Sentences with phrase «specifically at academic»

The researchers looked specifically at academic and behavioral outcomes.

Not exact matches

On the academic side, Northwestern sponsors several opportunities for innovation, including two startup incubators and a certificate program in entrepreneurship specifically targeted at undergraduates.

The Chad Leat Student Scholarship fund is specifically for undergrads at the University of Kansas, Lawrence campus who can demonstrate academic success, financial need and a commitment to fostering multiculturalism on campus.

She specifically looks at students who have shown long - term success in their academic and life trajectories.

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

Students and academics at Oxford University in the U.K. have founded a new publication, The Journal of Interrupted Studies, specifically devoted to giving a platform to notable work created in exile.

At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.

Over the past decade, my research has focused on the academic, social, and civic development of immigrant youth, specifically the ways in which schools Chief Architect and Vice President of Innovation, Phill Lawson - Shanks, to Present at The 6th Annual Provider Forum on Financing & Investing in Data Centers

Individual counseling specifically addresses social - emotional issues that might hinder the student from performing at his or her maximum academic potential.

At the higher education level specifically, the free and open exchange of ideas is central to the academic mission, and even private institutions, which can theoretically censor speech, typically enact policies protecting free speech.

Specifically, the proposed regulations provide that the additional K — 12 indicator (s) that a state uses can not «change the identity of schools that would otherwise be identified» unless a school is making «significant progress» on at least one of the academic indicators — test scores, graduation rate, additional K — 8 academic indicator, and EL progress.

The bill specifically prevents the federal government from requiring that states evaluate teachers at all, much less use test scores to rate them, and says the education secretary can not dictate any specific academic standards to states.

We work specifically with groups of pupils currently under - represented in higher education, who have the academic potential, but lack the confidence, knowledge or support to get into and stay at university.

This single - day training session, to be held at The Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, will provide an overview of the state charter petition process and discuss ways in which stakeholders can develop a strong charter petition, specifically focusing on school governance, academic and financial accountability, and community engagement.

Looking specifically at Wisconsin, a private high school costs about $ 8,200 for the 2017 - 2018 academic year while an elementary school year can cost about $ 3,100.

The Equity Rating measures how well a school serves the academic development of all students, looking specifically at: 1) the performance level of disadvantaged students on state tests in comparison to the state average for all students, and 2) in - school performance gaps between disadvantaged students and other students.

According to the study, which looked at teachers» perceptions of student behavior as well as academic performance for both black and Latino students, the only significant area where mismatch played a role for Latino children — and Spanish - speakers specifically — was in early literacy skills for non-English-proficient students (assessed in Spanish).

In a recent press release, the Italian automaker didn't specifically mention the names of the three models that they are planning on releasing, but it's all pretty academic at this point unless they have something up their sleeves that we've never seen before.

The books below lay out the history of graphic novels, their standing among the arts, and the most current academic thinking on their utility today, specifically at an educational mindset with an eye toward the concerns and thoughts of librarians.

to introduce students to sustainability in sculpture practice, specifically «Earth Clay» or Cob Plaster Building 2011 Academic Senate Travel Grant, for exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg Inc..

In the paper, published in Environmental Research Letters, an academic journal, Geoffrey Supran, a postdoctoral fellow, and Professor Naomi Oreskes, both of the department of the history of science at Harvard University, analyzed the texts of documents covering a period between 1977 and 2014, which have been made publicly available by the company, specifically focusing on advertorials.

He (Mann) stated that he never deleted emails at the behest of any other scientist, specifically including Dr. Phil Jones, and that he never withheld data with the intention of obstructing science; and he stated that he never engaged in activities or behaviors that were inconsistent with accepted academic practices.

From the perspective of an academic law librarian, and after having heard from and spoken to law librarians from many sectors last month at CALL, I'd say you've pointedly and accurately summed up our concerns about looseleaf titles generally and, specifically, about their supplementation.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking... [more]

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking for an orientation to our legal system and advice on the best way to prove that income tax is illegal, or substitute whichever conspiracy theory you like in here.

We set up the regression model with two variable groups at individual and family levels: Model 1 includes only independent variables belonging to personal characteristics of children, specifically including age; self - esteem; educational stages / level of school; self - assessment of academic performance; self - assessment of life success.

Note: The Multiscale Dissociation Inventory, although not an unpublished test, is now available at no charge to academic researchers or graduate students supervised by a licensed psychologist, or clinicians specifically licensed to perform psychological testing in their state or province.