Sentences with phrase «weaker students from»

In some schools and districts, test score increases may reflect less an improvement in teaching and learning than a loss of weaker students from the test - taking pool.

Not exact matches

NYU President Sexton heads up the third most expensive university in the country (and, yes, my alma mater), but even he admits that this model is far from perfect and that there are too many universities charging students too much for too weak an education.

Last week I had drinks with one of my former Peking University students and we discussed some of the ways the global economy might react to a world adjusting from a global crisis with weak demand and excess liquidity.

Student - athletes will benefit the most from reduced exposure to potentially injurious blows and from what one calls the «conundrum of having to self - report an injury that they may not recognize as being potentially injurious or dangerous in the moment of competition,» or, as recent studies suggest, that athletes know are potentially dangerous but choose not to report because they fear being punished by the coach for doing so, such as by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring in front of teammates that reporting symptoms made them «weak» or less «manly»; and

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

You'll need a total of 10 reference letters, including two from colleagues who like you but resent your tenure bid, one from the department head who has a disincentive to let you step on his or her turf, one from your graduate adviser whom you haven't seen in 10 years, one from a «superstar» in your field that will be ghostwritten by a secretary, two from foreign collaborators from countries where praise is considered weak, and three from students you've slept with.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

With Functional Warrior I, students gain better insight into their body from a Mountain Pose perspective or neutral, and begin to see the blueprint of their bodies; what is tight, short, slack, strong or weak.

If a university student whose diet consisted of pizza and ready meals and whose antioxidant intake consisted solely of potatoes (which are weak for antioxidants) swirled ginger into his milk daily, he could see huge improvements in his skin, just from a simple trick like that.

Excellent class for students looking to prevent or manage low back pain resulting from a weak or «unresponsive» core.

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

This resource allows a student to choose a weak topic area of theirs (personalised learning) from a menu of 48 topics and instantly opens a printable PDF of past SATs questions specific to that topic.

AO1 - Black AO2 - Red Power point which has some tasks and helps students to write paragraphs with the AO1 / then AO2 format Also couple easy to get work book pages (adapted from someone else) This helps weaker students

When work is returned to the student, they can improve on their weakest area (in DIT time) by doing an activity from the document and marking off which one they have completed on their colour chart.

I have tended to test student's ability to complete the grid accurately from memory, then got them to correct mistakes or fill in gaps in a different colour pen to identify weak areas - I then revisit the activity periodically to assess improvements in knowledge.

«When close reading is done well, you have weak readers who never would never have had the chance to deal with rich, complex text in the ballgame, grasping it, learning from it, and feeling good about it,» notes reading specialist David Liben of Student Achievement Partners.

Students learn an understanding of the necessity for group endurance, where individuals gain strength from the group, and where the stronger help the weaker, the competent the less competent and the stoic the discouraged.

Conversely, Poland and Slovakia are particularly weak at educating students from families with less education, given the performance of those from families with high education.

It is often suggested that there is a trade - off between the value of targeting resources to weaker students, and the costs imposed on them by separating them from stronger students.

More able students were able to infer ideas from their research and responses of greater depth, showing greater understanding, which they then explained to the weaker members of the group.

It covers: Acids and Bases Titrations Strong Acids and Weak Acids Reactions of Acids The Reactivity Series Separating Metals from Metal Oxides Redox Reactions Electrolysis Electrolysis of Aqueous Solutions It not only covers and explains important aspects of this topic, but also includes questions within the powerpoint for students to complete for themself!

To give but one of several examples, the authors offer a nuanced discussion of ability grouping in schools that highlights the potential tensions between the value of improving the performance of the weakest students and the consequences of increasing the gap between them and the most gifted, since the latter are likely to reap the greater gains from ability grouping.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

weak effort or disruption should never result, as it often does today, in suspension and then return to the same class, but rather in separation from the students who are working hard, with intense remediation intended to allow a new start in a new class the next quarter.

Sept. 9, 2016, LANSING, Mich. - «The findings from «Back to School Report» from the Michigan League for Public Policy of rising tuition and weak state support that is resulting in an increased financial burden for students are extremely disappointing.

Based on what we can infer from other research, weak teacher workforces often disproportionately harm disadvantaged student groups.

In addition, since these assessments are self - report surveys, there is also the issue of response bias — meaning a student's tendency to give answers that they believe are socially acceptable or to consistently answer «yes» or «no» regardless of the question asked.48 Since self - report measures tend to be weak in reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high - stakes accountability systems.

Worksheets, workbooks, practice tests, and any other canned assignments stop students from learning and turn average teachers into weak ones.

Critics, in turn, say that Success Academy's academic outcomes need to be regarded skeptically: The network's «high expectations» can prevent certain students from enrolling and can push out weaker students who have enrolled.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

Illinois, on the other hand, uses student and teacher data from the 5Essentials Survey to differentiate schools.65 A 10 - year Chicago study found that schools that were strong in at least three of the five survey elements — which include effective leaders, collaborative teachers, supportive environment, involved families, and ambitious instruction — were significantly more likely to improve student learning than schools that were weaker in these domains.66

- Data from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment shoes that, in a single year, students with the weakest 5 % of teachers made a half - year's worth of reading gains on standardized tests, while those with the top 5 % of teachers gained a year and a half.

In my classroom, I encouraged my students by focusing on the positive, by grouping students together so weaker students could learn from leaders.

Cantor said Wednesday that he wants more «school choice» — allowing parents to pull students from weak public schools and enroll them in a better traditional, charter or private school, with tuition ideally paid with federal money.

Chicago researchers tracked students from closed schools and found that most ended up in academically weak schools and, except for the few students attending high - scoring schools, were no better off academically one year later (de la Torre & Gwynne, 2009).

In opposition, Mr Gove had spoken of the need for reform, saying: «The situation that we have at the moment is flawed and it's a situation which leads students, particularly in weaker schools and particularly from poorer backgrounds, to be led into making choices which are not good for them.»

Such criticisms may have only been bolstered by last week's report from Duke Law School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counterparts.

For example, some students are creative and write imaginatively but do poorly in history because weak memory skills prevent them from retaining facts.

Plus, some of them may not come from reliable sources that would help students distinguish the difference between a weak and strong statement.

I'm clipping coupons in the short run, running credit risk while I don't see any major credit risks on the horizon aside from weak sovereigns (think the PIIGS), student loans, and weak junk (ratings starting with a «C»).

A third possible concern about this exercise in the first - year legal writing and analysis course is that first - year law students can not internalize and then transfer the insights from reading and discussing the weak memorandum to their own papers.

That is the primary reason that students are discouraged from writing a them — because it's naturally going to look weak and fragile compared to a seasoned professional.

The job of a graduation begins from identifying the weak students who face the risk of not clearing their exams due to poor academic record or lack of attendance.

Even with Britain's exit from the EU progressing, the relatively weak Pound has attracted additional applications from non-EU students, with their numbers rising 5 % over the last year.