Sentences with phrase «student of the subject of»

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Adaptive learning software is quickly replacing the role of textbooks in the classrooms and students are tackling subjects with the aid of tailor - made computer programs that assist their needs.

Other students subjected to the same source of anger — but who did nothing to vent — later reported feeling «calm,» «happy,» and «relaxed.»

If any law students out there are looking for a great subject for a law review note, maybe this is it: With driverless cars, and almost no individual driving or ownership, an entire subset of American lawyers will be looking for somebody else to sue.

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

In fact, Arnold's research demonstrates that students who truly enjoy learning the most often struggle in school, where students must balance attention given to subjects about which they're truly passionate with the demands of their other coursework.

At Bowdoin College, the second - ranked liberal - arts school on our list, first - year students can choose from 35 first - year seminars and are required to take a course in each of five general subject areas.

Varsity Tutors» newest offering, called Instant Tutoring, aims to connect students with one of its 40,000 on - demand tutors in more 150 subjects in as little as 15 seconds.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Given the importance of physics and science, would it surprise you to learn that studies have shown that traditional introductory college classes can decrease students» conceptual understanding of the subject?

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

Their book explores questions of ethics and professionalism in the business world, and is aimed not just at business students but at anybody interested in a conversation on the subject.

Students work on one competency at a time, often a smaller learning goal that feeds into the bigger scope of the subject.

Citizens Bank private student loans are subject to credit qualification, completion of a loan application / consumer credit agreement, verification of application information, and — if applicable — self - certification form, school certification of loan amount, and student's enrollment at a Citizens Bank - participating school.

And while federal loans come with their own set of challenges and risks, all 1.37 million private loan borrowers are often subject to fewer protections and less flexible repayment plans than those offered under federal loan agreements.Less accommodating repayment options and more rigid terms can quickly lead to private student loan defaults, which is a dangerous financial place to be.

Postsecondary teachers instruct students in a wide variety of academic and technical subjects beyond the high school level.

HBS said its self - reported student numbers are based on a sample of the class at graduation and «is subject to change until finalized in the fall.»

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

One of the clever organizing tactics employed by the Parkland students was setting a date for a major rally at the end of March, meaning that they could continue to push on the subject for weeks leading up to that rally.

The story of the Bracero labor program can inspire students to explore a wide range of subjects, including immigration, history, geography, economy, and world culture.

William Dudley, President and CEO (Speaker) Date: Monday, April 3, 2017 Time: 10:30 AM EDT Subject: Opening Remarks Event: Economic Press Briefing on Household Borrowing, Student Debt Trends and Homeownership Location: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY

Several years ago, I led a series on the subject of forgiveness with college students when I was a seminary intern at my church.

As a history of its subject this book is likely to be the principal reference - point for students for a very long time.

In this same university no other single subject is required of all students of whatever school.

Such terms may be alien to the secular mindset, but they fit perfectly with the aims of the current Ofqual subject criteria in religious studies, which are to enable students to engage with religious beliefs intellectually and respond personally, and to enhance their spiritual and moral development.

It hardly needs pointing out that St. Thomas is not what most students of philosophy decide to concentrate on when they enter the subject these days.

The Sutton Trust has found excessive praise or grouping students by their ability doesn't aid learning, and that a teacher's knowledge of a subject is more likely to make a difference.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

Not much more than ten years ago a competent student of mine at the University of Chicago who had done good experimental work trying to help addicts wrote his B. D. essay on this subject.

To my knowledge, there is no other field in which graduate students, often at the point of their doctoral examinations, are expected to define their discipline — both its subject matter and the viable ways to approach it.

Both graduate students and new faculty say that they decided to pursue the doctorate in religion or theology because they became keenly interested in a subject — Bible or ethics or anthropology of religion.

NCSCM's experience reveals that seminary professors are often profoundly shaken by what they learn of ministry from interacting with our students, while many of our adjunct faculty, both clergy and lay, display superior teaching skills and understanding of their subject matter and contemporary ministry.

The student researches the subject simply for the purpose of getting a general knowledge of the groundwork of fact and theory, keeping a sense of wonder and interest in the newness.

Secondly the student proceeds to mastery of the relevant details; finally he or she puts together the whole subject in the light of relevant knowledge.

Fisher: Because students frequently change their subjects of academic interest, I think it's most important for students to consider the academic philosophy of the institutions to which they intend to apply.

The detailed knowledge of the Precision stage is kept from being «inert» because the student tests it against the knowledge learned in the Romance stage and against the background knowledge he or she brought to the subject originally.

The student will remain in the Precision stage of another subject if he or she can not «experience» it enough to lift it beyond the rules it embodies.

When a student approaches a new subject he or she has, at first, a general apprehension of its vague possibilities.

In this stage the student is allowed to enjoy a sense of adventure as he or she explores what a subject might have to offer.

Later students of the subject, including Kinsey's successors, are now inclined to include most of the men ranked at five and some of those at four in the blanket category «homosexual,» which of course considerably raises the predominantly homosexual proportion of the male population.

The great advantage of such an approach is that it constantly reminds students that ideas do not exist in a vacuum, that what can too easily be presented as immutable facts are subject to revision, that science quite as much as any other subject is liable to paradigm shifts.

The very rich (and thick) volume includes a biographical essay, a personal memoir by one of Torrance's students, now an Orthodox priest; nine substantial papers on subjects like St. Athanasius, the Divine Monarchia, and the rationality of the cosmos; a review of the letters between Torrance and Georges Florovsky; and two articles by Torrance himself, «The Relevance of Orthodoxy» and «The Orthodox Church in Great Britain.»

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The bill guarantees that teachers will not be subjected to discipline for challenging the science of evolution and climate change in class, and provides guidelines for discussing «the controversy» behind evolution and climate change with students.

The devices employed in early religion are familiar to every student of the subject.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

«Contrary to comments by GLSEN falsely labeling the Day of Truth as «inappropriate and divisive,» the event was always about the right of students to peacefully express their point of view on the subject of homosexual behavior,» the statement said.

When such issues are treated only in the opening and closing sections of a course, students tend to look on them as addenda «tacked on» to the main body of subject matter.

Many curriculums and pedagogics follow this assumption: that one begins with foundational courses that provide introductory materials and then directs students up the ladder, so to speak, in more and more advanced mastery of the subject matter.

The overarching and organizing goal of the university was to be research and teaching students how to do research; its goal was to be inquiry that aims to master the truth about whatever subject is studied.

Thus the student is subjected to a confusing amalgam of tradition and criticism, which also undercuts the tradition, as a rationale for the whole package of study.