academic skill

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandskill

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/
us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofacademicandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Furthermore, only theacademicskillintervention yielded effects that maintained for a year posttreatment.
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Music video analysis was added to music analysis as a necessaryacademicskill.
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The latter were designed to simulate theacademicskillof forming a comprehensive and coherent representation of an entire text, rather than focusing on discrete points in the text.
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The goal of the academic center is to offer a comprehensive framework tailored to improve theacademicskillset of each student-athlete.
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The program's intention is on fosteringacademicskilldevelopment and altering behaviors that interfere with academic learning.
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The results showed that academic remediation ameliorated both academic skills and social performance, whereas the social intervention produced gains that were far more limited.
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Surprisingly, the effects of peer dislike were not mediated by earlier constructs of academic skills and antisocial behavior.
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After 4 years of treatment, both groups show similar gains in cognitive, language, social, and academic skills.
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Contrary to expectation, when controlling for early antisocial behavior and academic skills, boys' social preference scores still predicted young adult outcomes.
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Results of the study showed that students scoring low on proficiency were perceived by teachers as having weaker academic skills; they also achieved lower course grades.
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Academic skills, self-care skills, and on-ward behavior with cognitively impaired, chronic psychiatric inpatients.
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Person linkage, however, is much more difficult, more timeconsuming, and far more demanding in terms of the academic skills required.
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In contrast, relatively few teachers endorsed academic skills and abilities such as knowing letters of the alphabet or being able to count to 20 as being key characteristics of readiness.
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Apart from promising personal development and basic academic skills, they offer preparation for tests and interviews in 'big' schools, which children 'sit' between the ages of three and five.
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For too long in this country we have admired academic skills and talents at the expense of practical skills and talents.
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Our educational system is basically geared to the acquisition of academic skills.
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The service which teachers render their pupils does not consist only in imparting knowledge and academic skills.
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The activities encouraged by the cadet movement provide a practical outlet for academic skills acquired in the classroom.
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I come back to the point that schools are acutely aware that the standards of basic academic skills of school-leavers are not high enough.
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