The second take-away is less obvious: a vibrant economy fosters work opportunities to flourish for those of widely varying abilities, preparation and ambition, so that at subsequent stages in life, even the presently "disadvantaged" have a shot at finding a more rewarding way through their livelihood years than not.
Professional minor leagues offer gifted athletes, who may lack the ability or preparation for higher education, an alternate path to develop a career in sports.
Admission to the school involves a multi-step evaluation for prospective scholarship and recruited non-scholarship student-athletes in which applicants are judged on athletic ability, academic preparation and engagement.
Information will be gathered about the participant's home environment and functional ability in preparation for the pre-discharge home assessment.
Existing methods for analyzing pre/posttest data can lead to incorrect conclusions, as they do not control for student academic ability and preparation.
To investigate this hypothesis, we collected data on two measures that should reflect student ability and preparation: incoming undergraduate grade point average (GPA) and final grade in the preceding course in the introductory biology sequence.
In general, we recommend that researchers always use student-level regression models that control for possible differences in student ability and preparation to estimate the effect of any nonrandomized instructional intervention on student performance.
To explore the possibility that differences in composition, ability, and/or preparation of the 2009 compared with the 2007/8 students contributed to the significant differences in performance on LBL exam questions, we further characterized the three cohorts.
The problem of student nonequivalence is pervasive, because it is seldom possible to use randomization to control for differences in student ability or preparation (but see Fantuzzo et al., 1989; Buzzell et al., 2002; Aly et al., 2004; Bilgin et al., 2009).
Like all MISTI programs, MIT-France carefully tailors internship and research positions through one-on-one interviews with students, taking into account the students' language abilities, cultural preparation, and previous research or work experience.
