Sentences with phrase «test learning effects»

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

And Facebook ad tool Heyo ran an A / B test to see the effect that the «Learn More» button had, compared to no button at all.

Understand the effects on test performance of pre-existing neurological conditions (learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, ADHD) and other extraneous factors; and

Many parents are worried about the possible effects of certain food additives on their children, and they're often surprised to learn that the FDA does not test and approve each of the literally thousands of additives in our food supply.

In these mice, administration of B2M in young mice had no significant effect, either in tests of learning or in assessments of neurogenesis.

This retreat behavior became more and more prevalent as testing continued and reflects the animals» learning that negative effects (the crash) follow the positive effects (euphoria) of cocaine.

As a follow - up, they have now tested the effects of antidepressant treatment on extinction learning in rats using auditory fear conditioning, a model of fear learning that involves the amygdala.

The chemicals, considered hormone disruptors, have been linked to health effects in animal tests and some human studies, including altered male genitalia, attention and learning problems and asthma.

Interestingly, the piglets produced the best results when they were not tested for the learning effect until the next day.

«This is a globally unique data set in which we can control for genetics and test for the effect of experience,» said UMD Biology Professor William F. Fagan, a co-author of the paper, «and it gives us an indication of just how important this kind of socially learned behavior is.»

In the new study, Fernández, along with Eelco van Dongen and their colleagues, tested the effects of a single session of physical exercise after learning on memory consolidation and long - term memory.

In this case, however, this manipulation had no effect on the learning efficiency of the test subjects.

Yet much of the evidence cited by smart drug enthusiasts comes from animal experiments which can, by virtue of their design, test only a drug's effect on learning, not recall.

To examine effects in individual subjects, for each testing session we calculated the average percent reduction in excess path length during block 4 for each of the three locations that had been learned during periods with stimulation in blocks 1, 2, and 3, and compared the data with the average percent reduction in excess path length during block 4 for each of the three locations that had been learned without stimulation in those blocks.

The GREAT3 challenge is posed to the astronomy, machine learning, and statistics communities, and includes tests of three specific effects that are of immediate relevance to upcoming weak lensing surveys, two of which have never been tested in a community challenge before.

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What, then, can we learn from a ten - week study testing the effect of vegetable oils on fatty liver without paying any attention to micronutrients like vitamin E and choline?

But in tests designed to assess the ability to learn new things, EGCG had no effect at all.

One Brazilian study tested the effects of a yerba mate extract on the short and long term learning and memory of rats.

Maybe due to effects (brain drain) of continual bombardment with memory / recall tests in which one is not actively learning and can not really learn.

Google did nt ease my anxiety — there I learned that less than 5 percent of the more than 80,000 chemicals introduced in the United States since World War II have been tested for their effects on human health and development — but a close friend did.

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Alongside noting effects on teaching and learning, the contributors to this volume illuminate other troubling consequences of high - stakes testing policies.

Struck by the extent to which «every interaction was keyed to preparing for Japan's comprehensive college entrance exam,» Ho became interested in standardized testing and its effects on schools and learning.

It's critical to consider the effect of timed tests on students with learning disabilities — a point raised by several parents and teachers.

The authors found that PLCs have a positive effect on student learning: student scores increased in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests.

Phase 1 trials would be small, nongenerablizable empirical studies whose dependent variable is not year - end test scores, but «next - day or next - week outcomes: measurable effects on student behavior, effort, or short - term learning.»

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

But, unfortunately, evidence from both the United States and other countries shows that more school resources and smaller classes do not have much of an effect on how much a student learns in school, as measured by tests of achievement.

Findings suggest that quasi-repetitive projects can lead to higher scores on the AP test but a floor effect on the assessment of deeper learning.

Learning gains are measured by comparing the average improvements in the test scores of pupils, represented by the statistical size of the effect.

This allows us to measure peer effects free from the reflection problem, providing a rare opportunity to test the notion that even one «bad apple» impedes the learning of all other students.

«And so I would very much like the academy or somebody — because somebody's got to do this — to take advantage of the fact that we have all these states doing different experiments and take, for example, three or four states with very different assessments for science, Maryland would be one, and then actually do some research on what's the effect of teaching and learning of these different kinds of tests.»

My goal was to learn from the best about how effects of the environment, standardized testing, policy, and culture can be understood individually and under what conditions these effects work best together.

I think all too often the narrow focus on what can be easily tested (and what schools are held accountable for) has a retrograde effect on depth of learning in the classroom.

Finally, studies suggest that marking answers right or wrong (as in multiple choice tests) has little effect on learning.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

To take just one example, one of the most disturbing negative effects of test - based accountability is that many young teachers have been trained specifically to use bad test prep — test prep that generates bogus gains in scores rather than true improvements in learning.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School System.

Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students» learning.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

They recognized the narrow effects on learning that the Common Core and national testing schemes are having on their children.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

The effects of high - stakes testing on student motivation and learning.

If a single student were to take the same test repeatedly (with no new learning taking place between testings and no memory of question effects), the standard deviation of his / her repeated test scores is denoted as the standard error of measure.

For too long, standardized testing has been the predominant form of assessing student learning, while ignoring the deleterious effects of narrowing the curriculum, promoting teaching to the test, and emphasizing lower order cognitive skills.

The summative evaluation of two years of the Arts for Academic Achievement (AAA) program examines student learning outcomes of arts - integrated instruction measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized tests.

The effect of testing on mental processes is different from that of studying, which may have a beneficial impact on learning.

The LSG teachers acknowledged the possible harmful effects of having students learn a procedure without meaning, but at the same time were charged with having students produce correct answers to a narrow selection of systems of equations to be included on tests that would be used by administrators to judge the quality of their teaching.

In fact, the cognitive psychology term «testing effect» was coined several decades ago to refer to the finding that taking practice tests on studied material promotes greater subsequent learning and retention on a final test as compared to relying on more common study strategies.