Sentences with phrase «students than their colleagues»

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I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

I advise my scientific colleagues and students to become more political rather than less so, because it is impossible to separate science from politics when government funding is a primary factor for promotion and tenure in academia.

In a debate in the Scottish parliament, he insisted that action needed to be taken to secure medical school places for Scottish students, who were more likely to stay in the country to practice than their English colleagues.

Apparently the students were much better at persuading him round to keeping «first past the post» than his erstwhile parliamentary colleagues.

BY ANDY HUMM City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

It is going to make health professionals bitter because our colleagues employed into the Ghana Health Service will be taking more than us,» said Richard Osei Yeboah, the National health students Association of Ghana.

While I thought no one could work harder than my colleagues and I did as graduate students and postdocs, young lawyers work very hard.

And students report that when it comes to getting help on their term papers and so on, women are more generous with their time than their male colleagues.

Veliz and colleagues analyzed data from more than 13,088 adolescents in the 2016 Monitoring the Future survey, a national study by U-M funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that tracks U.S. students in grades 8, 10 and 12.

In the first of three studies for their recent paper, Ehrlinger and her colleagues found that students who hold a fixed mindset about intelligence were more overconfident about their performance on a multiple - choice test than those with a growth mindset.

In the new work, graduate student Nathaniel Butler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and his colleagues used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to probe an August 2002 burst less than a day after it happened.

Although they voiced more negative opinions about unionization than their nonscientist colleagues did, their actual experiences «teaching and advising [unionized] students... were no different than in the humanities or social sciences.

This can create pressure for a postdoc or grad student during an oral or poster presentation, but Duina claims that some of this energy can be saved for meeting new colleagues: «I think it is a well - known fact that usually one gets different kinds of information out of talking to people in an informal setting, i.e., over lunch or dinner, than while attending talks or surfing the poster exhibits.»

I can not fully account for the difference between the paper and electronic logbooks, but I suspect that it has to do with (a) the fact that students read each other's entries and saw how much their colleagues progressed, and (b) the fact that I naturally respond at greater length when I type than when I scribble in the margins.

In a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple University and her colleagues revealed that students who had experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide trauma.

Schumacher and his students and colleagues, including lead co-author Christine Godwin, measured the brain patterns of more than 100 people while they lay in an MRI machine.

Lee and her colleagues conducted a series of four experiments involving more than 750 participants, including university students and managers who make hiring decisions in the real world.

«Discovery» learning, in which students discover facts for themselves rather than receiving them directly from an instructor, has been in vogue lately; Blikstein and his colleagues at FabLab@School, a network of educational workshops Blikstein created in 2009, are trying to get at the heart of how much or how little instruction students really need.

In their study published online May 9 in the journal Oncogene, scientist Saraswati Sukumar, Ph.D.; her graduate student Wei Wen Teo; and their colleagues show that cells without HOXA5 have an increased capacity to renew themselves and are more invasive than normal breast cells — in short, they become more tumor like.

They are actually true teeth, rather than just protrusions in the mouths of these tetrapods, says Reisz and his colleagues, Bryan Gee and Yara Haridy, both graduate students in paleontology.

As a medical student, MacGibeny looks at the research through a less theoretical lens than her colleagues.

In an unrelated study of more than 1,000 first - year medical students, Shalini Reddy, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of student professional development programs at the Pritzker School of Medicine, and colleagues found that only a quarter of students said they would choose a primary care specialty if they had to select a field now.

Ranjit and her colleagues analyzed data from a survey of more than 15,000 middle - and high - school students in Texas.

I have had more than one colleague express hesitance that mindfulness will simply «coddle» privileged students and dismiss the pain and anger of marginalized students.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

Entertaining yet uneven, Easy A follows smart - alecky high schooler Olive Pendergast (Emma Stone) as she becomes the focus of gossip after word gets out that she lost her virginity to a college student - with the situation escalating as Olive agrees to perpetuate similar rumors about her exploits with several less - than - popular colleagues.

After her rich fiance dumps her, slacker teacher Elizabeth (Diaz) returns to her middle school classroom with even less interest than before, fending off the interest of hang - dog coach Russell (Segel), perky colleague Amy (Punch) and gullible Lynn (Smith), while the oblivious principal (Higgins) fails to notice that she's merely showing school - themed movies to her students.

The point was to see the positive things happening in our colleagues» classrooms and to interact with students in environments other than our own classrooms.

In the early 1980s, James Coleman and his colleagues found that Catholic - school students were significantly more likely to report that their schools» approach to discipline was «excellent or good» than their public - school peers.

More than 90 percent of students and more than 90 percent of mentors who respond to our year - end surveys say they would recommend the program to a colleague or friend.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

More than 25 years ago, James Coleman and his colleagues found that attending a private school was more beneficial for black students than for whites, as measured by test scores.

Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

If one teacher is regarded by colleagues as a far more valued mentor than another, or helps students master skills much more rapidly than another, it's axiomatic that one teacher is more productive than the other.

• Believe in the value of what you are teaching and make sure your students understand why it is important; so preparation is paramount • Show your students you care about their wellbeing and progress; that is your job; there is nothing they despise more than a teacher who doesn't care • Admit when you don't know or when you're wrong; they need to see you're a learner too • Collaboration with your colleagues is powerful support and very rewarding.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

This has profound implications: Chetty and colleagues estimate that replacing a teacher whose value added is in the bottom 5 percent of the distribution with an average teacher would increase the present discounted value of students» lifetime income by more than $ 250,000 for a typical class (of 28 students).

In other words, we ask whether teachers who receive higher TES ratings than other teachers in their school produce larger gains in student achievement than their same - school colleagues.

«I have a kaleidoscope of memories of Jerry,» writes Howard Gardner, «sitting with a group of students and colleagues, raising questions in a broader way than most of us would, then asking us to connect the dots, and then offering his own connections, NOT in a way of closing the conversation, but rather...

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

«Extensive research shows that... valid and reliable measures of teacher effectiveness,» have yet to be generated, she says, blithely putting on ignore important work by Thomas Kane, Eric Hanushek, and Raj Chetty and his colleagues, which shows that students learn in any given year somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of a standard deviation more if they have an especially effective teacher rather than a very ineffective one.

White teachers were 9 percentage points less likely to expect a black student to earn a college degree than their black colleagues when both teachers were evaluating the same student — on average, 33 percent of black teachers expected the student to finish college, compared to 24 percent of white teachers.

Greenhow and her colleagues started asking targeted questions about what students themselves thought they actually learned from these sites, finding that more than half of them recognized they were getting some kind of education along with hanging with their friends.

The concept is simple: A series of influential studies in recent years have shown that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in student achievement, so «good» teachers — as reflected in growth in student test scores — should be paid more than their less able colleagues.

Performance Trends of Top Students» by Robert Theaker and his colleagues, and elsewhere — have shown that high achievers made lesser gains in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era than did low achievers.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.

Michael Podgursky and colleagues documented how district payments for pension benefits grew from roughly $ 800 per student in 2010, when spending levels began to fall nationally, to more than $ 1,200 in 2017 — a 50 percent increase over just six years (see «Pensions under Pressure,» features, Spring 2018).

Reframing how the legislation was written to capture that focus on «students» and «equity,» rather than «choice» or school type, enabled the coalition to attract more Democratic colleagues in the House.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»