The phrase 'students mate' is not grammatically correct in written English. However, the phrase 'student mate' (with only one 's') can be used in written English to refer to a friend of a student, especially in informal contexts. For example: My student mate and I always meet for lunch during the school holidays.
The individual influence of each independent variable on students' MATE scores was tested using ordinary least-squares regression analyses for continuous variables, and for each categorical variable a one-way ANOVA was completed.
Furthermore, when we followed our first year students' MATE mean values in the next academic year, we realized that students who for the first time over the last 50 years, had to study evolution for their university entrance exams, they presented an original mean MATE value significantly higher than the preceding cluster of students.
Chilton was stunned by the transformation of his old student mate.
"Apparently, some veterinary student mates of his anathesitised the piglet, stuck an apple in its mouth, put it in an esky and piled sandwiches on top before waltzing through what was a more innocent and less suspecting security in those days".
We've delved back into to her upbringing in the pretty East German town of Templin, some 50 miles from Berlin, and spoken to childhood friends and student mates who knew her at a time when politics was more dangerous and tricky.
Question 13 (multiple choice) assesses the student mating scheme by asking about the gender choices of the first cross.
Since joining the university, he has become very popular with his fellow students, team mates and with the many staff that have taught him throughout his time with us".
We defined "evolution understanding" as a latent variable measured by students' acceptance (MATE score - Additional file 2, questions #1-20) and knowledge (KEE score - Additional file 2, questions #33 and #34) of evolution.
To see why the latecomers had an edge, Coyne and graduate student Catherine Price mated some females first with a fly whose sperm contained green fluorescent protein (GFP), and then with a normal male.
Regardless of what students believe, and MATE responses indicate that some students continue to hold beliefs that are not completely consistent with evolution, students showed an improved understanding of the methods and evidence supporting evolutionary theory, which was responsible for the increased MATE scores.
At the beginning of the exercise and after the first mating, students selected from the "environment before selection" sticks, and after the second mating they selected from the "environment after selection" sticks.
