Sentences with phrase «background characteristics»

We also control for a range of background characteristics of children to explore the importance of the duration of poverty against other factors that could impact on child outcomes.

These differences may be partially explained by family background characteristics such as parental education and income.

This has been confirmed by numerous studies, most particularly those that focus on value added for individual students after controlling for background characteristics like socioeconomic status.

Comparing students who are placed in and out of remediation, while also accounting for differences in background characteristics, Long found positive overall effects for students who took the remedial courses.

Our data contain only basic information on student background characteristics, such as gender, race or ethnicity, and eligibility for subsidized lunch.

Across student groups, we could consider achievement levels and behavioral tendencies, as well as background characteristics such as gender, race / ethnicity, and family income.

Research indicates that employers tend to select candidates who have gone to schools like theirs, or possess similar background characteristics.

Most research on the impact of private schools attempts to control for differences in family income and other background characteristics among students attending public and private schools.

Of particular interest is the fact that only a few social background characteristics need to be taken into account in order to eliminate the black - white gap.

As research has demonstrated, school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about one - third of what student and family background characteristics explain.

Various background characteristics of children are explored spanning socio - demographic, socio - economic, parenting and early child development factors.

Put simply, white and black children with similar personal and family background characteristics achieved similar test scores (see Figure 1).

How successfully can they isolate the contributions of individual teachers from student background characteristics like poverty or English language proficiency?

The ratings were based on a complex formula that predicts how students will do — after taking into account background characteristics — on standardized tests.

We calculate the percentage of parents with average background characteristics who would choose the high - satisfaction teacher.

Second, comparisons of baseline test scores and background characteristics revealed only minor differences between the composition of the test and control groups in all three cities.

Black children and white children with similar family background characteristics start school at similar levels of achievement.

The study finds that academic and personal background characteristics explained differences in choices students made directly after high school.

How can background characteristics impact the effectiveness of teachers of at - risk students?

These findings remained significant after controlling for background characteristics and markers of physical health and cognitive functioning.

These data allow for comparisons between children within states who are otherwise similar in their academic achievement as well as in other background characteristics.

It also develops a measure of family adversity (from various social background characteristics), and examines associations between child health and the adversity measure.

«Our data contain only basic information on student background characteristics, such as gender, race or ethnicity, and eligibility for subsidized lunch,» the researchers reported.

Students in private schools do no better than students in public schools, once differences in family background characteristics are taken into account.

Put simply, white and black children with similar personal and family background characteristics achieved similar test scores.

As research has found, school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about a third of what student and family background characteristics explain.

Whether using the randomized lotteries or statistical controls for measured background characteristics, we generally find large positive effects for Charter Schools, at both the middle school and high school levels...

Information on background characteristics such as participants» age, gender, place of residence, and faculty (science or humanities) attended by students was collected.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

Overwhelmingly at the age of 15, the emotional and cognitive engagement with the school is overwhelmingly still driven by the individual background characteristics.

However, the availability of longitudinal data from GUS allows consideration of changes in key background characteristics which may affect social development such as change in family type or child health.

Background characteristics differed little between women choosing home or hospital birth (table 2).

Since each probe and probe set has different background characteristics (depending of cross hybridization, secondary structure, etc.), comparing expression values across different probesets in a single sample is generally not recommended.

This argument, interestingly enough, is the precise opposite of one of the primary arguments against the testing and accountability provisions of NCLB: We should not hold schools responsible for low achievement, because achievement is affected by student motivation and family background characteristics beyond the school's control.

Using these finer grained data, our main approach is to compare the outcomes of individuals with similar background characteristics born in the same school district but who attended public schools during different years (when per - pupil spending levels may have been different)-- i.e., an apples - to - apples comparison.

Especially noteworthy is the fact that data are available from the same student in two different subjects taken from two different teachers, which enables us to account for educationally relevant characteristics of students that can not be ascertained by conventional background characteristics.

We do, however, adjust for background characteristics when testing whether differences in parents» responses across the three sectors are statistically significant.

Student and family background characteristics used in the analysis include a student's gender, immigration status, exposure to early childhood education, the number of books in the home, and parental occupation and work status.

But once the data are adjusted for the effects of the key background characteristics identified above, black students appear to lose much more ground than they do in the raw averages, falling 0.16 standard deviations in math and 0.19 standard deviations in reading relative to white students (see Figure 1).

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

Databases with student test scores and background characteristics provide similar information, but they require greater expertise to analyze than do already - adjusted value - added scores.

Second, «there is no clear way to divide test takers from different countries into social class groups that reflect comparable social background characteristics relevant to academic performance.»

The data show that the two groups of students had nearly indistinguishable background characteristics and were located in similar schools.

Researchers will evaluate how background characteristics such as gender, race, eligibility for special education, and eligibility for Limited English Proficiency programs interact with factors such as GPA, behavior, number of course Fs, and attendance.

Most studies put the school - based contribution to what is commonly called the «achievement gap» closer to 20 %, with about 60 % attributable to «student and family background characteristics [which] likely pertain to income / poverty» and the other 20 % unexplained.

At the outset, your Honolulu insurance quotes for a home policy will be determined by the size of your house, its distance from the fire department, and certain background characteristics of your own, such as insurance history and credit score.