Sentences with phrase «studies focus on student»

My one reservation is that the vast majority of the studies focus on student achievement tests.

Malone, an independent scholar, has years of experience in student affairs work, including a doctoral study focused on students» relational practices on evangelical campuses and how they differ from broader patterns of campus life in America.

However, this study focuses on student absenteeism.

The study focuses on student performance, management practices, and oversight mechanisms at California Virtual Academies (CAVA), whose students are «at risk of low quality educational outcomes, and some are falling through the cracks entirely, -LSB-...] Read More»

Considering my own background, it should come as no surprise that I merged my undergraduate studies in critical pedagogy with my graduate and professional studies focused on student voice.

The study focused on students from three different California high schools — only one of which had a library media program — and found that the students who came from the high school with a library had much higher levels of achievement.

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Students spend a semester on their home campus studying a curriculum focused on NAFTA issues before acquiring an internship in the U.S. or Mexico.

Millennial Branding and Internships.com Release First Ever Study on High School Careers 50 % of companies are creating high school internship programs this year and high school students are now more career focused than college students.

The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is focused on creating public dialogue around programs of study pathways for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.

Aaron Cho is a fifth - year co-op student at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, focusing his studies on finance and human resources.

By focusing on «the religious practices of today's undergraduates,... and the extent to which the study and the practice of religion are made available to undergraduate students,» they offer a systematic report of each campus's ethos, inherent religious practices and religion courses.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

In devoting themselves to the necessary tasks of maintaining a degree program, they focus on teaching expertise, recurring courses of study, standards of student admission and symbols of adequate student performance.

She has since moved to North Chicago, where she is a Ph.D. student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Educational Studies with a focus on Women's Ministry.

The theological school, for its part, would assume responsibility for course work that studies Christian congregations in all their variety, as well as course work that focuses on models of practice, thus cultivating students» capacities to reflect on ministerial practice (cf. 121 - 25).

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

South Dakota uses the Connections curriculum, which focuses on marriage and relationship communications skills; a 2004 study of the program found marginal success — some students felt somewhat more negatively about divorce and somewhat more positively toward premarital counseling.

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

It focuses more on grooming students for the next stage of study rather than solving problems.

In this Focus on Education report WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the program works to encourages city school students to pursue studies in math, science and technology.

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

Students who said they felt threatened by their teachers» messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated and scored worse on the exam than students who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the studStudents who said they felt threatened by their teachers» messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated and scored worse on the exam than students who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the studstudents who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the study found.

Co-authors of the commentary article are: Meriah Schoen, a research assistant at Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health and a graduate student focused on nutrition at Georgia State University; and Amanda Mummert, who recently received a PhD in Anthropology from Emory.

In January, Barker and psychology graduate students Sarah Newcomb - Anjo and Kate Mulvihill will expand on this research by launching a new study focused on life beyond graduation.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

In earlier studies that primarily focused on energy expenditure, teachers observed increased attention and better behavior of students using standing desks.

The study focused on achievement in math, which is not only important for education and economic productivity but is also known to prompt strong emotional reactions in students.

«Many cities have outlined goals to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, and obviously tree - planting is one way to achieve that goal,» said Chang Zhao, a graduate student in the Geographical and Sustainability Sciences department at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal PLOS One, «but our study shows it plays a minor role and that we need to focus on reducing carbon emissions over removing them.»

This study focused on 7,675 students who were defined as living in poverty in kindergarten.

Authored by Charles Stewart, a third - year graduate student studying plant biology at Cornell, the article focuses on four very critical areas: research versus coursework, reading the literature, attending conferences, and networking with your peers.

«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.

«This study, led by my graduate student, Tamara Rosen, clarifies and focuses inconsistencies in previous research on the unique way error processing manifests and can impact anxiety symptoms in individuals with ASD,» said senior author Dr. Matthew Lerner, of Stony Brook University.

«When shoppers focus only on paying the lowest price, they become less attuned to understanding the human needs of others, or even recognizing them,» said Johannes Boegershausen, a UBC Sauder PhD student who co-authored the study.

I think it's really easy to get lost in literature reviews and statistical analysis as a PhD student and lose focus on what you are actually studying and why it is important.

Their study focused on changes occurring at the school level, a focus which had been overlooked by earlier studies on college transitions and student well - being, Andersson said.

In addition, the gradual onset of these symptoms in the CVN - AD mouse gave researchers a chance to study its brain over time and to focus on how the disease begins, said the study's first author Matthew Kan, an MD / PhD student in Colton's lab.

In an entrepreneurial education as a course of studies the students are expected to have thought about their motives for their future work, and therefore the focus is on giving them the «ability.»

«Anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps the students who need it the most: Study reports on success of model used in Finland.»

The study, co-authored by Brian Kiessling, associate instructor and Ph.D. student within the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington, focused on how people regard activity trackers, how the trackers affect behavior, and how they can be effectively integrated into programs that help people increase movement in their lives.

AESEDA - Global Opportunities for Minority Earth Scientists by A. Sasso, 25 November 2005 Penn State's AESEDA program focuses on solving some of Africa's most pressing problems by engaging students in the study of earth sciences.

Of the two available models, a dual - degree program is probably the best approach for students interested in basic science, because the choices available for research training are likely to be wider and include more opportunities for basic science and bench research into molecular mechanisms, compared to graduate programs or postdoctoral fellowships linked to post-MD clinical training; the latter is more likely to be focused more on clinic - based studies.

A 2 - year - old program in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) called the Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering and Development in Africa (AESEDA), which focuses on solving some of Africa's most pressing problems by engaging students, particularly minority students, in the study of earth sciences.

«Experiencing conflict or making an error is something that normally gets us worked up, perhaps by activating our fight - or - flight response, which can interfere with our ability to focus on a task,» said first author R. Becket Ebitz, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University who conducted this study as a graduate student at Duke.

An MSU study finds that students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are more likely to pursue a career path in that field.

The main focus of the study was on the interaction between the teacher and students in various technology supported learning environments.