Sentences with phrase «use of ability grouping»

It's heartening to note that as the use of ability grouping is increasing a new generation of researchers is bringing sophisticated statistical techniques (and open minds) to bear on questions involving both ability grouping and tracking.

The use of ability grouping dropped significantly in the 1990s.

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In other words, the two groups both said they were testing Twitter's predictive ability; in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

A group of alumni, otherwise unidentified, had asked the bureau whether «an organization which raises funds to be used principally in travel and other activities necessary to interview and persuade prospective students with outstanding athletic ability to attend a particular university» was tax exempt.

Even with those three, one of the real trademarks of this group is the ability juniors Sierra Smith and Naje» Murray to use their speed and quickness to drive the lane, force defenses to collapse and then kick it outside to one of the many 3 - point shooters.

Arts And Crafts For Kids provides helpful artistic advice to children of any ability and age group and shows them fantastic videos on how to create art using material that can be found in the home.

Another perspective for improving maternal care was offered by the group of Young and colleges who tested the potential contribution of musical training in depressed adults to their ability to interpret infant crying in relation to changes in pitch.51 Using auditory recordings of infants crying manipulated such that the pitch of the crying increased gradually to sound more distressed, it was shown that depressed adults with previous musical training showed higher sensitivity in discriminating distress variations in the infant crying.

Another factor in reusable cloth diaper impact is the ability to re-use the diapers for subsequent children, sale of used diapers through the Internet, craigslist [2] or other online communities, donation of used diapers through recycling groups such as freecycle [3] or to charities such as miraclediapers.org [4].

Dr. Smith and colleagues, including Dr. Stephen Rao from the Cleveland Clinic, tracked four groups of healthy older adults ages 65 - 89, who had normal cognitive abilities, over an 18 - month period and measured the volume of their hippocampus (using structural magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI) at the beginning and end of that time period.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

The giants have shown a remarkable ability to use sight and scent to distinguish between African ethnic groups that have a history of attacking them and groups that do not.

«The most important [issue is] the removal of restrictions on the use of nonhuman primates and the ability to reuse animals,» said Simon Festing, chief executive of Understanding Animal Research, a British advocacy group promoting the need for humane animal research.

Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of research looking at the controversial subject.

In 2008 tech industry giants Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, concerned that the job applicants they were seeing were poorly prepared for crucial tasks, began funding their own research through a group called Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S) to identify and promote so - called 21st - century skills — roughly the ability to think critically and creatively, to work cooperatively, and to adapt to the evolving use of technology in business and society.

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

Kraus's team tested the auditory abilities of teenagers aged 14 or 15, grouped by socioeconomic status (as indexed by their mother's level of education, a commonly used surrogate measure).

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

The DOMINO group's futility study enrolled 114 patients with mild to moderate HD, measured using the Total Functional Capacity (TFC), a widely used scale of the effect of HD symptoms on a person's ability to function in daily life.

After just seven days, the group taking the quercetin supplement had a 13.2 % increase in endurance in addition to a 3.9 % increase in VO2max, a measure of the body's ability to use oxygen efficiently and one of the most useful tests for physical fitness.

In the years following her trainings she has been teaching in private and group settings to people of all ability levels using dynamic, gentle, restorative, and meditative forms of yoga.

This remarkable study demonstrated an improvement in sprinting ability in a group of elite male soccer players, after training using (open chain) lying leg curls with eccentric overload.

As usual all of the characters in LEGO The Hobbit have different abilities that force characters to make use of the whole party, which is good because having so many bearded dwarves in your group at once is confusing as hell, but also makes solving puzzles a series of monotonous character - swapping.

Work on large - group projects so you can use your social abilities to divide up tasks and understand all aspects of the project.

My students LOVED it; I've used it with all of my year 7 Computing groups as a fun end of term lesson AND with my lower ability year 9 Computer Science GCSE group as an ice breaker introductory lesson to programming basics.

Then use mixed ability groupings for the remainder of the students.

The program uses Lexile scores, which measure reading ability and the difficulty of the text, to place students in reading groups.

Using a multi sensory approach and a variety of teaching and learning styles to teach a mixed ability group of students has shown better results in my classrooms and I have generated this idea based on my 14 years teaching experience.

Using either of the two not only gives you the convenience of central authentication management and Single Sign On (SSO), that is, the ability for your users to login to all your intranet portals and systems (your intranet portal, mail server, group chat, LMS, etc.) with the same login credentials, but it also helps with the security of your LMS.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

According to data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the frequency of ability grouping's use in fourth grade reading instruction rose about two and a half times, from 28 percent in 1998 to 71 percent in 2009.

Do give some feedback if you use it - what age and ability group, size of class, responses, artwork and poems etc..

You will find the following examples, which you could adapt / tweak to use with different age and ability groups across KS3 - 4: • Three levels of writing frames to support a Y7 French class in writing a paragraph about school.

This resource fits in any module, covering the topic of jobs and plans for the future for KS4 French, but could also be used for students in higher ability groups in Year 9.

Originally used for a lower ability year 9 group as part of a literacy unit, this would suit KS3 students as part of a letter writing scheme of work.

A simple worksheet designed for my low ability Y10 group as a means of helping them express what they study and used to study.

Many teachers feel that they are expected to use ability grouping, and worry about the negative impact of the practice on their children.

White school personnel used policies such as curriculum tracking and special - education referrals as a means of sorting students by race under the guise of «ability grouping» or meeting students» «special needs.»

Once family background and the nature of the peer group at school were taken into account, student achievement was unaffected by per - pupil expenditure, school size, the science lab facilities, the number of books in the library, the use of tracking by ability levels to assign students to classrooms, or other factors previously assumed to be indicators of what makes for a good school.

- Learning Outcomes - Ability to: - Define the economic problem - Identify describe the factors of production - Describe the evolution of economic activity and the use of specialization - Give the meaning of a a business - Identify and describe the most common aims of business - Identify and describe the different groups involved in business activity.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources prepare students for answering Q1 and Q2 and cover the following: - introduction to paper 2 - expectations and timings - identifying key information in 19th century and modern texts - identifying the point of view of a writer - inferring - exploring how language creates tone - complete true or false tasks (as per the exam) for the texts read - explore the term synthesis - synthesise information from 2 texts - work in pairs and groups - explore model answers - investigate these of connectives to synthesise - self and peer assess - develop vocabulary and analyse vocabulary in texts using inference - explore audience and purpose Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources prepare students for answering Q1 and Q2 and cover the following: - structure strip to help form better responses to question 2 (synthesis)- introduction to paper 2 - expectations and timings - identifying key information in 19th century and modern texts - identifying the point of view of a writer - inferring - exploring how language creates tone - complete true or false tasks (as per the exam) for the texts read - explore the term synthesis - synthesise information from 2 texts - work in pairs and groups - explore model answers - investigate these of connectives to synthesise - self and peer assess - develop vocabulary and analyse vocabulary in texts using inference - explore audience and purpose Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.

This could also be used for different year groups depending on the reading ability of the children.

This is a project that I ran successfully with a year 11 lower ability group, but is designed to be easily differentiated for use with higher ability GCSE groups and KS3 groups of all years.

I also intend to use this as the first part of a lesson for a higher ability group.

This lesson explores the beginning of the Balcony Scene - Originally taught at an able group of year 8 students but can be used for different abilities / classes with minimal adaptation.

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Teachers can use these tablets to show content on the front - of - house display and then push this information to the devices of everyone in the class, and assign individuals or groups with different tasks depending on their abilities.

Though tracking and ability grouping are widely used terms, what they actually mean in the contexts of different schools various greatly.