As Pittinsky pointed out, that is quite a different approach from the current one, which assumes little about the knowledge of individual students, teaching the same syllabus to each person that is enrolled in a specific course of study.
While this might seem a reasonable course of action, a recent Department of Commerce study on C-17 termination contradicts the QDR's underlying cost savings assumptions.
"Call handlers can help people find the right course, whether it is a one-week intensive driving course or a year-long study of floristry, " she added.
My best guess is that absent a much more rigorous course of study, an end to our obsession with skills-focused education, and getting over our long-standing aversion to a content-rich curriculum, you will over time see a fadeout.
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And we've put in place a very comprehensive study over the course of five years -we're about a year into it - to really try to pull this apart.
Immediate drug treatment reduced the likelihood of a repeat seizure in the short term, but over the course of the study both interventions resulted in similar rates of seizure recurrence.
Such a study is, of course, but a straw in the wind.
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He says many American breast cancer patients are already taking letrozole after a five year course of tamoxifen because of the earlier study, but some aren't.
It is, of course, possible to design a study that shows a connection between doctor fatigue and impaired performance.
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Marc Buelens, who teaches in the international MBA program at the Vlerick Management School, in Belgium, now devotes a large part of his leadership course to an extended case study of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
The Big Daddy has long been the Rhodes Scholarship, founded in 1902, which offers postgraduates a year of study at Oxford in England, in any course they choose.
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Yet it has one incontestably beneficial attribute: It requires the physician to study the true cost and benefits of a course of action, and then to present that data to the patient.
During the course of conducting his study, Lyon found out about a second family with exactly the same disease, caused by the same mutation.
Each study used only a handful of patients over the course of two to six months, and some patients were indirectly affiliated with the three doctors who started the firm.
Each study used only a handful of patients over the course of two to six months, and some patients were indirectly affiliated with the three physicians who started the company.
He acknowledged the need for a new course in Iraq, and said the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (chaired by Republican James Baker and Democrat Lee Hamilton) had been helpful.
He enrolled at Cornell University, creating his own course of study, and began designing golf courses while still a student.
The study of a narrow period in depth is, of course, invaluable for developing important skills such as source analysis.
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In particular, the American Cancer Society study finds that women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day.
The study analyzed 43 campaigns that ran over the course of a year through August 2011.
This is the typical refutation of tons of valid research, just point out your own personal success (a study of one)and try to sell it as what of course is the norm, and it is not.
He claims no secret plan to get us out of Afghanistan but believes that, upon becoming president, he would have to study the issue using the full resources of that office before deciding on a course of action?
Of course, this study is subject to the caveats that it: (a) only involved one decision making task and (b) only involved undergraduate students.
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The member states will have received the results of the new study by then and should be in a position to decide a future course.
According to the Luxembourg Income Study, the typical American worker puts in 1, 820 hours over the course of a year.
It is, of course, unfair to conclude from these results that everyone with a low credit score who participated in this study brought financial disaster upon themselves.
Rather than approaching study by considering individual disciplines such as finance, marketing and accounting, the course uses a series of modules which draw information from multiple disciplines.
Steven Lindquist, one of the inaugural students, said the course asks officers to study how an attacker could launch a cyberattack against an Air Force command center or an individual airplane, and to construct defenses.
Half the students in the study said that they had not taken a single course in the previous semester requiring more than twenty pages of writing.
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