This chapter provides ideas for helping students to
see the relationship between effort and achievement.
Not exact matches
You're simply more likely to
see a clear cause - and - effect
relationship between effort and outcome in sports than in school.
«I believe that students learn most when they can
see the
relationship between education and issues they care about, and the capacity to solve problems is developed through exercise,» Reimers says, noting that students are invited to select policy challenges that are relevant to them in an
effort to help develop policy analysis skills.
For our analysis of the
relationship between district improvement
efforts and state influences (
see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.
Among other things, reinforcing
effort means that students
see a direct
relationship between how hard they work and how much they learn.
Frustrated and bored with that what he
saw as the tedious constraints of that idiom, Baldessari scrapped it early on in his career, turning his
efforts instead to «phototext» works that muddy the distinction
between photography and painting, questioning the
relationship between visual and verbal language.
I've
seen fascinating
efforts lately to use new software and graphics tools to visualize sets of data ranging from flights over the United States in a 24 - hour period to patterns of obesity onset and weight loss in the Framingham heart study to work charting
relationships between child mortality, income and fertility rates.
Upon
seeing efforts to establish
relationships between various climate variables and NATL hurricane activity one is tempted to quote John von Neumann who said of fitting
relationships with various parameters, «with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk» (as related in Dyson, 2004).