Sentences with phrase «survey of high school students»

Marks & Harrison — This spring, Marks & Harrison conducted an online survey of high school students from within the Richmond community.

Another survey of high school students said learning about money management was very important and 80 % wanted to learn more.

For over 37 years, NRCCUA has conducted the largest nationwide survey of high school students, which serves as a communications link between college - bound high school students and public and private colleges and universities.

Yet a recent survey of high school students conducted by National Geographic found that American students could answer fewer than 50 percent of the questions correctly (compared with 70 percent for high school students in Sweden, Germany, and Italy).

The authors used data from the 2013 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey of high schools students.

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After surveying 400 college and high school students and 400 parents, more than half of the people were in favor of using an ISA over a private student loan to pay for their degrees.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

The Challenge Success program — which is also employed at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont — began with a survey of nearly 2,000 Amador students.

Varying surveys of both private and public high school students showed from 80 to 90 percent admitting to some form of cheating during the school year, from copying another student's work to cheating on a test.

Seattle, February 25, 2014 — Washington State's Zackery Lystedt law is helping to educate high school athletics coaches about concussions, but new research finds that 69 percent of student athletes that were surveyed still played with concussion symptoms.

The National Council of Youth Sports estimates that more than 44 million youth in the United States participate in sport, and more than half of high school students (56 %) reported on the Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance Survey that they participated on a school or community sport team (11).

According to the 2012 YRBS survey results, the percentage of D.C. high school students who are obese significantly decreased from 17 % in 2007 to 15 % in 2012.

A survey covering 2005 through 2013 found 71.6 percent of rising eighth graders were students of color, but only 52 percent of those students took an admissions test for specialized high schools.

The District conducted risky behavior surveys with students finding 44 - percent of city high school students were having sex, but 35 - percent were not using condoms.

Indeed, our own surveys in local high schools found that 70 percent of high school students read books to their brothers, sisters and cousins.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Students in Staten Island Technical High School, St. John Villa Academy, Staten Island Academy and Susan E. Wagner High School will be asked to keep a log of what they drink during the month and fill out surveys before and after the challenge, Oddo said.

Details of a survey of middle and high school student attitudes to cyberbullying and online safety will be published in the International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments.

Burns and her colleagues surveyed 2,115 U.S. and Canadian high school students from 16 to 19 years of age over the course of a school year about their eating habits — and, also, tested their lung function.

The majority of the Ph.D. scientists teaching in high schools who answered a survey for Attracting reported being happy with their careers and concurred that a major reason is the pleasure of watching their students discover science.

Ole Johansson, a researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics in Norway, investigated these issues by surveying a large group of Norwegian high - school students and a group of Norwegian adults.

The report is based on several years of research by Weissbourd and his research team, including surveys of over 3,000 young adults and high school students nationwide and scores of formal interviews and informal conversations.

The researchers surveyed an ethnically diverse sample of 27,939 suburban high school students in Virginia.

The researchers analyzed data from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 15,425 public and private high school students.

«Survey of teen dating violence among US high school students.»

A survey of U.S. high school students suggests that 1 in 5 female students and 1 in 10 male students who date have experienced some form of teen dating violence during the past 12 months, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Valente and his team surveyed 1,563 10th - grade students from the El Monte Union High School District in Los Angeles County in October 2010 and April 2011 about their online and offline friendship networks and the frequency of their social media use, smoking and alcohol consumption.

Poteat and Olivier Vecho of the University of Paris, Nanterre, surveyed 722 students at a New England high school, assessing factors such as leadership, courage, altruism, and justice sensitivity, as well as observing and intervening against homophobic behavior among their peers.

STUDENTS involved in debating at high school did markedly better in their university medical studies than those who were not, a survey of final year students at the University of New South Wales haSTUDENTS involved in debating at high school did markedly better in their university medical studies than those who were not, a survey of final year students at the University of New South Wales hastudents at the University of New South Wales has found.

The data comes from the 2011, 2012 and 2013 National Youth Tobacco surveys of middle and high school students.

To determine the prevalence of texting while driving among youths, Bailin and her colleagues analyzed data from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 7,833 high school students who were old enough to get a driver's license in their state.

Nearly 43 percent of high school students of driving age who were surveyed in 2011 reported texting while driving at least once in the past 30 days, according to a study to be presented Saturday, May 4, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC.

Last June, thanks to better equipment and higher visibility, students from the University of Hawaii Marine Option Program — a field school that teaches students how to survey shipwrecks underwater — were able to map the entire site and produce the first systematic photos and video documentation.

Ranjit and her colleagues analyzed data from a survey of more than 15,000 middle - and high - school students in Texas.

While about a third of Japanese primary school students aged 7 - 12 use mobiles, by the time they get to high school that figure rises to 96 %, according to a government survey last December.

A 2001 study of high school students conducted by Harvard University found 3 Background & Objectives Liz Claiborne Inc. commissioned Knowledge Networks to conduct a survey of college students.

In these case studies of four high schools implementing multidisciplinary demonstration projects, self - reports, surveys, and interviews of students, faculty, and administrators were used to identify successful implementation practices and obstacles.

The researchers surveyed 4,057 students from 52 high schools in Chicago to examine the influence of civil learning activities on a students» willingness to commit to volunteering and to learn about state and local issues.

The need for such a new culture is huge: Indiana University's High School Survey of Student Engagement has found, for instance, that 65 percent of students report being bored «at least every day in class.»

Eighty - eight percent of the more than 1,000 students who participated in the survey said they would work harder if their high schools demanded more of them, set higher standards, and raised expectations.

Survey results indicate that inclusive schools have several strengths in promoting STEM education in students who are underrepresented in STEM fields, such as recognizing that some students need extended instructional time, keeping students with teachers for multiple years, providing students with higher levels of contact with mentors in STEM fields who mirror the students» backgrounds, and emphasizing career and technical preparation.

Report on a survey of 467 students who have dropped out of high school.

The survey released last week by the Los Angeles - based Josephson Institute of Ethics asked more than 43,000 high school students whether they'd been physically abused, teased, or taunted in a way that seriously upset them.

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

Charting the Path from Engagement to Achievement: A Report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement.

In a 2006 survey of students who dropped out of high school, 81 percent said that if schools provided opportunities for real - world learning, including internships and service - learning, it would have improved their chances of graduating high school (Bridgeland, Dilulio, and Morison, 2006).

These students are in classrooms in most school systems — and face some of the steepest odds for graduating from high school — yet only one - third of district - level leaders believe educators in their schools are prepared to effectively teach English - learners, according to an Education Week Research Center survey from late last year.

Some surveys in South Korea show about 20 % of middle and high school students feel tempted to suicide.

LSE surveyed schools in four UK cities of Birmingham, London, Leicester and Manchester and found that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increased post mobile phone ban.

January 14, 2016 — Sixty - five percent of high school students report being bored «at least every day in class» according to a recent survey.