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The study found that teachers who participated in a mindfulness - based professional development program «were more emotionally supportive and demonstrated greater sensitivity to students than those in the control group.»

The study found that teachers who participated in a mindfulness - based professional development program «were more emotionally supportive and demonstrated greater sensitivity to students than those in the control group.»

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Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

Some students prefer to use «problem drinking» rather than alcoholism in describing this non-addicted excessive drinking, since there is apparently no loss of the ability to control the intake of alcohol.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

Students at more than a dozen school in central and northern New York are expected to take part in a national high school walkout today to demand action on gun control.

Cuomo has already rolled out a series of proposals over the last several weeks for the new year, beginning with a new gun control measure designed to take guns away from domestic abusers to combating student loan and spending $ 34 million to overhaul Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley to name three of the more than a dozen or so proposals unspooled.

E-cigarette use among U.S. high school students more than doubled from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10 percent in 2012, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Youth Tobacco Survey.

But the strongest improvement was in the bottom quartile of students, who scored a full 10 percent better, on average, than the bottom quartile of the control section.

Overall, the researchers report, students who learned metacognition skills scored around 4 percent higher on the final exam than their peers in the control section.

The first group also scored up to 17 percent lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.

«When dexamethasone was given during the rebuilding phase, the tissue in the healed Achilles tendon was more than twice as strong as it was in untreated controls,» says Parmis Blomgran, PhD student and principal author of the article.

«Cognate words were processed more quickly than control words,» said Jason W. Gullifer, a graduate student in psychology, suggesting that both languages are active at the same time.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

«These new findings allow disease early warning systems to provide warnings for upcoming epidemics with much longer lead time than before,» says Prasad Liyanage, doctoral student at Umeå University and Medical Officer for dengue control in Kalutara district at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health.

The odds that a given student experienced bullying were 1.5 to nearly 2 times higher in control schools than in KiVa schools nine months after KiVa's implementation.

I think most graduate students become accustomed to running their experiments their way and having more control over their day - to - day activities than they typically would in another job.

What better way for students to discover their identities as capable mathematicians than to be in control of monitoring their progress and investigations?

Treated students both attempted, and earned, 1.5 more credits (about half a college course) than those in the control group during their first semester.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

A fixed mindset can be thought of as one in which a student's belief of what they can achieve is controlled by their inherited characteristics (for example, predispositions and intelligence) rather than the belief that effort can and does make a difference (Dweck, 2007).

The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group.

By the end of two years of the program, students in incentive schools performed significantly better than those in control schools.

The results are worth the effort: When I surveyed students who were tracking their data, they were substantially more likely to respond that they were trying their hardest and felt in control of their learning than students in other classrooms.

[1] It shows, for example, that students who rated themselves in the bottom quartile with respect to self - control were absent 2.9 more days than students in the top quartile, and were nearly three times as likely to have been suspended as eighth graders; similar differences in absences and suspension rates are evident for conscientiousness and grit.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

The students who articulated the specifics of how they would overcome obstacles to their goal were more successful in attaining the goal (they completed more practice questions) than students in the control condition, which involved writing about an inspiring person or event (Duckworth, Grant, Loew, Oettingen, & Gollwitzer, 2011).

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

Using the B&B: 08/12 data, we examine total debt - to - income ratios for individuals who are employed full - time in 2012 and not currently enrolled, and find that black students with graduate degrees have debt - to - income ratios that are 27 percentage points higher than white graduate degree holders (even after controlling for other characteristics such as parental education and income).

Internationally, Ludger Woessmann has shown that students score higher in countries that require students to perform well on comprehensive examinations than in countries that, like the United States, have no such expectations (see «Crowd Control,» research, Summer 2003).

«In general, I think it's important for students to realize through experience that assessment and testing can help them understand their strengths and needs as learners, and I think it is vital that students learn the «literacy» format of tests so that they control the test situation rather than being controlled by it,» said Walton.

In the earlier study, students who toured an art museum expressed significantly stronger interest in future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control grouIn the earlier study, students who toured an art museum expressed significantly stronger interest in future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control grouin future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control group.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

This robot's app - based control makes it challenging to actively engage more that two students at a time, but the price point on the Spheros is lower than the Bee - Bots, so while I might need more robots to engage my students in a full - class lesson, the opportunity cost is comparable.

James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer did control for family background and found that students in private schools, both Catholic and non-Catholic, scored higher on the High School and Beyond civics test than did public school students, although the results were not statistically significant.

Sean explained, «The utility of perceived conscientiousness in predicting how well students do aligns with other research showing that it is how hard students work, rather than their IQ, that is the best predictor of academic grades, but the bigger story is that there is no accuracy at all unless you control for attractiveness bias.»

What's more, students who were eligible for free school meals and took part in a CREST Silver Award were 38 per cent more likely to take a STEM subject at AS Level than the matched control group.

Even the control - group students did much better than chance in picking the correct answer out of four multiple - choice options for each question.

A traditional secondary schooling model normally focuses on content, compliance and control rather than engaging students in the learning process and encouraging them to become lifelong learners

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

Nearly 20 percent of more than 13,000 high school students surveyed in 2003 said that they had been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives, while 16 percent said that they currently had asthma, according to the report by the Centers for Disease Control and...