Sentences with phrase «study tested school»

A particularly powerful study tested school - aged children on self - control and conducted follow - up studies on those children in their 30s.

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She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

A classic psychology paper, Pygmalion in the Classroom, describes a study in which elementary - school students were given a test to identify the most able.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

He'd come to America to study at an engineering school outside Atlanta, and tested fans for us there one summer.

Studies suggest firstborns score higher in IQ tests, earn higher salaries and perform better in school than their siblings.

«I think that we've all suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study for a test that either lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.

You can take a test at school to get in and if you fail you may just decide to study more or give up either way you have changed.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Carolyn also does general consulting with schools on topics from curriculum development to teaching study skills to interpretation of student test scores.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

I have seen too many children educated in the «herd» who end up thinking school is about memorizing study guides and taking tests.»

Now he's failed a drug test for his work — study program at school, and you know: this is serious.

What's more, a study conducted by the University of Virginia showed that kids who attend a school with a severe climate of bullying often have lower scores on standardized tests.

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Because kindergarten readiness assessments are not like the rigorous testing that your child will see in higher grades of school, don't worry about having your child study for these tests.

While studies have not yet been performed using the K - D test in screening athletes at the youth and high school level, the long use of the test in diagnosing reading problems in children «gives me reason to be very optimistic that the test could help parents and coaches to determine whether an athlete who has been hit may have suffered a concussion,» Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.

So make sure your teen has plenty of time to do homework, study for tests, and be prepared for school before you allow him to continue with other extra-curricular activities.

They might hold study hours after school or offer to meet privately with your teen to help them review the material before a test.

School is back in session and we are all getting back into the swing of homework, tests and studying.

Alex Ashbrook, director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, called in - classroom breakfast a possible «magic bullet of school reform» because some studies link a good breakfast to increased test scores and fewer visits to the school nurse.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

An April 2009 study found that sleep problems in the grade - school years were linked to poor scores on mental tests when the children reached adolescence.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatschool, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatSchool Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Studies have shown that students who eat breakfast at school score better on standardized tests and skip school or are tardy less often.

In fact, studies have shown that school - age children who were fed low - iron formula as infants tend not to do as well on standardized developmental tests as children who received iron - fortified formula.

Studying for a test can be scary for young kids, and many educators assume parents will help their kids during the grade - school years.

For example, while a child who lacks confidence may excel when it comes to studying and performing on tests, he or she may not be willing to try anything else at school to become a more well - rounded student.

We met way back in 2013 while we were attending nursing school and got to know each other while studying for tests.

School pupils could be tested for drugs as part of a new government study to determine whether testing can affect youngsters» behaviour, attendance and academic achievements.

«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A Test Resource).

The bill would ensure that schools can notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in Common Core standardized tests, protects schools from having state aid withheld & ensures that students are not punished for their lack of participation in those tests, and it would set - aside alternate studies, Last year, parents of 60,000 students refused New York State Common Core tests.

Study co-author Robin Jacobowitz says testing takes more time in schools than we realize.

Ten students at a Queens school got a second chance to answer questions they had skipped on a state social studies test.

Signaling a profound turn away from the education policies of the Bloomberg administration, newly appointed schools chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to retreat from an emphasis on standardized testing and preparation, to re-focus on arts, social studies and science, and to implement changes that «happen with people, not to people.»

Although the new research looks «promising,» the newly identified compounds have not been tested outside of the lab, says James Logan, scientific director of the Arthropod Control Product Test Center at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who did not contribute to the study.

Researchers chose study participants by giving junior high schoolers the SAT, a test designed for college - bound high - school students.

As the authors of the new UNC study write, admissions committees often assume that «[t] ypical selection criteria [such as] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews with training faculty... correlate with research success in graduate school.»

Elementary school children who read below grade level may have challenges with their eyesight even if standard tests show they see 20/20, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

«The blood test included a selection of 15 measures of immune and hormonal system imbalances as well as evidence of oxidative stress,» said Diana O. Perkins, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and corresponding author of the study.

Dr Sian Clarke from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also a principal investigator in the research, said: «This study shows that rapid diagnostic tests can improve the use of artemisinin - based combination therapies — the most effective treatment for malaria — in drug shops, but it's not without its challenges.

Importantly, these cells are readily detectable in patients» bloodstream, allowing for any clinical tests to be minimally invasive and pain - free for patients,» said Professor Salvatore Albani, Director, SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Professor, Duke - NUS Medical School and Senior Clinician Scientist, KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), who is the principal investigator of the study.

«Not only that, but in testing two doses of rivaroxaban, we found that we have the option of lowering the daily dose for extended treatment,» said Dr. Jeffrey Weitz, principal investigator of the study and professor of medicine and biochemistry and biomedical sciences at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University.

Attending public preschool is linked to an increase in students taking the admissions test for gifted and talented programs, reducing the disparity in test taking between disadvantaged students and their peers, finds a study of New York City students by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«This study shows that researchers working on problems in rare diseases, such as blood pressure in synucleinopathies, can pool together data and ideas and develop a simple bedside test that can perhaps help spot these problems earlier,» says Dr. Kaufmann, the Felicia B. Axelrod Professor of Dysautonomia Research in the Department of Neurology, and professor of medicine and pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine.