Sentences with phrase «use than the academic»

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«Graphene has so much potential for use in many different businesses and many different areas,» says Elena Polyakova, CEO of Long Island, N.Y. - based Graphene Laboratories, whose Graphene Supermarket supplies nanocarbon and graphene products to more than 7,000 enterprise and academic customers.

In the same way that the Internet spent more than two decades in academic and government settings before its use became commercial, the Media Lab believes that a similar gestation could be important for blockchain, too — so it can become secure and reliable enough for mainstream use.

Also, he used the term «philosophers» in its historic rather than in its current academic meaning.

Educators who anticipated that churchmen might use their leverage to obstruct rather than encourage their plans for academic reform withdrew their colleges and universities from ecclesiastical governance.

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.

Please furnish a resume, cover letter, names and contact information of two professional or academic references, and two of your own work samples (preferably one narrative written product and one other sample that uses a graphical, web, video, or other format to convey complex or technical concepts to non-technical audiences) totaling no more than 20 pages.

And perhaps what students need more than anything for these positive academic habits to flourish is to spend as much time as possible in environments where they feel a sense of belonging, independence, and growth — or, to use some of the language of Deci and Ryan, where they experience relatedness, autonomy, and competence.

This may be a stretch for some academics, who are used to an environment in which you get rewarded for your personal contributions and insights rather than your effectiveness as a team player, Widmaier says.

Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men and women authors listed on more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories, published from 2002 to 2016.

Reviewers do not normally have direct contact with authors, and — strangely — the e-mails came from generic - looking Gmail accounts rather than from the professional institutional accounts that many academics use (see «Red flags in review»).

Energy companies, however, may be able to use the Stanford team's data because they often have a better understanding of the subsurface than academic scientists or regulators.

She recently completed a national survey of doctoral candidates and junior faculty that examines how they make choices about working within or outside of the academy and what factors they use when deciding among more than one academic offer.

Using this elegant technological fix, they achieved some of the highest density, highest performance CNTs ever made — especially given that they did this in an academic lab with less sophisticated equipment than a commercial fabrication plant.

The study — conducted by what was then the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the EPA and more than 40 other public, private and academic institutions — singled out as culprits VOCs such as ethylene, a flammable gas used mainly in the production of plastics.

An analysis of more than 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessors.com, where students write anonymous reviews of their professors, found that students most often use the words «brilliant» and «genius» to describe male professors and in academic disciplines in which women and African - Americans are underrepresented.

In industry, an interview with hiring managers and other scientists will be significantly different from an academic interview — more focused on «what can you do for us» than you are used to — but much of the interview will still be science - centered.

Rather than remaining unused on the shelf of a pharmaceutical company or academic laboratory, drug compounds become available for other uses.

«We're using climate data that the U.S. federal government supports, so it's freely available and you can go and find it, rather than needing an academic or scientist to look through a microscope and find it for you.»

«I've used a lot of other kinds of medicines in my practice and this works,» says Leslie J. Crofford, MD, chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Women's Health at the University of Kentucky Academic Medical Center, in Lexington, Ky. «For many, many patients it works better than anything that they've ever tried.»

I mostly agree that we need to study real foods; using supplements and other forms of reductionism, however, can be useful for understanding the mechanisms of how things work, which is of academic interest to some people and is of general utility in better understanding how to restore people to health who have lost it, which might require more than mere return to a traditional diet sometimes.

Marion, exercising an evolutionary maternal reflex, repeatedly criticizes her daughter about everything from her academic talents — or lack thereof — to her indulgent use of not one, but two bath towels, an insignificant act that receives a much more vociferous reaction than, say, when Lady Bird hints that she is considering having sex for the first time.

Never wanting to rest on its breathless trip around the ancient historical landmarks, things begin to pick up again in time for an explosive Istanbul climax that effectively uses sites previously featured in From Russia with Love — an appropriate touchstone for a film whose hero acts more like a globe - trotting James Bond than a fusty book - scented academic.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Students of teachers who hold certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards achieve, on average, no greater academic progress than students of teachers without the special status, a long - awaited study using North Carolina data concludes.

More than two decades of research document that well - designed, effectively implemented SEL programs enhance students» social and emotional skills, self - esteem, bonding to school, classroom behavior, and academic achievement; and reduce disruptive classroom behavior, aggression, bullying, and substance use (Durlak et al., 2011; Greenberg et al., 2003; Sklad, Dieskstra, De Ritter, Ben, & Gravesteijn, 2012; Zins et al., 2004).

The district found that the majority of teachers still used the textbook as the primary resource for instructional planning, rather than the district curriculum or state academic standards.

But what if Dodenhoff were correct that only 35 percent of Milwaukee parents choose, and only 10 percent choose from among more than two schools, using academic criteria for their judgment?

Rather than purely basing performance on grades and academic performance, the use of a work board related activity can help to create an atmosphere of healthy competition where students can benefit from recognition and reward then and there.

Knowing how to unlock these connecting concepts is particularly important when reading academic texts, which use language far differently than we use it as speakers.

In this webinar, the former chief academic officer for Partnerships to Uplift Communities Schools and now the current chief implementation officer at BloomBoard, Kelly Montes De Oca, will discuss how you can drive more effective professional learning across your school or district by using a framework for instructional improvement focused on data and mastery rather than seat time and credit hours.

In addition, under ESSA, for the first time, states must use more than academic factors in their accountability system.

This is a policy I've borrowed from some of the best teachers I've worked with: Set formal office hours and use them to meet with students about more than just academic concerns.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

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.

For more than a decade, we used the Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on test scores and established 800 as proficient on a scale of 200 to 1000.

States must use the same n - size for all accountability purposes, ensuring that a different n - size can not be selected for including English learners in the English language proficiency indicator than for the Academic Achievement indicator or Graduation Rate indicator.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Use of the app for these purposes acknowledges that learning — whether for academic credit, personal needs, or professional development — can occur any time and any place and via devices other than traditional desktop or laptop computers.

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.

The result was more than two years worth of academic growth for 100 percent of my students within the course of a single school year, as measured by NWEA»S Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment, a computer adaptive interim assessment tool that teachers can use to evaluate student learning growth periodically throughout the schoacademic growth for 100 percent of my students within the course of a single school year, as measured by NWEA»S Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment, a computer adaptive interim assessment tool that teachers can use to evaluate student learning growth periodically throughout the schoAcademic Progress (MAP) assessment, a computer adaptive interim assessment tool that teachers can use to evaluate student learning growth periodically throughout the school year.

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.

All of this is meant to say that using blunt comparisons of test results does not prove that charter schools or public schools are any better or worse than each other in terms of academic performance, or any other characteristic.

More than 100 elementary school teachers from around the Los Angeles school district gathered Monday at Theodore Roosevelt High School in east LA as one of the first group of instructors to learn how to use the Apple iPad, a key teaching device in the academic year that opens next Tuesday.

Collectively, they use more than 30 different assessments to measure reading and math skills and evaluate their programs» academic performance... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Students who completed social - emotional learning interventions fared better than their peers who didn't participate on a variety of indicators — including academic performance, social skills, and avoiding negative behaviors like drug use, finds the analysis, which examined follow - up data from dozens of published studies on specific interventions.

Measuring student academic performance by standard such as the ones outlined in the CCSS is different than more traditional grading methods that are used in most middle and high schools.

Students may have struggled with the math test because the new Common Core - aligned math standard is more difficult than what students are used to, said Carolina Cardenas, CSU's director of academic outreach and early assessment.

Other research shows two in five secondary schools may be commissioning independent alternative provision as part of «off - site alternative provision» and more than one in five may use this for a full academic year or longer for their students.

The record must be set straight when people and foundations use their public office, media position, or academic status to search out and destroy public education rather than engage in constructive dialogue.