Sentences with phrase «while students gain»

Teachers save time and enhance their classroom instruction with Streams while students gain more personalized instruction tailored to their individual needs.

The unintentional benefit of this program has been that while the students gained a measure of clarity about who they were, their identity, it also expanded the world of the faculty.

Not exact matches

Students can gain real - world experience while getting paid to participate with a world - class startup.»

By leveraging the collective will and sociability of the student demographic — while remaining aligned with universities by collecting data and encouraging department collaboration — the jointly reformed Koofers.com gained enough momentum to grow from a one - campus beta trial in 2006 to a 400 - campus platform in 2009 — and a soon - to - be 1,000 - campus platform this year.

For example, between 2000 and 2009, Korea posted a 15 - point gain in reading on the OECD's PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) while Canada posted a 10 - point decline.

International Consulting Projects Under the supervision of a Rotman faculty member, MBA students work on and deliver an in - depth study of a specific country or region, while gaining real - time experience.

They are one of a range of opportunities that help our students to gain international experience while at Rotman.

Whether it's class size and composition issues, downloaded costs to school boards without the extra funding to cover them, or public sector workers who previously accepted «net zero» or cooperative gains settlements, a balanced budget might be hard to achieve while keeping educators, parents, and students happy.

And my third claim is a corollary: While some students can profit greatly from a full three years at an ecumenical seminary, all ministers can gain much from having a segment of their preparation for ministry there.

Spending one to two hours a day in the world of words, students will gain valuable writing skills while unleashing their creativity in a lively and collaborative small - group setting.

«It gives teachers a chance to gain focus, and students have something to snack on while they wake up and the teacher leads them through their morning.

The partnership will establish a collaborative relationship where Le Moyne's Madden School of Business students have access to SU in the areas of data science and information security management, while SU students gain access to Le Moyne's health information systems and enterprise systems resources.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

And let's not forget the iPod generation, now struggling to pay off student loans and gain a toehold on the housing ladder while half their earnings disappear in tax to fund pensions and healthcare for an ageing population.

With the Raspberry Pi Projects Kit, students gain computer programming skills while working on making fun, creative games and individual projects, many of which involve craft - and art - based projects that kids can touch and interact with to see (and hear) the effects of the programming.

The success of this study may provide the foundation for an improved program for high school students to foster their interest in research and gain invaluable experiences outside of the classroom while providing bacteriophages that can serve as the base chassis of synthetically engineered phages for diagnosis and treatment of MDR pathogens.

While particularly beneficial for students and postdocs soon to transition to their selected career paths / new positions, the information and insight gained from this workshop will benefit anyone wondering how to best articulate their professional uniqueness.

While completing her project, this student gained hands - on experience in life sciences and a better understanding of how exercise can keep lungs healthy.

«The Blumberg Institute is an ideal environment for graduate students to focus their career interests while gaining access to what may be an unprecedented learning ecosystem in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,» said Timothy Block, Ph.D., president and co-founder of the Blumberg Institute and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County.

Internships and Summer Jobs These positions are for current students seeking to gain relevant work experiences to their fields of study while in college.

With 21 years experience, Diana understands the benefits of yoga practice, the body's response to each pose, while allowing each student to gain experience to go deeper into their own practice.

While the concept isn't new, it's gaining popularity with college students, especially at the University of Texas and Texas State University.

While we know that satisfaction surveys are not as important as student learning gains, these are still welcome and leading indicators of improvement.

Research has demonstrated that students just below the bar were most likely to make large gains in the NCLB era, while high achievers made lesser improvements.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

Every year, one million Networking Academy students worldwide gain the skills needed to build, design, and maintain computer networks; improving their carrer prospects while filling the global demand for networking professionals.

In the Indiana study, the most rigorous program estimates come from an individual fixed - effects analysis, where the achievement gains of students while in the voucher program are compared to their achievement gains when not in the program.

While these schools succeed in generating test - score gains for students of all cognitive abilities, it is still the case that students with strong fluid cognitive skills learn more.

Somerset County would benefit from a shift to portability (gaining an estimated $ 143, 9 percent of its current allocation, per eligible student) while Baltimore City would lose about 5 percent of its current allocation per eligible student.

While child poverty remains a stubborn enemy, the federal anti-poverty initiative launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson has led to health and IQ gains for disadvantaged students.

Seating students in heterogeneous groups maximizes the learning environment: weaker students see how stronger students learn and approach problems, while stronger students gain a deeper understanding of the subject by teaching it to others, creating a «technical success.»

Moreover, while a sudden policy change could conceivably explain the overall improvements between the two cohorts, it is difficult to see how such a change could cause substantially larger gains among those students actually retained.

With this in mind, schools that empower students to make their own choices and be their own best advocates will allow them to gain valuable experience in managing life's challenges, while helping them to realize their goals and dreams.

The top 10 percent had gained as well, providing no evidence that schools were ignoring the best students while focusing on the kids below proficient and subject to NCLB sanctions.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

For example, one program provides funding for schools based on their students» learning gains, while others give mortgage assistance and tuition forgiveness to those who agree to teach in high - needs schools.

Elementary and older students» knowledge of American history has improved in recent years, but while younger students also have made gains in civics, performance in that subject in the upper grades remains flat, test results released today show.

At the 4th grade level in math and reading, D.C. students gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other districts was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.

While these marginally performing students are likely to benefit from increased attention, reallocation of instructional attention leads to a tradeoff whereby the achievement gains of the marginally performing students come at the expense of both the lowest - and highest - performing students.

But while the latest report confirms performance increases found in the first - year study, it also shows that the gains were not strong enough to get students up to grade level by the end of the school year.

If this practice were the case, the greatest fall - to - spring achievement gains would occur among students around the threshold, while other students would struggle to match expected test - score gains.

At the 4th - grade level, D.C. students in math and reading gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other 10 cities for which comparable data are available was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.

While good teachers get similar gains compared to average teachers, those gains accrue just to the students in a single classroom.

A gain score of zero indicates that a student has kept pace with the average student in the state, while a student with a gain score of 0.25 standard deviations will have improved his or her performance by enough to exceed roughly 10 percent of the state's students.

Although our data do not allow us to address this issue directly while still accounting for the self - selection of students into charter schools, simple comparisons indicate that students who entered charter schools in the later grades made smaller gains in math (but not reading) than students who entered earlier.

Students who learn other languages also gain insights into other cultural perspectives, and intercultural competency, which is defined as the ability to communicate in culturally appropriate ways, while showing appreciation and understanding of others, and maintaining a spirit of openness and respect for others.

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

Even without fancy equipment, Engstrom said, the experience allowed students a chance to get a feel for what life was like long ago while gaining a better understanding of history.