Sentences with phrase «background characteristics identified»

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).

Not exact matches

A proof - of - concept study finds that it is possible to identify an individual's ancestral background based on his or her fingerprint characteristics — a discovery with significant applications for law enforcement and anthropological research.

We identify a number of background characteristics (e.g., undergraduate GPA) as well as screening measures (e.g., applicant performance on a mock teaching lesson) that strongly predict teacher effectiveness.

The second approach, typically associated with value - added models (VAMs), controls for student background characteristics and under some conditions can be used to identify the causal effects of schools and teachers.

By looking at differences in the growth of student achievement across different teachers instead of concentrating on just the background and characteristics of teachers, it was possible to identify the true impact of teachers on students.

Various background characteristics of children were explored to identify the children most likely to score in the borderline or abnormal ranges of each of the SDQ scales at entry to primary school.