The researchers devised an academic game to test the students' competitiveness and found that the girls, on average, are significantly less competitive than the boys.
Our proposed pedagogical model enhances students' professional competitiveness by providing students with valuable research skills as they work on a problem to which they can relate.
It's been almost 15 years since the US Congress passed the much-derided No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education reform bill in an effort to improve American students' international competitiveness in reading and math, which had been falling for quite some time.
The conference addressed U.S. students' global competitiveness -- or lack thereof -- on exams.
And today Massachusetts leads the nation in economic competitiveness, student achievement, health care coverage, life sciences and biotech, energy efficiency and veterans' services.
More than half of the students linked ambition, the No. 1 response, with fellow Dalton students, followed by competitiveness, mentioned by 43.8 percent of those surveyed, and intelligence, cited by 37.5 percent.
Unlike those who were blindsided by the recession after they started school, the class of 2013 knew even as first-year students that their competitiveness depended on getting internships, studying abroad and choosing their majors carefully.
The Sports Done Right initiative in Maine seeks to change the culture of competitiveness for student athletes.
In today's volatile higher-education marketplace, we have little choice but to offer comfort, convenience, and competitiveness for student security and success, and to provide a kind of educational experience that may seem foreign to anyone over 30.
The listing uses such criteria as students' SAT scores, admissions competitiveness, schools' financial resources, alumni giving rates, graduation rates and student-faculty ratio.
A recent study of students in the Netherlands explores one possible aspect of that complexity: the influence of average differences in competitiveness on students' choices of curricula.
