Sentences with phrase «students in finland»

Figure 1 Comparison of devices used by students in Finland, Slovenia, the UK and the US when they read e-books

Comparison of devices used by students in Finland, Slovenia, the UK and the US when they read e-books

It's true that students in Finland, South Korea and Canada score better on mathematics tests.

If we relocated Waconda to Finland, the average student in Waconda would outperform 88 % of the students in Finland in math.

Fascinatingly, one in three students in Finland, at some stage of their schooling, will get extra support.

Are teenage students in Finland more likely to persevere with a problem than their counterparts in Australia?

Not exact matches

In a new post on his blog, Markus Kirjonen, a business student at Aalto University in Finland, listed some of Gates's most impressive forecastIn a new post on his blog, Markus Kirjonen, a business student at Aalto University in Finland, listed some of Gates's most impressive forecastin Finland, listed some of Gates's most impressive forecasts.

For instance, the primary school students I spoke with in Finland told me that they have only four hours of school on Fridays, and that they get a LOT of recess.

In a typical classroom in Finland, students work in small groupIn a typical classroom in Finland, students work in small groupin Finland, students work in small groupin small groups.

Seppo Kuukasjärvi of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and his colleagues asked 81 female students for details of their menstrual cycles and also whether they were taking contraceptive pills.

In addition to Belote and Pitnick, the article was co-authored by William T. Starmer, professor of biology at SU; Manier, a former SU research associate who is assistant professor of biology at the George Washington University; Stefan Lüpold, an SU research assistant professor; Kirstin S. Berben, an SU lab technician; Outi Ala - Honkola, a former SU postdoctoral fellow who is a biologist at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland); and William F. Collins» 12, a former student of Pitnick's who is a master's candidate at the Johns Hopkins» School of Advanced International Studies.

Aside from Lindqvist and Yang, who worked on the study for about 18 months, coauthors include Gradeigh D. Clark, a Rutgers graduate student, and Antti Oulasvirta of Aalto University in Finland.

It aims to provide information regarding disability support services in 17 European countries — Austria, Belgium (Fl), Belgium (Fr), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK — that may help students and their teachers make decisions about possibilities for study programmes and exchange activities.

They also encounter a more thoughtful objection, which goes something like this: American students are tested so much already — far more often than students in other countries, such as Finland and Singapore, which regularly place well ahead of the U.S. in international evaluations.

The bioinformatics expertise of Professor Harri Lähdesmäki, Ph.D. and his graduate student Tarmo Äijö in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the Aalto University School of Science in Aalto, Finland was essential to this effort, said Rao.

The study of more than 7,000 students in 77 elementary schools in Finland found that one program greatly benefited the mental health of sixth - graders who experienced the most bullying.

«Anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps the students who need it the most: Study reports on success of model used in Finland.»

The study's co-authors are Hannah Schacter, a UCLA graduate student in developmental psychology; Miia Sainio, a senior researcher at the University of Turku, in Finland; and Christina Salmivalli, a professor of psychology at the University of Turku and the developer of KiVa.

According to online resource Study in Europe, in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, and Sweden, national and E.U. students do not pay anything.

Starting in the late 1980s, University of Alabama researcher Ning Li published several papers on the subject, and in 1992 grad student Evgeny Podkletnov reported «gravity reduction» in his lab at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland.

The recipient of the February 2018 grant is Daria Blokhina, a PhD Student in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Helsinki in Finland!

A pregnant female ancestor could have arrived on the island from the islands of New Guinea or New Britain, lead author study author Valter Weijola, a graduate student at the University of Turku, Finland, said in a release.

The Bengali student was taken prisoner by the Pakistani girl's uncle, before her father, brother and cousin all joined in the attack, a court heard Finland (/ ˈ f ɪ n l ə n d / (listen); Finnish: Suomi (listen); Swedish: Finland), officially the Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta

In Finland they trust their teachers to know their students through collaboration, networking and partnerships.

The Normal School teaches about 550 students between the ages of 14 and 19, while also serving as one of 11 teacher practice schools in Finland.

Maria Puolakkainen, a high school student from Helsinki, Finland, was invited to share her own ideas and insights; read about her experiences in» #StuVoice Finland Shares the «Characteristics of an Effective Teacher».»

As I visit schools throughout Finland this week, I'm wondering if this notion of student voice transcends cultural boundaries and exists in high - performing countries such as Finland.

Having a consistent, sustained focus has allowed schools in Finland to adjust to meet the needs of students and local expectations, while not spending inordinate amounts of time responding to top - down mandates and regulations.

Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the academic - performance distribution, as is the case in countries with higher student achievement, such as Finland, Korea, and Singapore.

In Finland, every hour of teaching is punctuated by a 15 - minute break (in contrast, my students have a single 25 minute break, for lunch, in a nearly 7 - hour school dayIn Finland, every hour of teaching is punctuated by a 15 - minute break (in contrast, my students have a single 25 minute break, for lunch, in a nearly 7 - hour school dayin contrast, my students have a single 25 minute break, for lunch, in a nearly 7 - hour school dayin a nearly 7 - hour school day).

Children in South Korea, Canada, and Finland have a better chance of getting a good education and a lower chance of falling behind than do students in the United States, Germany, and Italy, according to the report by the United Nations Children's Fund.

The only external standardized test in Finland is the national Matriculation Examination, a high - stakes exam that determines college readiness and which all students are required to pass in order to graduate high school exit and enter university.

(Finland has half as many students as New York City, and only 13 percent live in poverty.)

But by training future educators to continuously inspire students to succeed, helping prospective teachers view curriculum from students» perspectives, and assisting students as they negotiate critical points in various disciplines, the teacher training methods in Finland continue to meet the needs of the next generation of students.

Indeed, the study shows that the percent proficient among U.S. students whose parents are college - educated or who are white is significantly less than the percent proficient among all students in countries such as Korea, Singapore, and Finland.

Its proficiency rate does not differ significantly (in a statistical sense) from that for all students in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand, but white students trail in reading by a significant margin all students in Shanghai, Korea, Finland, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

«The 42 percent math proficiency rate for U.S. white students trails behind all students in 17 other countries, among them Korea, Japan, Finland, Germany, Belgium, and Canada,» Peterson noted.

Although the U.S. student - to - computer ratio of 5 - to - 1 is tied for first in the world, some technology - oriented countries — such as Australia, Finland, and Iceland — have more than twice the percentage of school computers connected to the Internet that the United States does.

Maarit Rossi in Finland wonders if all classrooms might need a common «global curriculum,» and Carl Hooker in the United States writes, «if we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students.»

I read that to date, in those seven years, more than 150 000 students and 5000 teachers have taken part in the program in Finland.

The even better news is that, from a US point of view, high - performing nations include Australia, alongside Finland, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Singapore — whose students perform well on international measures such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

The 32 percent of U.S. students who achieved proficiency in math compares to 75 percent of students in Shanghai, 58 percent in Korea, and 56 percent in Finland.

Fifteen - year - old U.S. students ranked lower, on average, than their peers in 16 other countries, including those in Finland, Canada, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Ireland, out of 30 total industrialized nations, on the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

An average of three quarters of students feel they belong at school, and in some of the highest performing education systems, including Chinese Taipei, Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Finland, Korea, Estonia and Singapore that share is even higher.

Students in some of the countries that top the PISA league tables in science and maths report comparatively low satisfaction with life; but Finland, the Netherlands and Switzerland seem able to combine good learning outcomes and high satisfaction with life.

The HGSE team was seeking an opportunity to visit schools and speak with students, staff, and policymakers, in the hopes of distilling the secrets of Finland's educational success.

With some schools in Finland and the United States axing handwriting from their curriculums, National Stationery Week is encouraging students across the globe to develop a unique style of writing and discovering their own unique voice by putting pen to paper, proving that «Writing matters.»

Although one can not copy and paste Finland's educational system (or anyone else's) here in United States, there are certain concepts we can learn to become better at infusing more school trust, teacher / leader autonomy and student - centered offerings in today's American school.

While the countries achieved success in various ways, one of the countries, Finland, achieved academic success among its students by recruiting the best teachers...

Six percent of American students, but over 20 percent of the students in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Finland perform at the advanced level.