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.
Not exact matches
A PowerPoint presentation
provides background on the bacteria, what role they play in disease, their
characteristic structure and how they can acquire antibiotic resistance.
The ACER report
provides an analysis of Australian students» financial literacy
background in the context of student
background characteristics: Indigenous
background, geographic location, immigrant and language
background, and socioeconomic
background.
Experiments, which
provide the most credible results, are rare in education, and relatively few studies that address students» outcomes observe the professional norm of having detailed controls for students»
background characteristics (including previous academic achievement).
Joyce Van Tassel - Baska, a nationally known expert on gifted education, speaking at Helios» Fall 2011 event, «The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children: What Educators, Parents and Therapists Need to Know»
provides background on
characteristics of gifted children, strategies to help parents deal effectively with kids and educators, and an excellent list of resources.
Because we rarely have information on the
background of our pups prior to their entering our care, we are unable to
provide exact birthdates, and our estimates of breed mixes are based on physical
characteristics.
Some of the
characteristics of the city and its people will be discussed here to
provide ethnographic
background for the more specific information on psychiatric disorder to follow.
Ethical and knowledgeable
background screening companies (those who
provide credit reports to employers for employment - related decisions) have long advised a policy of running credit reports for positions only where there is a clear corollary between job necessity and the
characteristics that can be extrapolated from the credit history information.
A CRA includes companies like Trak - 1 that
provide background screening services or any kind of report that relates to the general
characteristics, and CRAs are governed by the FCRA, as are the end users that use Trak - 1 services.
We selected the PCL - C score of 50 and above as the standard cut - off due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture on the frequency of healthcare workers» encounters with traumatic events and the DSM - IV - TR criteria for PTSD.2 Previous studies have
provided valuable information regarding the prevalence of PTSD among doctors and nurses.28 — 31The prevalence of PTSD among the healthcare workers exposed physical violence in our study was similar to that reported in Atlanta.54 However, the prevalence rates of PTSD in these studies were different from the present study, 55 56 which might be attributed to differences in the studies» sample
characteristics, designs, definitions and diagnostic criteria for PTSD, due to their varied cultural
backgrounds.