Sentence examples for study of academic from inspiring English sources

In a recent study of academic achievement, 45% of American students made no gains in their first two years of university.

The book, "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement" (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), is by John U. Ogbu, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a well-known figure in the field of student achievement for more than three decades.

Pavela's (1978) definition provides a useful starting point for the institutional identification and study of academic dishonesty (Lambert and Hogan 2004; Whitley and Keith-Spiegel 2002).

This paper presents a comparative case study of academic group leaders, active in three different scientific fields at a leading Swiss technical university.

In Xu's (1991) study, self-rated English proficiency, though not a traditional predictive validity study of academic success, was the most significant predictor of the perceived level of academic difficulty while the TOEFL score was not found to be significant.

The study of academic discourse in its various aspects has attracted much attention in genre analysis over the past two decades, to make explicit the values upheld and practices endorsed in various academic communities (Samraj 2004).

Regression analysis is one of the most commonly used methods in prediction studies of academic success (McKenzie & Schweitzer, 2001; Li et al., 2010).

It also highlights case studies of academic staff in the UK and the University of Zimbabwe who have been on industrial secondment and finally recommends a way forward to enrich engineering education.

Although instruments to measure belonging specifically in biology contexts have not yet been published, other studies of academic sense of belonging suggest appropriate strategies.

Studies of academic achievement have attempted to further clarify these cognitive difficulties and report that children with DS22q11.2 perform better at reading and spelling than arithmetic [ 13].

While in prison he returned to the discipline of academic study and joined the Nation of Islam.