Sentences with phrase «students by subject»

These sources of information tell us the general achievements of a specific student or a group of students by subject, time period, grade level, or other grouping.

4 states prohibit proficiency - based promotion or the advancement of students by subject, and 14 states leave decisions to school districts.

Not exact matches

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.»

Specializations solve a major pain point for students, namely, that it's tough to master a subject by taking a random course in that subject.

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.

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.

Education and Training professionals act as facilitators to learning by using classroom or virtual presentations or individual instruction to help students learn complex subjects.

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.

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 good thing about all this was that students were fulfilling their lives as subjects and not as objects manipulated by a system.

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.»

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.

In fact, all students and especially young people deeply appreciate and value academic discipline if by discipline we mean both the subject - matter to be studied and some set requirements in the mastering of it.

I can not but think that the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science is the discovery, first made in 1886, that, in certain subjects at least, there is not only the consciousness of the ordinary field, with its usual centre and margin, but an addition thereto in the shape of a set of memories, thoughts, and feelings which are extra-marginal and outside of the primary consciousness altogether, but yet must be classed as conscious facts of some sort, able to reveal their presence by unmistakable signs.

The announced purpose of the policy» to promote critical thinking by students on the subject of the origin of life» was a sham.

When a student learns math from a human teacher, the fire of love for the teacher is limited by whatever the nature of the relationship is, and the fire of love for the subject may well be limited by intelligence.

An impression one gains from many teachers of these subjects as well as from their students, is that often now a robust sense of Church is accompanied by great willingness to enter into conversation with secular society.

Science teachers must make their subject relevant to students» lives by tackling religion and ethics, argues Arri Eisen.

She helps out at school by tutoring other students in various subjects, and is viewed by her peers as a leader and a supportive person who is willing to help people out at the expense of her own studying.

Students» course selection is extrinsically motivated, forming a sameness among students who participate in the Game: courses considered easy and titled AP or post-AP receive high enrollment by students who do not necessarily hold interest in the Students» course selection is extrinsically motivated, forming a sameness among students who participate in the Game: courses considered easy and titled AP or post-AP receive high enrollment by students who do not necessarily hold interest in the students who participate in the Game: courses considered easy and titled AP or post-AP receive high enrollment by students who do not necessarily hold interest in the students who do not necessarily hold interest in the subject.

Throughout OSPI there is the concept that, although our School Child Nutrition Programs are not for profit but to feed students, we should be cutting costs as a priority over what is sometimes recognized as good nutrition — a subject where many entrenched and trendy ideas prevail and are promoted by giant food manufacturers.

These subjects, taught by the Class Teacher or a specialist beginning in First Grade (unless otherwise specified), enrich the student experience with offerings that include:

Learn more about our unique approach to engaging students through their heads (intellectual involvement in a subject), hands (experiencing a subject by doing), and hearts (living into a subject in an emotional sense to connect it to a broader narrative), fostering the desire for lifelong learning.

But these are all either run by the school catering staff themselves or, if bought in, then are still subject to the same rules as the school caterer in terms of availability to all students (on free meals or not) and in terms of the nutritional standards.

Ultimately, the needs of the student are met by the Waldorf curriculum itself; in addition to the class teacher, the students experience continuity and expertise through involvement with subject teachers who teach handwork, movement and games, a world language, eurythmy, sculptural arts, gardening, music, and fine arts.

1 out of 5 STEM college students decided to study STEM in middle school or earlier because their interest in the subjects was sparked by a teacher or interest in a subject matter.

«By slashing the teaching grant and making students foot the bill we will see whole subject areas starved of public funds and possibly forced to close.»

Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham)(Con): Staying on the subject of higher education, may we also have a debate about Members of the House who are supporting direct action by students?

He pointed out we are yet to see the new wave of students graduate with higher debt levels than ever and there are still «serious questions» over how increased costs are impacting on the subjects chosen by students.

In the wake of numerous «bogus college» scandals, the tightening of the student rules under Tier (4), which is also due to be the subject of a separate report by the NAO, will require all institutions to hold «highly trusted» sponsor status.

The minister expressed concern of the government over the low interest in Mathematics and the science subjects by students.

Staff and students are subject to «interrogation - style» interviews, with a mindset described by one teacher as «guilty until proven innocent».

The sign was paid for by the Young Advocates for Fair Education, which has pushed city education officials to investigate yeshivas for allegedly failing to educate their students in nonsecular subjects like science, math and English.

All the usual contemporary justifications for the subject of RE in the school curriculum — its contribution to social cohesion and mutual understanding, its presentation of a range of answers to questions of meaning and purpose, and its role in the search for personal identity and values — can best be served by including humanist perspectives and non-religious students.

«Aside from that, both principal and subject teachers should be enjoined to ensure that they give the desired guidance to the students on the proper use of Opon Imo in the sense that whoever for any reason among the beneficiaries (students) misapply its uses, it will attract N50, 000 fine and this is backup by legislation of the Osun State House of Assembly.

Financial incentives of up to # 20,000 per student to attract the best graduates into teaching subjects such as maths, chemistry, physics and computer science in Wales, have been announced by Education Secretary Kirsty Williams (Mon 3rd April).

The minimum stipend for Research Council students has increased to # 9000 in 2003 - 04 and is set to rise further, to # 12,000 by 2005 - 6, with up to # 13,000 on offer to students in subject areas such as the physical sciences where there is a shortage of PhD candidates.

Lack of familiarity with these subjects by students and their parents hampers efforts to recruit minority students into graduate studies or careers in these fields.

In the next group, a second student learned how to make the tools by simply watching the first subject and trying to duplicate what he or she did with no interaction at all between them; in the third group, subjects actively showed each other what they were doing but without gesturing; in the fourth group, gesturing and pointing were allowed but no talking; and in the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessary.

To investigate, researchers from the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, led by Amir Bashan, PhD, and Yang - Yu Liu, PhD, analyzed data from large metagenomic datasets (e.g. the Human Microbiome Project and Student Microbiome Project) to look at the dynamics of the gut, mouth and skin microbiomes of healthy subjects.

To avoid having classroom discussion dominated by students who feel more confident about the subject, for example, teachers use index cards to call on every student in the class.

Teachers respond by attempting to teach a topic a week, says education professor Marcia Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, an adviser to the TIMSS study, but that approach «denies students the opportunity to find out what it is like to have a deep understanding of any subject.»

A levels alone are not appropriate, for they force students to specialise by studying only three or four, subjects.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

The change creates an opportunity to raise what the report labels the «low levels of post-16 participation in science and mathematics» by encouraging students to continue their studies even if they are not planning to major in those subjects at college or attend university at all.

Lesley Duncan, one of Schaller's graduate students at the University of British Columbia, tested this hypothesis by showing a group of test subjects pictures of two men.

«There has been very little change in the level of interest in STEM or the mastery of STEM subjects by U.S. students in the past few decades,» Wieman testified before the same panel that had approved his OSTP nomination in 2010.