Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren aged»

The report is a multi-nation study of online child safe - ty and digital citizenship, based on a sample size of 34,000 schoolchildren aged between eight and 12 years, across 29 coun - tries.

The works are a part of a long - term project where Murillo attaches canvases to the desks of schoolchildren aged 10 to 16 years.

It is the public examination in the range of subjects for the schoolchildren aged 16 years old.

Teacher Evaluations of Executive Functioning in Schoolchildren Aged 9 — 12 and the Influence of Age, Sex, Level of Parental Education

The report also includes a study of schoolchildren aged 13 - 14 from four EU countries which found exposure to alcohol sports sponsorship through viewing a major football tournament was linked to 70 % increased chance of underage drinking.

Not exact matches

The age - old distinction between schoolchildren and university students is fast losing its meaning.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

Amongst Welsh schoolchildren in Year 10 (age 14 - 15), awareness of alcohol sports sponsorship was linked to a 17 % higher chance of boys, and 13 % higher chance of girls, getting drunk at the weekend.

A prospective study examined data on more than 300,000 Danish schoolchildren — born between 1930 - 1989 who were examined at ages 7, 10 and 13.

Blood samples were taken from 493 schoolchildren, aged between seven and nine years, from 74 mainstream schools in Oxfordshire.

Analyzing survey data from almost 6,000 UK secondary schoolchildren (aged 11 - 16) from communities with traditionally low science engagement, the authors investigated who participates in science learning outside of the classroom.

The story of Bletchley Park's Codebreakers will fascinate schoolchildren of all ages and there is no better way to learn about their work than in the capable and inspiring hands of the heritage attraction's learning department.

About the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual - arts instruction are offered as a decade ago — a proportion that accounts for only about half the nation's schoolchildren at that age.

Last month I suggested that grouping New York City schoolchildren by age rather than ability would address two issues that stymie the NYC Department of Education: strict birthday cut - offs that ignore readiness and the perennial shortage of Gifted and Talented seats.

At age 71, Romer is enthusiastic about his new responsibilities for the district's 700,000 schoolchildren.

Kozol's uniquely passionate take on urban schools and urban schoolchildren has been documented in such books as Death at an Early Age and, more recently, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope.

Tasmania's State Government has moved to allay concerns that the proposed new starting age for schoolchildren could be detrimental to kids» health.

Today, at age 35, Stevens is on a quest to make those miracles available to millions of schoolchildren whose parents can't afford one - on - one therapy.

In total, 7 % of schoolchildren were educated in the independent sector, while 14 % of sixth - formers - those aged 16 and over - attended an ISC school, the council said.

For the following persons Children / young people aged 16 or under, students of art schools, students of art history, school classes from Cantons BS / BL, schoolchildren who are researching projects or preparing course content, anyone accompanying a person with disabilities, teachers for the preparation of classes, journalists (with press card), staff of Basel Museums.

All told, there are an estimated 4.2 million American schoolchildren, ages 5 to 14, who live in regions with significant earthquake risk.

Of 240 schoolchildren who were assessed at 5 — 12 years of age, the parents of 218 children (91 %) and the teachers of 224 children (93 %) completed questionnaires.

In schoolchildren, parents and teachers completed questionnaires which included a modified Rutter questionnaire and an item on mental age; hyperactivity was assessed in the teacher questionnaire using 7 items from the Conners teacher rating scale.

What is the extent and nature of social, emotional and behavioural difficulty among Scottish schoolchildren around the age they enter primary one?

These findings reflect those of a study conducted in Finland among schoolchildren, which found that children with widespread pain reported more emotional and behavioural problems than those without pain, and showed that tiredness during the day was a risk factor for the persistence of pain.18 Furthermore, a recent study of children aged 3 — 17 years attending a medical practice in Australia found that children experiencing frequent abdominal pain were more likely to be anxious and experience sleep disturbances when compared to children with no abdominal pain.19

Data from the U.S. Department of Education show that African American schoolchildren of all ages are more than three times more likely to be suspended and expelled than their non-Hispanic white peers.

Longitudinal studies in schoolchildren have found symptom continuity for both anxiety disorders and ADHD, although with varied subtypes at different ages [12, 13, 14].