Sentence examples for cornerstone course from inspiring English sources

We felt that a CREATE Cornerstone course focused on scientific thinking could support and build students' science interest at an early phase of their academic careers.

Our findings in the pilot CREATE Cornerstone course suggest that these viewpoints can be changed over a single semester through intensive analysis of scientific literature.

A related motivation for developing the CREATE Cornerstone course was that the biology department at CCNY, like its counterparts elsewhere, loses many would-be majors during the early years of the biology curriculum.

Students in the Fall CREATE Cornerstone course took the CAT (Table 1; Stein et al., 2012), and tests were scored by a trained team at Tennessee Tech University, where this test was created.

After one semester, the freshmen in the CREATE Cornerstone course reported significant increases in four of the seven epistemological categories we surveyed: the uncertain nature of scientific knowledge; the question of whether one needs to have a special innate ability to do science; whether science is creative; and their sense of scientists as "real people".

While these findings must be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size, they suggest that students in the pilot CREATE Cornerstone course made substantial gains in their ability to read, understand, and critically analyze information, and that such gains are transferable to the content domain addressed by the CAT test, which was not related to the material covered in the course.

"Every student will be evaluated each day in each of the cornerstone courses," Mr. Nelson said.

However, at the time I was disappointed in the low level of applied practice I had been exposed to and felt that a formal supervised experience program should have formed a cornerstone of the course.

Junction diodes are fundamental device units and of course cornerstones for understanding physics in OSCs.

Fine-grained naturalism is of course a cornerstone of the American acting tradition.

It was just over 20 years this week that I was lucky enough to be present at a recording, in the old BBC TV Centre, of an early edition of BBC2's Later with Jools Holland, now of course a cornerstone of British music TV for many a discerning and curious music lover.