Sentences with phrase «than the achievement found»

Given the positive rhetoric about charter schools being able to «beat the odds» one might expect their achievement profile on the SAT to be significantly higher than the achievement found in public high schools located in either «A» or «B» communities.

Not exact matches

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

This study by Dr. Gail Matthews found that «more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to a friend reported successful goal achievement.»

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A 2015 Dominican University of California study found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves without writing them down.

Interestingly, the most comprehensive study of such things found atheists to be above average intelligence and education, but with lower levels of success and achievement than Christians of camparable background.

For what exhilarates us human creatures more than freedom, more than the glory of achievement, is the joy of finding and surrendering to a Beauty greater than man, the rapture of being possessed.

Rather than waiting for a life of achievement, principles and values to become your reality, pursue this kind of life by finding a mentor who can lead you in its direction.

Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

The Olympics should be the acme of an athlete's career — the competition his greatest challenge, the victory his greatest moment of exultation — and yet repeatedly the most notable Olympians, the winners, found more consolation in the completion of the task than joy in the achievement.

Our recent pilot found that FRED children were four times more likely to exceed their school achievement targets than their peers.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

In a secondary analysis, the NSLY found that the achievement scores of children breastfed for at least 29 weeks were 1.5 points higher than those of children never breastfed (P =.01), but the authors considered their data about breastfeeding duration «less reliable» than data about whether a child was ever breastfed.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

A new study of more than 6000 pairs of twins finds that academic achievement is influenced by genes affecting motivation, personality, confidence, and dozens of other traits, in addition to those that shape intelligence.

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.

A growing body of evidence finds that teacher turnover reduces student achievement, either directly because replacement teachers are less effective than exiting teachers or indirectly through the disruptions caused by high turnover rates.

Both those achievements and many earlier records put to shame the breath - holding efforts of most people on dry land, who may nonetheless find that they, too, can hold out much longer than usual while swimming.

Do you find yourself focusing on the minor mistakes you made, rather than your major achievements?

I've also found that setting daily and weekly goals to be much more effective than running the marathon of a yearly goal because you can celebrate your achievements quicker which boosts your morale and motivation to do more.

Those who take care of themselves, develop their personalities, and continue to have personal achievements will find a relationships more quickly than those who don't.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

And if it's about something other than finding the highest achievements then let it be about something MORE important like leveling the power dynamic in Hollywood, for instance.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the students take rather than to grades or test results.

Numerous evaluations of KIPP schools have found that students show larger - than - expected gains on various measures of achievement.

He found that single - sex schooling helps to improve academic achievement, with benefits greater for girls than boys, and that underprivileged children derived the most benefit.

Education Sector's 2011 survey, for example, found that more than 40 percent of teachers want their unions to focus more on teacher performance and student achievement and less than half consider unions to be absolutely essential.

The Coleman Report, released in the summer of 1966, found that the family backgrounds of the student body had a greater influence on student achievement than did school resources, and that «a pupil's achievement is strongly related to the educational backgrounds and aspirations of other students in the school.»

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

The report's most contentious finding was that minority students attending Catholic schools had higher levels of achievement than those in public schools.

I find that the gains among initial 3rd graders were not as dramatic as those shown on the 4th - grade NAEP, thereby suggesting that the 4th - grade scores did create the appearance of steeper achievement growth than actually took place.

When we create groups based on demographic characteristics, we find that some groups have higher average achievement levels than others.

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

In effect, he devotes this book to affirming James Coleman's 1966 finding that school differences have far less impact on achievement differences than do family characteristics, the mightiest of which, Rothstein says, is socioeconomic status.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

Although we found substantial drops in achievement during middle school for both groups of students, the first - year drop and cumulative deficit were, respectively, 50 percent and more than 200 percent greater for students who start at the lower end of the achievement distribution.

That is, we don't expect to find one approach universally better than the others, but rather a complex pattern of effectiveness that may vary by age, by gender, by ethnicity, and by academic achievement.

The researchers found that citizens who are less educated, of lower income, or minority are no less able than better - educated, higher - income, or white citizens to evaluate the schools on the basis of student achievement.

They discuss the Coleman Report's finding that family background explained more about student achievement than factors within the control of the school or other things that education policy can influence.

The campaign for a Broader, Bolder Approach to Education hints at the standard interpretation of the Coleman findings when it asserts that «poverty, which has long been the biggest obstacle to educational achievement, is more important than ever.»

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.

We do find, for example, that the average achievement gains in a teacher's classroom in 2002 — 03 is a modestly stronger predictor of the principal's rating than the gains in any previous year.

Across grades and different student subgroups, the Coleman study found that most of the variation in student achievement is within rather than between schools, but a larger share of the variation is found between schools in earlier grades and among more disadvantaged subgroups.

The key question is whether KIPP's positive effects on learning are attributable to a peer environment that is more conducive to academic achievement than the peer environment found in traditional public schools.

A U.S. secretary of education who puts billions on the table for teacher evaluations to be tied to pupil achievement is apt to find that states and districts do better at promising than at delivering cooperation.

Nor do the researchers find evidence that students who attend middle schools make larger achievement gains than their K - 8 peers in grades 9 and 10, by which time most Florida students have entered high school.

But OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.