Sentences with phrase «students on academic research»

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As part of the application process, entrepreneurs must enter into a collaborative agreement with UMSL that describes how they will further the mission and goals of UMSL (such as by hiring or mentoring students, developing programs, contributing to academic research, etc., depending on school needs).

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Private universities can easily do pure research on whatever topic they want, tempered by the demands of academics, students, and donors.

Under the law universities can employ postgraduate students on an hourly basis, to assist with academic, lecturing, or research tasks, and some PhD students partly finance themselves in this way.

This is to become a reality for all Research Council PhD students and postdocs on Research Council grants, with all HEIs receiving extra funding from this academic year to provide this additional training.

A recent study on the career preferences of science graduate students, published in PLoS ONE, has attracted a lot of attention for one of its conclusions: that student interest in academic research careers declines over the course of graduate school.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

Was Miller troubled by specific transgressions of particular employers or by the deep and pervasive dysfunctional nature of the «pyramid» system of academic research, which depends on the systematic exploitation of cheap graduate student and postdoc labor?

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

Both documents require students to give contact information, academic history, research experience, test scores, and so on.

On a positive note: «Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said study co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

The research looks simultaneously at the importance of a number of college characteristics including cost, reputation, academic facilities and recreational facilities, and bases findings not just on students» stated preferences but compares them with the actual choices they make.

While a raft of past research focused on factors that enable the academic failure of young black men, the special issue spotlights key academic and social factors — both positive and negative — that affect black students, through the eyes and in the words of the students themselves.

[citation needed] Many graduate students feel that teaching takes time that would better be spent on research, and many point out that there is a vicious circle in the academic labor economy.

By partnering with Science Buddies to create Project Ideas based on your research, you can help inspire thousands of students, annually, while meeting your own academic outreach and research grant funding needs.

Naffziger, Richardson - Stovall, Williams, McGee, Beyond Mentoring — Academic Career Coaching as a Supplement to the Traditional Training of Biomedical PhD Students, 5th Annual Conference on Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Research Careers, May 2012

Whether students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.

However, a declining interest in a faculty research career may also imply a greater divergence between students» interests on the one hand, and the academic orientation of traditional PhD curricula as well as advisor expectations on the other [8].

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Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

The partnership's research builds on educator Howard Gardner's seminal theory of multiple intelligences to indicate that arts education — including the visual arts, dance, music, and drama — enhances a student's ability to acquire core academic skills.

Most schools have their share of math and science students who ace standardized tests, thrive during classroom discussions, and excel on independent research projects — who, in short, conquer every academic task thrown their way.

The research on grit is compelling for educators: students with high levels of grit are more successful in both academic and non-academic pursuits.

For example, a few years ago, Light researched how many hours a week students at various schools work on academics outside of class.

For academically at - risk students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools since kindergarten and who have experienced educational opportunities that are basically similar in design and practice, research suggests that a classroom - wide, universal approach focused on building up academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge would be appropriate.

The past decade has seen a relative surge in research conducted in urban, underperforming schools focused on doing exactly this — providing students with deep, language - and content - based instruction, with a focus on teaching both specialized vocabulary and the specialized structures of language in academic speech and text.

This being the case, it is surprising how little research has been conducted to understand the effect of this transition on a student's long - term academic, social and emotional wellbeing, and what action can be taken in response.»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

These charges seemed odd, given that the best studies available on the subject — from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)-- show that Michigan charter students make large academic gains relative to similar students at district schools, particularly in Detroit.

On the eighth - grade academic research residency, students use their language skills to engage Japanese natives in conversation.

Few realize that Coleman himself saw that work as a «detour» from his main line of research on how academic games could be used to foster student engagement, effort, and — ultimately — achievement.

Since joining Harvard College Library in 2007, Fliss has achieved closer collaboration and partnerships between its libraries and in supporting the academic mission of the FAS with focus on curricular support programs and partnerships that support teaching, learning and research through direct services to faculty and students.

Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.

Despite the need to keep the focus on academic achievement, the Teacher Advancement Program acknowledges that research has identified pedagogical methods that help students learn, so it includes evaluation of classroom skills as part of its teacher compensation system.

Students pursue a course of study that promotes development of interdisciplinary thinking and research analysis skills and allows for customization based on the academic and professional goals of each individual.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

Jeppesen says linking up with the academic has enabled the school to reflect on how it harnesses trust and student voice in teacher - student relationships and adds that embarking on a research and learning journey that spans the globe is particularly exciting.

The research - focused MBE students arrive with highly diverse academic backgrounds and often go on to complete doctoral work in the field.

Much research has been done on the battle between pen and paper versus the keyboard: Some research shows a positive effect on (academic) performance when students use pen and paper.

This is obviously a ripe area for further investigation and analysis, but today it's legitimate to observe, even on the basis of this limited research, that the burden is shifting to the schools and their supporters to measure and make public whatever academic benefit they do bestow on their students versus what similar young people learn in other settings.

In a 17 - page paper published recently by Learn Inc., a Washington - based policy - research organization, Mr. Walberg said Chapter 1 (formerly Title I) money has not raised the academic achievement of needy students and has often been spent on students who are not poor.

Not surprisingly, research shows that disciplining students by removing them from class has long - term negative outcomes on their academic success.

13) Academic Excellence in 140 Characters This is a video created by one of Rey Junco's students to summarize the research we conducted on the effects of Twitter on student engagement and grades.