Sentences with phrase «time of academic studies»

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... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

Then, a few weeks ago, author and academic Sherry Turkle penned a New York Times Sunday Review piece highlighting research along the same lines, including one study that showed simply having your phone out and in view can impede the process of making deep personal connections.

As part of my academic studies, I spent time with Malagasy women, many of whom had managed to start small businesses despite limited formal education, a lack of mentorship and very limited access to capital.

In a meta analysis of 225 academic studies by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King and Ed Diener (as reported in the 2012 Harvard Business Review) it was shown that happy employees have a higher productivity rate by 31 %, increased sales by 37 % and are 3 times more innovative and creative.

The measure continues to do well by members in real - time as well (beyond the constraints of any academic study).

One more thing I did not anticipate: that 40 years later a well - meaning student of a brand - new academic subject called «Holocaust Studies» would ask me: «Why didn't you leave Germany while there was still time?»

At the same time, certain complaints recur: traditional curricula are rooted in precritical assumptions, serve academic guilds, pre-empt feminist or minority studies, and are built on unviable ways of relating theory and practice.

The increased professionalization of academic life in religious studies also works against serious faculty investment of time and energy in interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Numerous studies have identified possible negative outcomes of screen time to include: irregular sleep patterns, behavioral issues, focus and attention problems, decreased academic performance and negative impact on socialization and language development.

A recent study, published in the April 2015 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, suggests that kids» academic and emotional well - being is not necessarily contingent on the amount of time they spend with their mothers.

But auditors for Comptroller Scott Stringer who studied records from the 2015 - 16 academic year said when it came to homeless kids, the DOE missed the target 92 percent of time.

This is undisputed and supported by extremely strong evidence — multiple academic panel studies have demonstrated that if you ask a group of people how they voted, note down the results and then go back to the same people a period of time later and ask them again their answers will have changed.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has appointed a task force to study the rocky rollout of the Common Core academic standards in New York and develop recommendations for improvement, the Albany Times Union reports.

In time, she channeled her early passion for how things work into academic study, majoring in biology at the University of Rochester and earning a Ph.D. in anatomy and neuroscience at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Led by Dr Steven Marwaha, a clinical academic Psychiatrist, the research analysed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and found that teenage cannabis use at least 2 - 3 times weekly is directly associated with suffering from symptoms of hypomania in later years.

According to studies reported in The New York Times in October, for example, half of the scientists queried in one survey in China claimed to know someone who had committed academic misconduct.

The study suggests that women who didn't spend a lot of time on academics but are «intelligent enough» have an advantage over women who excel in school,» said researcher Natasha Quadlin, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State.

Company employees continue to receive their salary, with the EPSRC compensating the company for any time the employee must take off for academic studies, as well as any additional costs incurred by the company in the course of the students» research.

«We found that the majority of students were being jet - lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly with decreased academic performance,» said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.

The study, conducted among 561 women seeking help for a breastfeeding problem at Cincinnati Children's Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic, will be presented at 4:15 p.m. Pacific time Monday, May 5, at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Vancouver, Canada.

... In the current study, academic achievement was measured with standardized tests administered in spring 2013, which was concurrent with the time of year when participation in the SBP peaked.

The study, which appears in academic journal Brain Imaging and Behavior, also reports that participants were subjectively more preoccupied with food at night even though their hunger and «fullness» levels were similar to other times of the day.

Yet academic scientists have failed to disclose most results on time — within a year of a study being completed or terminated.

Once upon a time, the study of gravity and magnetism were separated by high academic walls.

The MSc programme in Mobilities & Urban Studies is a two years full - time study based on a combination of academic, mobile labs, problem - based learning (PBL) and interdisciplinary approaches based on a multitude of work and evaluation methods.

By the end of the period of doctoral study, students are expected to: The University offers scholarships and financial aid to full - time students, in the form of academic merit scholarships, financial - aid assistance, athletic scholarships, and on - campus work - study programmes.

TIMES ONLINE - Apr 11 - Relationship science is an increasingly respectable field of academic study.

A US study titled Schoolwide intervention to reduce chronic tardiness at the middle and high school levels found that «instructional time lost to widespread tardiness is likely to significantly affect the capacity of the entire student population to meet rigorous academic standards».

When it comes to schooling, most teachers have been successful learners themselves, but, over time, many of the study skills, habits, and academic foundations became invisible to them.

Put aside that it's likely that both the authors of the study and the schools themselves have points in their favor — the full - time virtual charter schools themselves have in the past been transparent about some of their academic struggles, and, at the same time, in their criticism of the study, those same schools are surely right that the characteristics and motivation of some of their students for attending full - time virtual charters makes them quite unlike the «virtual twins» the study purports to have found for the purposes of comparison.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

This activity should extend over a substantial period of time, even an academic year, serving as a fulcrum for integration of the knowledge and skills students are gaining in their academic studies.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

Previous studies measure research excellence based on number of publications, grants awarded, number of citations, peer / department chair rating, time spent on research activities, faculty membership in academic research societies, and awards for research.

At the very least, states with fully online schools should adopt a policy like the one in Ohio, which requires such schools to offer an orientation course — the perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to study, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).

Supporters of homework argue it not only has academic benefits, but also helps youngsters develop important study and time management skills, and gives parents a chance to engage in their child's learning.

the State designated performance level on a State elementary assessment in social studies administered prior to the 2010 - 2011 school year; provided that beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, at which time a State elementary assessment in social studies shall no longer be administered, a school shall provide academic intervention services when students are determined to be at risk of not achieving State learning standards in social studies pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph;

We find that non-cognitive skills are associated with academic subjective expectations of college success and objective performance in college, even after controlling for cognitive ability and time spent studying, but the relationship between specific non-cognitive skills, academic subjective expectations and academic objective performance varies across disciplines.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

In a study of 25 second - grade and 21 fifth - grade classrooms, Fisher et al. (1980) found that the more effective teachers had higher amounts of time allocated to academics and higher pupil engagement than less effective teachers.

This study builds on a previous REL Northwest study that found high school GPA was a stronger predictor of college academic performance than scores on standardized college entrance exams among first - time students at the University of Alaska.

• Work with CSA team to plan and run site for academic, out of school time program serving approximately 100 middle school students • Perform administrative tasks in support of the teachers • Assist with maintaining and organizing site materials at designated school site (either Jackson / Mann K - 8 or Edison K - 8) • Ride the school bus home with Scholars, monitoring bus behavior and safety • Assist in supervising daily study hall

Join us for the 35th Annual Effective Schools Conference Founded upon groundbreaking educational studies and research that has stood the test of time, the mission of Effective Schools has been to create successful educational environments where all children can reach their academic potential.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Students practice the note - taking, time management, study, social and human relations skills they need every day in their academic subjects and in their «real» lives outside of school.

In a cohort study of 9th grade students in the 2004 - 2005 academic year, 67 % graduated from high school on time.

* Study Skills and PE are typically added to a teacher's schedule on top of a core academic subject, and only meet 2 - 3 times each week.

Students practice the note - taking, time management, study, social and human relations skills they need every day in their academic and elective subjects and in their «real» lives outside of school.

Middle School faculty act as advisors to students, offering guidance in areas of academics, study skills, time management, and peer relations.

Studies of students who attend high - quality programs for a significant period of time show improvements in academic performance and social competence, including better grades, improved homework completion, higher scores on achievement tests, lower levels of grade retention, improved behavior in school, increased competence and sense of self as a learner, better work habits, fewer absences from school, better emotional adjustment and relationships with parents, and a greater sense of belonging in the community.