Sentences with phrase «by socioeconomic indicators»

There are very few districts such as Raleigh that have at any point actively tried to desegregate schools by socioeconomic indicators, and the small size of districts in many states makes it impossible in a practical sense to try.

Not exact matches

To develop robust indicators of ecological health and socioeconomic benefits that can be utilized by resource managers.

Its validity and sensitivity as an indicator of socioenvironmental influences on development have been demonstrated by evidence that it explains significant variance in childhood cognitive functioning over and above that attributable to socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal education.40, 41 Its validity for use with black samples has also been established.42 Because of safety considerations, the HOME was administered in the laboratory.

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

To their credit, Tschann and colleagues controlled for some important factors related to socioeconomic status (SES) and child characteristics (child's gender, hours worked weekly by mother, and two vs. single - parent households) but did not include other important indicators of SES such as parental age or education.