Sentences with phrase «studying student data»

First, there is little evidence that teachers meeting to study student data, such as benchmark test scores, actually affects instruction or student learning.

, which would establish a committee to study student data privacy.

Not exact matches

The British study looked at a vast trove of data on college students from America, the UK, and Canada, and found a consistent pattern.

The Institute of International Education, a not - for - profit organization that researches the movement of international students, found that 304,467 American students studied abroad during the 2013 - 2014 school year — the most recent data available.

Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self - censorship behavior collected from 5 million English - speaking Facebook users.

A recent study run by the Department of Education generated new data pertaining to student loan debt.

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.

Toronto - headquartered fintech firm First Global Data Ltd. has entered into a definitive agreement with Hong Kong - headquartered China Smartpay to deliver cross-border payment solutions for Chinese vacation travellers and students studying overseas.

For this study, we analyzed student loan debt data from 1,138 schools in the United States, including student loan debt per borrower, proportion of graduates with student loan debt, and the number of borrowers from the Class of 2016.

The survey was structured to permit comparisons with data from studies of entering law students (dating from 1991) and medical students (1996).

That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.

For the months during the study, the school district provided data for average daily participation rates, overall school enrollment, and percent of students receiving a free or reduced price lunch.

The study, analyzing data on almost 5,000 students in 8th - grade in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, found that higher risks of substance abuse occurred in two - parent as well as single - parent households and in affluent as well as poor homes.

The study looked at data on 6,300 students in 40 states, tracking their height and weight between 2004 and» 07, from fifth to eighth grade.

Environmental students learned about the prairie ecosystem, collecting data for fieldwork by identifying plants, looking at invasive plants and studying wildlife.

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

The number of students known to be home - educated varied between 0.09 % and 0.42 % of the total school population in the areas that were surveyed, and there was no hope, at the end of the study, of procuring better data.

For this longitudinal study, school lunch student food selection data were collected daily from January 2011 through January 2014 in the 16 school - year months prior to and the 15 school - year months after implementation of the HHFKA.

This book uses studies and other data to argue that students from poverty and high - stress environments learn differently than their middle and upperclass counterparts.

It's also important to note that in both studies researchers gathered their data in the first year of the HHFKA's implementation, before students were used to seeing fruits and vegetables on their tray on a daily basis.

First - Ever Research Study of NYC's Teacher Rating Data: Students of Color and High - Needs Students Most Likely to be Taught by Teachers Rated «Unsatisfactory»

(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening study of the City's teacher rating data, published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.

As part of this study, Dr. O'Mullan and his students are also collecting temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen data, to more fully understand the impacts of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) in the East River and its bays and tributaries.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

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A recent and exhaustive meta - analysis of scientific data shows that top psychology studies tend to make conclusions about human nature based on samples taken solely from Western undergraduate students.

Dr. Palamar's study utilized MTF responses from 2012 to 2013, examining data from a total of 8,604 students who reported their sociodemographic data, alcohol and drug use.

Previous studies had shown that African - American students are underrepresented in gifted programs, but the studies were based on organizational - level data and could not determine what caused the underrepresentation.

As the case and our study demonstrate, students are likely to observe and experience the impact of the data sharing and withholding behaviors of faculty.

The study, published in the journal Victims & Offenders, used longitudinal data from 763 students in a Northeastern U.S. school district.

In addition, while our data suggest that sleep loss impairs working memory in a sex - dependent manner, this does not mean that the sex - differences we observed can be generalised to other mental or physical measures of how we are affected by sleep loss,» says Frida Rångtell, PhD student at the Department of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

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 a new study that capitalizes on data from the National Center for Educational Statistics and methods that address causality, Cornell sociologists looked at an earlier portion of the pipeline — in high school, when students» commitment to STEM fields tends to solidify.

In the second study, researchers used data from the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement and the National Survey of Student Engagement and found that the preferences of both STEM majors and non-STEM majors changed during the first year of college.

The team drew on data from 120 undergraduate students who participated in the Duke Neurogenetics Study.

Before doing the new national study, the authors identified similar trends in Michigan hospitals using data from the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative, led by medical student David Cron and published in July 2016.

In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from 1.7 million K - 12 students in Ohio who attended a traditional public school, charter school, or an online charter school between the 2009 - 10 and 2012 - 13 school years.

«These data show for the first time that obesity is associated with increased DNA damage in breast epithelium of BRCA mutation carriers,» lead study author Priya Bhardwaj, a Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, N.Y., and colleagues write in their abstract.

Data for the UI study came from responses to the Student Experience in the Research University survey (SERU) administered in 2014 to undergraduates at 11 four - year, doctorate - granting public universities in the U.S..

«We went through the data and showed that, in every case, this method estimated that the density of trees was two to three times higher than was the reality,» said Carrie Levine, a Ph.D. student of forest ecology at Berkeley and lead author of the study.

A study of students at one campus suggests that the practice of massaging data is common, but the behavior decreases as students advance toward a career in science.

Robyn Dawes, a professor Krueger had studied under, countered that the students who predicted that their opinions would be in the majority were not making an error at all but rather were taking their own opinion as a legitimate piece of data.

The study highlights the need for more data on students» career preferences in order to compare graduates» career goals to their actual career transitions, Sauermann said.

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical purposes.

Its study draws upon data from two states, Florida and North Carolina, that allow researchers to track the progress of students through the system and beyond and possibly correlate it with the contributions from individual teachers and specific educational practices.

The data collected in 2007 and 2010 confirm a theoretical study by Summer Rupper, a former UW doctoral student now at the University of Utah, and UW faculty member Gerard Roe.

Researchers analyzed data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, both maintained by the National Center for Education Statistdata from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, both maintained by the National Center for Education StatistData System, both maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics.

In the new UCSF study, the researchers examined survey data from middle and high school students who completed the National Youth Tobacco Survey in 2011 and 2012.

To come to this conclusion, the researchers examined data from a qualitative comparative case study that explored two secondary schools organized for the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.