Sentences with phrase «understanding of their academic progress»

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Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

«The Government has made some progress ensuring we have technical and professional pathways to match the quality of the well understood traditional academic ones, but there is still much to do.

For the first time since 1990, math scores dropped for fourth and eighth graders in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the country's most respected tool for measuring how well students understand key academic concepts.

Some community leaders and elected officials understood that measuring the academic progress of all students would help ensure that poor or minority students were not bypassed.

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A bill filed in the state Senate, «NC Comprehensive School Accountability,» seeks to strengthen oversight for the voucher program, but it only deals with limiting the choices of standardized tests private schools can administer in an effort to make students» academic progress more comparable and more easily understood.

'' seeks to strengthen oversight for the voucher program, but it only deals with limiting the choices of standardized tests private schools can administer in an effort to make students» academic progress more comparable and more easily understood.