He argued: «Research suggests that if you take out
the different school factors and you compare the achievements of children in the same school it would be as small as 0.02 per cent of the difference, so it's clearly not a geographical thing, it's a wide - spread issue across the board.»
Not exact matches
Mauro F. Guillà © n of the Wharton
School and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Sandra L. Suà ¡ rez of Temple University's Department of Political Science explore the economic and structural
factors that affect the growth of the Internet in
different countries in their paper «Developing the Internet: Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective.»
It may be an arrangement that
factors out
different aspects of the
school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent
schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate
school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the
school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the
school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the
school being a residential community.
Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the
different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these
factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high
school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.
While an increase in lunch participation can be attributed to many
different factors, there was consensus among Knox County
School Nutrition staff that more students enjoying the food at breakfast has been a good marketing tool for eating school
School Nutrition staff that more students enjoying the food at breakfast has been a good marketing tool for eating
school school lunch.
Researchers from the Texas A&M
School of Public Health, the University of Michigan and the University of Georgia analyzed national health statistics to gain a better understanding of how
different socioeconomic
factors affect the prevalence of diabetes and prevention and management of the disease.
Atwell, a PhD candidate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, says it is difficult to quantify the contributions of
different factors to the resurgence of pertussis and that it is a multifaceted issue.
«This is the very first time researchers have looked at the proportions of mutations within
different cancer types and assigned them to these three
factors,» said lead author Cristian Tomasetti, assistant professor of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, referring to heredity, environmental and random
factors.
Each affiliated fair may send a pre-determined number of projects to the Intel ISEF (as
factored by participation and high
school population) to compete in 22
different categories.
As mentioned previously, a large literature inspired by the Coleman Report has compared outcomes of individuals exposed to
different levels of
school spending without accounting for the possibility that changes in spending may have resulted from
factors that also directly affect the outcomes of interest.
The Society of British and International Design, looks at the importance of
different design stages and how finance managers should prioritise
school design as a prime
factor in their budgeting.
The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same
schools and in
different schools, controlling for various
factors including student background and prior performance.
Such students make
different choices not because of unmeasured characteristics, but because of a
factor out of their control: the distance from home to the nearest charter
school.
The 25
schools scored themselves out of 10 across
different factors relating to educational changes, such as pupil behaviour, attitude and participation in extra-curricular activity.
These sites all offer users the ability to compare their
school with others in the same
school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in
different states), and a few rank
schools based on test performance or other
factors.
A previous investigation by
Schools Week revealed that the only
school - led
factor that caused volatility in results linked to swings in GCSE pass rates was moving a large number of pupils into
different exams each year.
In the case of truancy prevention, implementation is particularly challenging because staff need to identify and respond to a variety of
different factors underlying the absenteeism — from parental substance abuse to
school bullying to transportation challenges.
The graph shows that students in these three ICSEA - based groupings of
schools have
different average reading levels and gives some indication of the influence of socioeconomic
factors on between -
school differences in student performance.
Different schools give different reasons for this shift, but the underlying factor is the possibility that in an unstructured setting, young people may be unnecessarily bruised, either physically or emo
Different schools give
different reasons for this shift, but the underlying factor is the possibility that in an unstructured setting, young people may be unnecessarily bruised, either physically or emo
different reasons for this shift, but the underlying
factor is the possibility that in an unstructured setting, young people may be unnecessarily bruised, either physically or emotionally.
Though the methods of each
school are
different, the common
factor is that the needs of the children are the main concern.
«While those five
factors are not representative of all
schools it's helpful for teachers to know that these are the
different ways students think about responsibility so that in their engagement with students and the way they structure their curriculum, develop policies in
schools, this is part of the knowledge base that can inform their decision making.»
When all
factors are taken into account, there is a surprising lack of any significant relationship between
different school types and levels of student achievement.
Another
factor that likely explains Florida's
different scenario is the repeated claim by state education leaders, newspapers, and some members of the public that many charter
schools in the state are engaged in profiteering and private enrichment, with support from powerful political allies in the state legislature and governor's office.
Although we can not say for sure why charter and pilot
school effects are so
different, a number of
factors seem likely to be important.
A critical
factor limiting the capacity of
school administrators to choose more effective textbooks is that there is virtually no evidence on how
different textbooks affect student achievement.
Although many
different factors are likely at play, one of them might be that the effects of reading practice are cumulative over a student's
schooling, especially when it comes to vocabulary.
Then we move to a more detailed discussion of the ways in which
school - level and classroom - level
factors interact to create
different instructional environments.
A thoughtful
school principal will look at all the
different factors that affect good teaching.
As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to
schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to
different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.
The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in
different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it
factors in parental donations when determining
school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40
Online learning can similarly be divided into several
different types, based on various
factors, such as whether it concerns educational or corporate use (online
schools vs corporate training), the mode of consumption (web based, mLearning etc.), or even the scope of each individual learning unit (e.g. microlearning).
In the first of a series of blogs, I will be exploring new NFER data on
school choice — whether parents believe they have a choice, what
factors are important considerations in making a choice and parents» understanding of the
different school types that are on offer.
CEPA researchers examines a wide range of issues, including how to best measure student success, what
factors predict and promote student success, and how
different types of teacher instruction,
school programs, and education policies can improve student achievement.
That assessment about the effectiveness of a
school within the context of its intake and other local
factors is a completely
different matter.
Her team created a «risk load» assessment, noting how much 18
different risk
factors are affecting every public elementary
school in the city.
As for why his group came to a
different conclusion than the one reached by Hanushek and other skeptics, Johnson suggested that earlier efforts to find a a connection between
school spending and results were simply confounded by the range of
factors that affect the kinds of adults that kids become.
In trying to raise achievement levels in our
schools, we're failing to acknowledge a critical
factor: Students are
different from each other.
While magnet
schools are public
schools open to all residents of Connecticut and appear to select students randomly based on a lottery, in truth, there are many subtle
factors determining which students end up at
different schools.
Connecticut has a whopping 12
different factors in its
school rating plan, including academic achievement and growth on tests (52 percent) and graduation rates (15 percent), chronic absenteeism (7.4 percent) and physical fitness and access to arts classes (3.4 percent each).
Important topics for the network are aspects of policy or practice with regard to data use that have positive impacts in
different countries» contexts;
factors that hinder or enable the use of data; effects and side effects of data use; definitions of effective data use (i.e. what does data use in
different countries look like); support of
schools in the use of data; and characteristics of effective professional development in the use of data.
As the LA Times says, «The dashboard has morphed into a tough - to - understand jumble of pie charts, ratings and text offering measurements of a
school's performance on nearly a dozen
different factors, some obviously relevant and others not so much.»
The extent to which these
different modeling decisions matter depends on three
factors: the correlation between each of these variables and student achievement; how inequitably students are distributed across
different classrooms and
schools; and how inequitably teacher quality is distributed within and across
schools.
There are many
different factors that can lead to a
school shooting.
Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other
factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically
different between students in choice
schools and students in traditional public
schools.
We can begin to understand the many variables that contribute to achievement gaps by examining how these
factors might affect the
school system at 3
different levels: district /
school leadership, classroom, and student.
First, measuring growth at the student level removes confounding
factors (
different groups of students, demographic shifts, cohort effects, differential standards across grade levels, etc.) that create variation in proficiency rates unrelated to
school performance.
My hypotheses going in to this study is that when first looking at choice
schools on student achievement I would see a positive effect because of selection bias; I expected that the students in choice
schools would be systematically
different from those in traditional public
school due to parental
factors that affected their selection of a choice program.
Indicator systems were designed because decisions about
school effectiveness should be based on many
different factors.
I use an exploratory
factor analysis to identify four distinct components of administrators» feedback to teachers and show that
different components predict
different types of personnel decisions in
schools.
Our
school profiles now include important information in addition to test scores —
factors that make a big difference in how children experience
school, such as how much a
school helps students improve academically, how well a
school supports students from
different socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, and whether or not some groups of students are disproportionately affected by the
school's discipline and attendance policies.