The phrase "a decrease in students" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in student enrollment or attendance in an educational context.
Example: "The school reported a decrease in students this year compared to last year."
Alternatives: "a drop in student numbers" or "a decline in enrollment".
Some teachers are worried about the impact of an influx of middle school teachers and a decrease in students, even though Ms. Weingarten has said no teachers will lose jobs.
Perversely, all of this (plus the constant pressure of grades) leads to a decrease in students' abilities to understand, retain, apply, revere and enjoy what they are asked to learn.
Lacey, of Montgomery, said the results may have been influenced by changing demographics, the increasing popularity of the ACT as an alternative test and a decrease in students who take the SAT more than once.
In two field-experimental studies (N = 18 and N = 49), we investigated whether visual feedback on students' previous procrastination was effective in provoking a decrease in students' future procrastination as well as improvements in self-regulated learning.
In a study by Pfeiffer et al. [ 21], a decrease in students' communication skills was found through the last part of medical school, after an initial increase, especially their skills in obtaining an adequate social history.
However the finding is congruent with a study on teaching communication skills to medical students using a formal structured approach that found a decrease in students' confidence following the program.
On the contrary, Fryer reported that teacher incentives may actually decrease student achievement, especially in larger schools.
Following a decrease in student involvement, a ground swell of student support lobbies the administration for expanded staff support, better public management issue representation in core classes, and more focused faculty involvement.
This can lead to an increase in the number of under- and non-qualified teachers in the field and, tragically, a decrease in student performance and achievement.
However, a growing body of literature generally places a decrease in student idealism around the beginning of the third year of medical school [ 4- 7].
Recently, in a survey of 162 Bachelor of Health Sciences students, however, Hoffmann & Harnish reported a decrease in student interest in pursuing their professions after an IPE mandatory exercise by OT as well as nursing and social work students [ 8].
