Sentences with phrase «studies students over»

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In a study from the University of British Columbia, researchers assigned 124 participants — students, financial analysts, medical professionals and other adults — into one of two groups over two weeks.

Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

Studies have shown that over the course of an hour lecture, there is a 10 - to 18 - minute window in which students are in their most focused mindset.

So far, over 1.5 million Brazilian students have used Descomplica to study everything from physics to chemistry and history, as well as prepare for the Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio, or ENEM, Brazil's most common exam for those hoping to attend university.

Johnston: For students, it's the instant nature of getting over a roadblock in your homework or the test that you're studying for.

(As the parent of a first - year university student off to study tuba performance, I'm in no position to lecture anyone on practicality over passion.)

Ivey's MBA program centred on case studies, providing students with over 300 real - world business scenarios to learn from.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

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We use advertising revenue to subsidize the cost of providing journalism to the campus, and to fund over fifty students who are on our work - study program.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» he wrote.

A new study by Millennial Branding, of 225 employers using Experience Inc.'s data pool of over 100,000 US companies, uncovers the student employment gap, skill requirements, and sources of hire for the class of 2012.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

High school students all over America study Shakespeare plays.

This was the first summer school of alcohol studies; some five thousand students from all over the world have attended since 1943 when it began at Yale.

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

Though I was a graduate student, full - or part - time, for over a decade, my studies had not done much to deliver me from life.

Teachers have a primary duty to serve their pupils and not to gratify themselves, whether by a sense of power over the lives of others, by the enjoyment of their students» affection and respect, or by the intrinsic stimulus of interesting studies.

The latter involved, for example, the compulsory study over many years of Dialectical Materialism (known unfondly to Soviet - era students as diamat).

Near Kuala Lumpur the government has built a new International Islamic University, a truly impressive complex with students from all over the Islamic world (many subsidized), sparing no expense to build state - of - the - art programs in areas like electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as in Islamic studies.

Straus and Bacon, for example, in their study of over 15,000 college students, found that the incidence of abstention from alcohol on the part of the parents decreased in each category as they moved from lower to higher family income.

The basic existential thrust of postmodern cultural study is to relax the power of any particular culture over the minds of students.

The spring before, I had been teaching at Harvard as a graduate student, studying for doctoral exams, and taking part in wonderful evening ecumenical discussions with such members (over the years) as Harvey Cox, Daniel Callahan, and Ann Orlov of Harvard University Press.

One of my students reported that she learned to love nature by watching, studying, and photographing one polar bear for hours at a time over several weeks.

«A recent study of over 6,000 Dutch university students comparing those that consumed alcohol mixed with energy drinks versus those that drank alcohol alone, provides scientific evidence that mixing energy drinks with alcohol does not increase overall alcohol consumption and / or alcohol - related consequences.

Over 1650 business, industrial, governmental, and other institutions «cooperate» with Drexel in offering students the opportunity to acquire practical experience in employment related to their college studies.

All over campus, students stopped studying and abandoned kegs and raced to the field.

Over the past 25 years, KPA Elite Performance has studied and worked with hundreds of elite performers in student athletics, sport, business, the military, performing arts and show business.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

But that hasn't necessarily been good for the kids whose parents hover over their every thought and action: According to recent studies, college students who have helicopter parents were -LSB-...]

This letter is in response to «Worked up over homework; Student workload study prompts Wheaton district to suggest changes» (News, Feb. 13).

In partnership with Waldorf schools all over the world, students at Academe of the Oaks have the opportunity to study abroad.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

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.»

But that hasn't necessarily been good for the kids whose parents hover over their every thought and action: According to recent studies, college students who have helicopter parents were more likely to be neurotic and dependent, and kids who keep hearing how special they are are likely to turn into narcissists.

In A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School (Chicago 2010), the first ethnography of a medical school in the global South, Wendland described the intellectual and professional journeys of Malawian medical students over the course of their studies.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success notes,» [S] everal studies have shown that when students have some choice over assignments, such as which topics to write about or which problems to do, they are more likely to be engaged in the work and complete it... If homework is going to be assigned, it should be developmentally appropriate, meaningful, and engaging for the students.»

While some homework might be beneficial for older students, both Dr. Pope and the new study really stress quality over quantity.

The study — conducted by Hio Wa Mak, doctoral student of human development and family studies — examined how parental rejection, as well as the overall well - being of the family unit, were related to changes in adolescents» social anxiety, friendships and feelings of loneliness over time.

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In 1917, in a study in Texas, over half of the students could not say what important event happened in 1776.

Certainly, studies support that painful truth that students — no matter their economic status — lose about two months of math abilities over the summer months.

Challenge Success at the Stanford Graduate School of Education reviewed over 20 research studies on the Advanced Placement Program as well as examined its own research on the subject with schools and students.

McCluskey said Spanish was chosen because students at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn choose to study Spanish over other languages offered.

More importantly, researchers found that the percentage of students who ate more than half of their apple increased by 73 %, an effect that lasted long after the study was over.

Students could see their tuition costs soar to over # 16,000 - five times the current rate - if a cap on fees is lifted, according to a study.

Conducted by the Student PIRGs» New Voters Project, Working Assets and researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton, the study looked at the effects of SMS GOTV reminders in the 2006 general election on a group of 4000 people selected at random from a pool of over 8000 new voters.

However, it was the Liberal Democrats» failure to honour the manifesto pledge for England to «Scrap unfair university tuition fees for all students taking their first degree, including those studying part - time, saving them over # 10,000 each» which has proven to be the single most damaging consequence of coalition.