The present study has several limitations, besides the low response rate achieved, indicative of the students' low interest in the subject.
Most of the students enrolled in Phage Genomics at Cabrini College were in the honors program, so it is possible that our results are not indicative of the typical biology student enrolled in the yearlong Introductory Biology laboratory course.
To determine whether student profiles from the VABS were indicative of student learning, we compared mean student grades among the four profiles for several biology courses and student scores on the Biology Field Test.
Surprisingly, the student response rate was greater after the course (96%) than at baseline (62%) which could be indicative of greater student engagement following the course.
Kevin Lightfoot, a Xerox spokesman, said the company wouldn't address "unspecified assertions from anonymous sources that we feel are not indicative of the services we provided student loan borrowers".
Scores appeared to be indicative of the year level of the students.
"Research has shown that a test is not indicative of a student's ability," says Beilock, who is the author of a book on performance anxiety called Choke.
Secondly, the performance of this group of students should be indicative of the language competence of Chinese-speaking students who may later attempt higher degrees that will require greater competence within specific styles of English.
Alternatively, the lower gains observed in state college students may be indicative of the amount of time needed for students to develop skills between the pre- and posttest in order to observe gains.
across all courses observed, because this student code is the most indicative of student passive behavior in response to faculty lecturing ("Lec") with or without real-time writing ("RtW").
