Sentences with phrase «students research the problem»

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Whereas secondary schools teach students knowledge that is well established and no longer problematical, research universities, in Humboldt's words, «always treat knowledge as an as yet unresolved problem, and thus always stay at research.

They carry the picture with which everyone, schoolboy, student, engineer and research worker, operates in dealing with problems in his field.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

Both programs are based on scientific research into how students of various ages learn best and have allowed students to not only grow in their educational knowledge, but strengthen their problem - solving and critical thinking skills.

Research shows that students who eat breakfast score significantly higher on tests, miss fewer days of school and face fewer health problems related to hunger.

While students doing more hours of homework in the Challenge Success research seemed to be more engaged in school, they also suffered from physical health problems, sleep deprivation and a lack of balance in their lives, she said.

«Research shows that students perform better academically, have fewer discipline problems, and become more responsible adults when their parents are actively involved in their learning.»

Students from schools in the South West will become real - life engineers for a day when they research, design and build solutions to real engineering problems.

One of the main problems that I was confronted with on - site, and one which many social scientists encounter too, is that «traditional» Western theory and methodology adequately prepare undergraduate and graduate students for carrying out research in their own societies, but neither prepare them for dealing with difficult research circumstances, nor do they train students for conflict areas in post-traumatic societies.Such history (and political science) courses seem to be functional and have roots in European reality.

We are recruiting an outstanding student to undertake PhD research with the British Election Study (Professors Jane Green and Edward Fieldhouse) and the Hansard Society (Dr Ruth Fox), to analyse the factors governing the perceived problem of representation in politics.

Even as these students were forming their new network, NSF was developing an initiative to fund projects that connect far - flung research departments focusing on the same problems, with a special emphasis on international collaboration.

Knowing, upon starting his graduate studies, that he wanted to solve a real - world problem, Hackett chose his adviser, molecular pharmaceutics researcher Moo Cho, because Cho encouraged his students to pursue their own ideas instead of adding incrementally to an established research program.

The most commonly adopted procedure is that the student with a grievance should take it to the head of department or director of research, but this can sometimes make the problem even worse.

Analyzing longitudinal datasets (N = 2,926 and N = 1,255) of African American and Latino American college students Brannon's research demonstrates that such efforts to affirm identity is related to benefits among members of negatively stereotyped groups including better problem solving, increased task persistence, higher GPAs, and more positive health and well - being outcomes.

An unhappy student can create a lot of problems in a research group and cause considerable disruption and low morale.

The UK's Higher Education Funding Councils are working to improve the standards in research degree programmes so that standards for training, supervision arrangements, feedback mechanisms, and induction are brought in to help overcome the most serious problems faced by research students.

To address this problem, a research team led by Associate Professor Shunsuke Utsumi and a doctoral student Shinnosuke Kagiya of Hokkaido University studied genomic variation in a foundation tree species to predict an arthropod community.

The entire fellowship program centers on the research presentations, because it is through these that the ANDP realizes a return on its investment — insight into issues facing neuroscience graduate students and postdocs and, even better, some problem - solving ideas.

«This project that they did was my dream,» says Gerry Carter, a University of Maryland, College Park, graduate student who was not involved in the new research and who tackled a similar problem as an undergraduate.

The information interpreting, data analysis, and problem solving they did as Ph.D. students were important in research and nonresearch positions alike, a recently published survey of 3803 science and engineering Ph.D. s shows.

The 20 Challenges, addressed by a team of education experts, range from «Enable students to build on their own enduring, science - related interests» to «Shift incentives to encourage education research on the real problems of practice as they exist in school settings.»

Doug Dluzen, currently a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State University, says that he works in a fairly large lab where there are outlets to discuss research problems, and strategies, and «generally there is someone who has stumbled upon a problem before — being able to discuss my issues can be very helpful when troubleshooting an assay or transfection in the early stages of the experiments.»

In a final year project, MChem undergraduate student Edward Howe, working in Professor David Smith's research team in the Department of Chemistry at York looked for a way of eliminating the adverse side - effects associated pain - killing drugs, particularly in the stomach, and the problems, such as ulceration, this could cause patients.

«Parental involvement and direct supervision were both associated with fewer peer problems and less online victimization for teens, but neither of these factors correlated with the use of parental control apps,» said Arup Kumar Ghosh, a doctoral student in UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who conducted this research as part of his dissertation.

The problem has only one solution, and it's the one every new PI must choose: Bring in graduate students, technicians, and postdocs, in a proportion that suits you and your research, and trust them to get the lab work done.

Van Avendonk mentioned this problem during a casual conversation with Joshua «Bud» Davis, a Ph.D. student in UTIG's plate tectonics research group and co-author, who said that the group could investigate both of the explanations using computer models of plate movement since the Jurassic and a global database of hotspots.

Listening is essential for determining whether the student will fit in on the mentor's research team and is critical in ensuring that a research problem is well suited to the student's abilities and potential.

Besides learning research techniques and problem - solving skills, students can use the time to chat with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty about science and scientific careers.

Research institutions are experiencing a surge of innovative interdisciplinary initiatives aimed at bringing together students, postdocs, and faculty from different departments to solve complex problems in ways that they have never tried before.

An additional advantage of continuing patient interaction is that our students no longer have the problem of reintegrating into the clinic after being away during their dissertation research.

Students often choose to do their dissertation research in a laboratory, conducting basic science research with distant ties to human diseases or clinical problems.

Following an extended period of dissertation research, students face the difficult problem of reintegrating themselves into clinical training, after three or more years away from clinical medicine and patient contact.

Once the students graduate and start doing research, the problems continue: to exactly determine the state of some quantum system in an experiment, one has to carefully prepare it and make lots of measurements, over and over again.

For students, it's «totally acceptable» to ask a senior researcher who isn't your own supervisor about your problem, says Rebecca Voorhees, who has just finished a Ph.D. and is now a postdoc in Ramakrishnan's research group.

Previous research has shown that incorporating these programs into the classroom improves learning outcomes and reduces anxiety and behavioural problems among students.

«There's a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that student mobility poses serious problems for the students who change schools, as well as their schools, teachers and even peers who do not change schools,» said Ruth López Turley, an associate professor of sociology at Rice and director of the Houston Education Research Consortium.

This would remove some of the problems of «honorary authorship» by, for example, the supervisor of a research student.

The emphasis on interdisciplinary research provides unique opportunities for bioinformatics students both to develop novel computational techniques and to apply them to biological problems.

They may assign a high - risk research problem that may jeopardize the career of a graduate student.

It was... a «people and data» problem that required maturity and commercial confidence,» which Hope had plenty of even back when he was an undergraduate, writes O'Keefe, who today supervises postgraduate research students jointly with Hope, in an email to Science Careers.

The problem is that this stress is chronic and leads to impairment of cognitive functioning,» explains research student Yifat Segev, who undertook the study together with Dr. Iliana Barrera and additional colleagues from Prof. Rosenblum's laboratory and researchers from the medical school in Bergen, Norway.

However, this would create difficult problems with regard to shortages of space and research supervisors, not to mention problems in providing funding for the additional numbers of graduate students.

First - year graduate students (especially if they come directly from an undergraduate program) often idolize their advisers and quickly learn to emulate their style of research, problem solving, and perspective on science.

In addition, the researchers note that future research on student alcohol use may want to further consider how drinking occurs in tandem with other behaviors that could cause students problems.

Research from North Carolina State University and Ohio University finds that having an «alcohol identity» puts college students at greater risk of having drinking problems — and that posting about alcohol use on social media sites is actually a stronger predictor of alcohol problems than having a drink.

Dead - end projects, technical problems, difficult students, a lack of funding, reviewers who delay publications, competitors who scoop you, and personal hardships can eat away at enthusiasm over time, says Erwin Wagner, one of the vice-directors of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid.

According to the research, led by Dr. Belle Gavriel - Fried of TAU's School of Social Work and conducted by TAU student Idit Sherpsky, in collaboration with Dr. Israel Bronstein of Bar - Ilan University, the participation of male high - school students in competitive sports is associated with problem gambling and gambling frequency, and female students who participate in competitive sports are at a higher risk of gambling frequency.

According to the research findings, the use of technology changes the role of the teacher from a traditional knowledge provider rather into a facilitator guiding the students» learning processes and engaging in joint problem - solving with the students.

We aim to educate students to address real - world problems through a combination of classroom learning, seminars, and hands - on field and laboratory research opportunities.

These students and faculty work on a broad spectrum of research problems that share at least one of the four goals of Bio-X: to image and simulate life from molecules to mind, to restore the health of cells and tissues, to decode the genetics of health and disease, and to design therapeutic devices and molecular machines.