Sentences with phrase «than academic ability»

It takes more than academic ability to impress graduate employers.

Male students in undergraduate introductory biology courses are outperforming females at test time, but it may be due to how exams are designed rather than academic ability.

«A market in course prices between universities would increasingly pressure on students to make decisions based on cost rather than academic ability or ambition.

Not exact matches

Academic specialization entails more than an awareness of one's expertise — the specific technical abilities and knowledge that one uses to teach or do research.

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

However, the association of academic performance and physical fitness was stronger for motor ability than cardiorespiratory capacity, meaning that motor ability may be more important for academic performance.

It made for a juicy academic scandal that in the end hurt him more than anyone else, but the consequences of the internet's ability to cloak users» identities aren't always so confined.

As well, the study finds that a child's nurturing environment is more strongly correlated than biological factors to brain development and general intellectual ability, declarative memory, procedural memory, executive function, academic achievement, fine motor dexterity, and socio - emotional health.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

This outlook, the team argues, causes students to respond to challenges by trying harder and has a greater impact on Asian - Americans» academic achievement than does cognitive ability or socioeconomic status.

Nolan's great gift is his ability to craft cinematic engineering problems that feel vital and probing rather than sterile or academic.

The paper also cites PISA data from 2012 showing girls studying physics «had lower confidence than their male classmates, despite tests revealing no difference in academic performance; and that students confidence in their maths abilities were more likely to embark on STEM careers».

The finding that happiness is positively correlated with GPA is significant, Hinton notes, because GPA provides a broader picture of academic achievement than standardized test scores, encompassing multiple types of abilities and the influence of social dynamics.

This report shows that by placing an average ability student in the least effective, rather than the most effective classroom environment could affect their academic progress by as much as the average improvement across a year.

To engage students effectively in the learning process, teachers must know their students and their academic abilities individually, rather than relying on racial or ethnic stereotypes or prior experience with other students of similar backgrounds.

I use this example as a rapid way of indicating why an academic skill like reading depends on learning much more than the foundational ability to form sounds from symbols, turn the sounds into words, and put the words together in sentences.

Evidence confirms that student skills other than academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes.

Thanks to Giroux and others, the contemporary classroom - even if it falls short of the critical pedagogues» ideal - increasingly is a block - scheduled site presided over by a teacher who, at least concerning academics, is the guide on the side, eschews grades in favor of portfolios, minimizes ability - grouping, and, rather than being a content provider, is a manager of peer editing, team building, and other processes.

Other teacher attributes: Recent studies suggest that measures of teachers» academic skills, such as SAT or ACT scores, tests of verbal ability, or the selectivity of the colleges they attended, may predict their effectiveness more accurately than the characteristics discussed above.

With its trail markers directed at three different grade levels, each book (United States, World, and Bible) can be used for more than one academic school year and works well with a number of different student abilities learning together.

Assessments of academic, vocational or other formal learning must promote, measure and provide useful feedback on conceptual understanding and the ability to use knowledge and create rather than primarily procedural, factual or surface learning.

Their descriptors for this key factor of student engagement connect to Carol Dweck's work on growth mindset — focus on effort rather than ability, know that you can get smarter, use feedback to promote growth, and build academic stamina and resilience.

The SMF findings come in a report assessing a proposal by the Sutton Trust that children should be admitted to independent schools on academic ability alone, rather than on their family's capacity to pay fees.

«Children from high - income backgrounds who show signs of low academic ability at age five, are 35 % more likely to become high earners than their poorer peers who show early signs of high ability,» Ms Greening told a Social Mobility Commission event.

Houston was recognized for its students» academic achievement gains, its ability to increase the district graduation rate faster than any other urban district in the running for the prize, and its progress in narrowing the achievement gaps for low - income and Hispanic students and improving students» college - readiness, among other achievements.

Students are able to build working Roman chariots, practice blacksmithing, publish novels, or learn to sew at Joule, as well as attend academic classes at their level of ability rather than their age.

PISA, which is led by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), tests 15 - year - olds every three years in more than 70 countries on their ability to apply academic knowledge to real - life situations in science and mathematics, as well as their reading and collaborative problem solving skills.

The ability to delay immediate gratification has been correlated with students» academic performance in secondary school and has been found to be a greater predictor of academic performance than IQ.

This way, rather than being separated by grade, students are placed into classes based on their academic ability.

Math skills at kindergarten entry (the ability to recognize numbers, problem solve, use reasoning skills, and apply knowledge) are increasingly seen as an even better predictor of later academic success than early reading ability.

Overall, the research found that the academic abilities of those entering teaching declined in 1986 to 1999, but turned around rapidly after that: Teachers hired in 2010 have SAT scores 27 percent of a standard deviation higher than they did in 1999.

«There is a striking reduction in the teacher academic ability gap between schools with more and fewer poor students, so that between 2007 and 2010, it is 27 percent smaller than what it was between 1986 and 1989,» the researchers write.

Authentic intellectual achievement, in this model, involves much more than the ability to do well on an academic test.

In a statement released less than two weeks ago, Flanagan said, «denying charters the ability to grow and preventing parents» ability to choose would shut the door on 20 years of proven gains in academic achievement.

By this logic, since youth from higher - income homes, on average, have more academic and common knowledge than youth from lower - income homes, the test that conflates reading comprehension ability with opportunity to learn is perfectly fair.

Students from low - income families are vastly less likely to attend top colleges than wealthier Americans with similar academic ability.

More than a third (38 %) of people say they believe that the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select by academic ability.

But equally important was the ability to demonstrate key «competencies»: the skills that are needed for working — rather than academic — life.

The ability to showcase knowledge, genuine interest and experience in television and radio is a prerequisite even more than academic qualifications

Most Car Salesmen resumes display little academic training, as persuasion and sales abilities are more important than education.

Academic qualifications are often less important than personality, attitude and abilities and a strong commercial awareness and excellent communication skills are particularly desirable attributes.

Moreover, it is unclear from existing work whether EF in particular (rather than general cognitive ability) accounts for the relations between parental behavior and children's academic ability.