Sentences with phrase «students over that time period»

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To make time for other work and life commitments, students take classes just one weekend per month over a 21 - month period at the UNBC campus in Prince George or the Langara College campus in Vancouver.

However, there is the risk that the variable interest rate will be much higher if the average student loan interest rate has risen significantly after the set period of time is over.

In addition, if you work as a federal employee or for a specific not - for - profit employer, such as a teachers, lawyers, or doctors, you may be eligible for student loan forgiveness after making consistent payments over a set period of time.

While most of us know great accomplishments require hard work over long periods of time, many are tempted to believe graduate school can automatically launch eager students into dream careers where passions and skills relentlessly thrive.

A French exchange student of mine in the 90s had me ship 1 kg jars of the stuff over to her for a period of time because she fell so in love with it while in Canada.

and Whereas a predictable tuition plan allows students and families to plan over a five - year time period;

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

Students feel that the surya namaskaras, A's and B's, are very difficult at first, but over a period time, they strengthen both physically and mentally.

In this psychological horror movie, an art student begins to seriously question his sanity after a terrifying nightmare recurs over a long period of time.

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

It examined a larger number of students over a longer period of time with more in - depth data than many earlier studies, allowing for a deeper look at how much the quality of individual teachers matters over the long term, the Times reported.

This teacher - friendly format makes it so easy to see how students are doing over an extended period of time.

According to NYLC, service - learning is defined as student programs organized in relation to a specific academic course or curriculum, with clearly stated learning objectives that address real community needs in a sustained manner over a period of time.

The school's percentage of students proficient or advanced in math has grown four times more than the state's over the same period, and five times more in reading.

Betty Kistler's sixth grade students used the Internet to obtain weather in a country they were studying in - depth over a period of time; they then used Excel to record and compare the weather in that country to their own.

Teachers kept records of students» marks over the time period of the project.

As such, he argues that, if our results are correct and school spending really does improve student outcomes (with larger effects for low - income children), outcomes should have improved over time and achievement gaps by income should have been eliminated over this time period.

Yet some may wonder about the potential cost of this focus on higher - achieving students, for whom improvements over the same time period have been modest.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Unfortunately, these questions will remain unanswerable until we have better ways of tracking student debt by race over a longer period of time.

In a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did not.

Test - retest reliability over short periods of time is the preeminent psychometric question for report card items because the data are not useful if scores that teachers generate for individual students on individual items are unstable during a period of time in which it is unlikely that the student has changed.

The improvement in the median reading score for those students entering 3rd grade is smaller than the NAEP increase for 4th graders over the same time period.

Gains among Texas fourth graders were sustained over a longer period of time, but also show evidence of little growth since 2005, with Hispanic and the lowest - performing students actually scoring lower in the latest assessments than in 2007.

Over this time period, other populations, such as Hispanic and Asian students, have gained enrollment share (see Figure 1c below).

Moreover, these general statistics mask the fact that much of this increase has gone to special education, a sector that has dramatically expanded and substantially improved the lives of millions of students with disabilities over this time period.

The focus of the project was to further develop the concept of a language challenge, in which teachers, students and businesses worked together not for a day, but over a sustained period of time.

Applying effort over a sustained period: Education systems that have not been designed to recognise and respond to the needs and contexts of Indigenous students will take time to adjust.

The three together make a positive impact on the students over a longer period of time.

The students will develop a broad understanding on the evolution of music and music instruments over a large time period.

Administrators can use this taxonomy to consider the bigger picture of how your school's curriculum on the whole — and the projects that it contains — can help move students» critical media skills «up the ladder» over a longer period of time.

Student performance in nine countries declined over the same 14 - year time period.

This activity should extend over a substantial period of time, even an academic year, serving as a fulcrum for integration of the knowledge and skills students are gaining in their academic studies.

A general challenge is to redesign teaching and learning in ways that recognise and respond to the very different stages that students are at in their learning, set stretch challenges for every learner and monitor learning progress over extended periods of time.

Stigler and Hiebert note that, rather than reform, the aim of lesson study is to produce «small, incremental improvements over long periods of time» and however long the process there remains «an unrelenting focus on student learning».

Second, the comparatively steady gain in adjusted scores over the period provides evidence of improvements in instructional quality, independent of changes in the amount of time students were in class.

Service learning is student programming organized in relation to a specific academic course or curriculum, with clearly stated learning objectives that address real community needs in a sustained manner over a period of time.

iEARN and the National Geographic Kids Network are examples of programs that connect students so they can work together on projects over an extended period of time.

At one time, internationally comparable information on student performance was not available for a sufficient number of countries over a long enough period of time to allow for systematic study, which is why economists relied upon the less informative measures of school attainment.

Teachers can start with a very short period of time — even 30 seconds — and lengthen this golden moment over time, as the students are ready and able.

A more even distribution also relieves the pressure on schools and teachers when large numbers of immigrant students arrive over a short period of time.»

Project - based learning is a teaching method which involves students exploring in - depth problems over a longer period of time.

You tweet the first line and have students tweet a certain number of lines over a determined period of time, then read the finished story in class.

Because progress in most areas of learning occurs over extended periods of time, it is important to be able to track the long - term progress that students make.

«Studying multiple rounds of mailings over a longer time period could improve understanding of the impact of messaging content on student absences, of any cumulative effect of multiple messaging, and of differences between the effects of messages on elementary and secondary school students, if any.»

By following and surveying ninth - through 12th - grade students three times over a period of two years, and by using social network analysis, the researchers hope to develop a greater understanding of how we make friends and what that means for our identities.

You then might award a prize to the student who makes the most words from the day's letter tiles, and / or create a chart on which to track student results over a month, a quarter, or a longer period of time.

Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest - performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.

When deciding whether to admit a student, colleges more heavily weigh grades over standardized tests like the ACT and SAT, because they show a student's performance over a period of time rather than on a particular day.

Further, another respected international assessment of student performance, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), found gains of only 0.5 percent of a standard deviation annually for U.S. students over roughly the same time student performance, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), found gains of only 0.5 percent of a standard deviation annually for U.S. students over roughly the same time Student Assessment (PISA), found gains of only 0.5 percent of a standard deviation annually for U.S. students over roughly the same time period.