The row is over the timing of student testing in California's elementary and high schools.
The BBC's economics editor, Robert Peston, said the small rise seemed largely due to seasonal factors, such as the timing of student fee increases and sales of Christmas games, and that the overall trend for the CPI was probably still downwards.
The questionnaire findings also indicated that timing of the students completing the practice quizzes influenced their perceptions of their usefulness in supporting learning their own learning (96.6%).
"I made a budget before starting but the timing of my student loan instalments and rental payments made it hard to plan.
The timing of each student discussion session can be determined by the instructor, based on our use of the MMM activity, we recommend 30 50 minutes each.
Previous research has found that participants use more spatial content in their speech when they are allowed to gesture (Rauscher, Krauss, & Chen, 1996), and that the timing of a student's gestures relative to his or her speech is indicative of where he or she is in the learning process: gestures tend to precede speech early in the learning of a concept (Crowder, 1996).
Given the timing of the announcements, students have only a short time to find new coverage before the old coverage ends.
She pointed to widespread frustration at both the timing of the referendum, as students were moving home or to take up summer jobs, and a change in voter registration rules that confused many first-time voters at universities and college.
We do find, however, that the timing of mergers matter; when students are older (e.g., the fourth grade) their grades rise after merging.
Studies investigating the association between the timing of data collection and student ratings have yielded conflicting results: One early study from Washington University (involving 104 second-year students) found that ratings provided at the end of a course were generally lower than ratings provided during the course [ 24].
The threshold 180 days was chosen based on observed patterns in the timing of treatments in the student clinic and has been used elsewhere [ 15].
