Sentences with phrase «which analyzed student»

It is the only type of consumer debt not decreasing, according to a study from Experian, which analyzed student loan trends from 2008 through 2014.

These include weekly «data meetings» during which they analyze student performance and background characteristics.

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The results from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which are being released on Tuesday, show that teenagers in the U.S. slipped from 25th to 31st in math since 2009; from 20th to 24th in science; and from 11th to 21st in reading, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which gathers and analyzes the data in the U.S.

Students will develop a framework within which to analyze whether a business idea is worth pursuing and a methodology to enable them to apply financial economic principles in ways that add to the value of an entrepreneurial undertaking.

Robert Wuthnow of Princeton is among the students of American religion who have incisively analyzed the ways in which all the churches are split along a left - right, liberal - conservative divide, mirroring the divides within our general culture.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

Two doctoral students in social psychology and an adviser analyzed the casual language of nearly 2 million tweets from more than 16,000 active users to come up with their findings, which were published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Timothy Kirchoff and Michael Bradley have also written on the curriculum review, analyzing the process and pointing out the almost stupefying bafflement with which the administration has responded to waves and waves of student and alumni letters begging them not to remove the theology requirement.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

Local school districts prefer to analyze their August graduation rates, which include students who were unable to graduate with most of their peers in June but made up the necessary credits over the summer.

Working together, they will develop and test a variety of learning experiences in which students use online simulations to model energy - releasing and energy - requiring reactions, analyze and interpret data to make predictions about energy phenomena, and use evidence from their own observations or from simplified versions of scientific articles to explain phenomena and construct and critique arguments.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

Students learn their application when analyzing samples for dyes, such as those occurring on textile fibers; when analyzing samples for the presence of materials such as petrol which may have been used to start fires; or when testing for the presence of illicit drugs in a variety of sample types.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated matters.

And the New York Department of Health recently approached her to suggest a project in which students would trap mosquitoes and use DNA - extraction techniques to analyze them for heartworm.

Using all the existing data that was available, Andrechek, along with MSU doctoral student Daniel Hollern, analyzed 1,172 mouse mammary tumor samples from 26 different preclinical models and was able to compile one of the largest databases to show which strains of mice were best suited to study a particular type of human breast cancer.

Scripps graduate student Elizabeth Sibert and Professor Richard Norris analyzed the microscopic teeth of fishes found in sediment cores around the world and found that the abundance of ray - finned fish teeth began to explode in the aftermath of the mass die - off of species, which was triggered by an asteroid strike in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Stephen Kilgus, an associate professor in the Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Missouri, is analyzing how a new screening tool, which is completed by students, can help teachers identify potential academic, social and emotional problems.

So, in addition to a Student's t - test (which was originally performed) we plan to analyze the data using negative binomial regression.

Some of the gas remained trapped in crystals near the volcanic vents, which were analyzed in the WSU study by doctoral student Klarissa Davis, Michael Rowe, now at the University of Auckland, and Owen Neill, now at the University of Michigan.

There is also a reporting tasks which help student to develop the ability to analyze, synergize and share information as written text.

Research suggests that the whole - class weekly spelling test is much less effective than an approach in which different students have different sets of words depending on their stage of spelling development, and emphasis is placed on analyzing and using the words rather than taking a test on them (see Palmer & Invernizzi, 2015 for a review).

A classroom steeped in the SMPs allows students to actively discover, interpret, analyze, process, practice and communicate — all of which have the potential to move information from working memory into long - term memory, ultimately expanding brainpower and mathematics intelligence.

This variety of sources can leave middle and high school students confused about which techniques to use to comprehend, analyze, and synthesize what's in front of them, as well as which reading to...

But Smarter Balanced saw there was no way they could measure Claim 4 without having students actually engage in a research and inquiry task in which they «analyze, integrate and present information.»

Examples: Students do a gallery walk in which they move in groups from corner to corner, answering questions or analyzing things posted on the walls; they work in teams or at rotation stations; they raise their hands or give the thumbs - up or thumbs - down; they answer questions with their body, putting their left foot out if they think the answer is A and their right foot out if they think it's B.

Students analyze several classrooms at their school, interview teachers, research pets, and make informed recommendations about which pet is right for each classroom.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

After analyzing the students, Barrier reviews the teachers» strengths and teaching styles to decide who will teach which tier.

Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional - development program for upper - elementary school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing teaching, the «Student Thinking Lens» and the «Science Content Storyline Lens,» to analyze videos of teaching practice.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Students analyze and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work explaining which points are most appropriate to inform further development of the work

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

Teachers will need to incorporate lessons that ask students to analyze exemplar oral and written arguments, and they will need to increase the number of writing and speaking assignments in which students argue their opinion about a topic or theme, using text - based evidence as support.

The lesson culminates with a project in which students create their own cereal campaign — from identifying the target market to analyzing nutrition information to creating puzzles and games for the back of the box.

Elsewhere on the same test is a passage about BMX bike racing and a section about a boy sailing around the world, which students are asked to evaluate and analyze through the lens of a companion piece about «smart risk - taking.»

Students are dismissed at 11:45 a.m. on Fridays, after which faculty, along with representatives from key partnering organizations, meet from 11:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. to work on professional development that primarily focuses on analyzing student data.

Researchers Huang, Lin, and Haung (2012) address Graf and Kinshuk (2006) concerns through a study, which analyzed the mediating processes between variables of student learning and learning online.

Project U-Turn, a collaboration among foundations, parents, young people, and youth - serving organizations such as the school district and city agencies in Philadelphia, grew out of research that analyzed a variety of data sources in order to develop a clear picture of the nature of Philadelphia's dropout problem, get a deeper understanding of which students were most likely to drop out, and identify the early - warning signs that should alert teachers, school staff, and parents to the need for interventions.

In a study released by the College Board in 2003 (the panel's majority report cited a 2001 draft version of this study), Brent Bridgeman, ETS's principal researcher, and his colleagues analyzed the degree to which the SAT is «speeded» — or how much the SAT's standard three - hour time limit affects students» scores.

Teachers discuss and analyze student data such as test scores and achievement gaps, identifying areas in which students» needs aren't being adequately met and redesigning the curricula to meet those needs.

Let's create a culture of learning in which we trust students to explore wildly ambitious ideas and activities, and support them to confront and analyze their failures when the need to refine and repeat does (and should) happen.

To explore these questions, we analyze the federal Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, which followed a cohort of 10th - grade students for a decade.

For the end of the year, we wrote an extensive sonnet unit, as the Common Core suggests for 7th - grade students, in which students analyze the impact a sonnet's form has on its meaning.

This variety of sources can leave middle and high school students confused about which techniques to use to comprehend, analyze, and synthesize what's in front of them, as well as which reading to use for higher learning.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

To discern the larger contours of the legal climate facing schools, we analyzed all appellate - level federal and state court cases in which school efforts to discipline and control students have been challenged.

Take students on regular field trips and explorations in which they can continue to identify, record, and analyze field data.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

We have created the conditions in which our students have limitless access to information but limited capacity to organize, analyze, and understand it.