Sentence examples for students incentive from inspiring English sources

Thus, if Prop 209 lowered students' incentive to retake the SAT (perhaps because SAT scores became less important in determining admission), then this is likely to show up as a decline in average SAT scores.

Such explicit expectations give students incentive to master the quantitative skills in addition to the qualitative material.

Universities could develop a "Preparing STEM Professionals" certificate program that would give students' incentive to enroll in these types of courses.

Schools should be making extra efforts to provide courses that give students incentives to strengthen their use of English while they continue expanding their original language.

It would not harm the funding organization if you drew a crowd by offering more advanced students incentives to attend — higher grades, free beer — as long as they might learn something at the conference.

A drop-off occurred, in spite of private donations that keep class sizes small, allow for an extended school day and an 11-month school year, and offer students incentives for good performance like trips to the Galápagos Islands or Disney World.

The principal, Roshone Ault, said she supported teachers in disciplinary matters by bringing in experts in "social-emotional learning" to train the faculty and was offering students incentives like pizza parties for good behavior.

The easy availability of college remediation not only costs extra but undermines students' incentives to work hard in school.

In addition, a number of scholars have pointed out that since policies such as Prop 209 give colleges and universities an incentive to place a greater weight on non-academic factors in determining admissions, they could lower student quality by weakening all students' incentives to invest in their academic qualifications prior to college entry.

In the context of college admissions, Fryer et al. (2008) establish that moving from color-sighted to color-blind affirmative action alters students' incentives to invest in human capital, but their model does not yield definitive predictions about whether investment will go up or down.

"I'm not saying I know this is going to fix everything," said Roland G. Fryer, the Harvard economist who designed the student incentive program, "but I am saying it's worth trying.