Sentences with phrase «educational outcomes as»

A confluence of research has identified executive functioning deficits as a common characteristic of individuals with FASD.9 15 — 27 Damage to neurological structures, including the prefrontal regions of the brain, is a significant hypothesised cause for these deficits.28 29 Executive functions are defined as a set of cognitive processes responsible for orchestrating purposeful, goal - directed behaviour.15 30 31 These processes are responsible for the ability to plan, organise, attend, problem solve and inhibit responses.31 It is also suggested that the ability to self - regulate emotional responses and behavioural actions is interrelated with the construct of executive functioning.17 28 32 Deficits in executive functioning and self - regulation can lead to learning and behavioural problems that impact a child's educational outcomes as they struggle to cope with the complex demands of school life.16 20

Olentangy Virtual Learning Center is an online community school dedicated to helping students in grades 9 through 12 achieve state - specified educational outcomes as well as prepare for secondary education, vocational careers, or other future goals.

In the current educational context, demographics are relatively predictive of educational outcomes as well.

Topics of focus include the effects that income disparity, race, gender, family backgrounds, and other factors can have on educational outcomes as well as the causes, patterns, and effects of poverty and inequality.

Milwaukee's voucher program is known for producing poor educational outcomes as well as rampant fraud and abuse.

If the results of that evaluation confirm the results reported in our current paper, we will have made one of the strongest statements ever that mental health matters, not just for emotional health but for educational outcomes as well.»

Not exact matches

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

Opportunity is offered to our clients to participate in the planning and implementation of their care, as emphasis is placed on an outcome that satisfies emotional, educational, family and spiritual concerns beyond the obvious physical needs.

A decade after Congress passed the No Child Left Behind law, educators are as divided as ever on the law's key goal: how to improve educational outcomes for poor children.

Supportive parents had the best developmental outcomes, as measured by academic achievement, educational attainment, family obligation (considered positive outcomes), academic pressure, depressive symptoms, and parent - child alienation (considered negative).

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Because wealthy white men and women who have children with more than one partner are not the focus of the research on multi-partner fertility, they are largely exempted from conclusions about its dire consequences, such as increased substance abuse, poor educational outcomes and behavioral issues.

Incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo has supported the Common Core standards as a vehicle to improve educational outcomes in New York, but has been sharply critical of the state education department and the Board of Regents for the Common Core's flawed rollout in New York.

Social mobility is too low, educational outcomes for the poor are all too often well below average and entrepreneurialism is well behind many of our competitors (as Allister Heath reported yesterday).

Within this framework, birthweight becomes a useful metric to track because of its link to short - term outcomes, such as one - year mortality rates, as well as long - term outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings, McCoy said.

«In educational technology research, it is well established that technology as a delivery mechanism has no direct impact on student learning outcomes.

However, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of learning outcomes in online charter schools, as well as how they compete for limited educational resources.

A qualitative synthesis of these studies found that SBML improved outcomes in four areas: the educational laboratory, patient care practices, patient outcomes and collateral effects such as reduced healthcare costs.

Social and political determinants impact how healthcare resources such as direct funding, national educational priorities, societal normative gender role assignment, and other factors all contribute to patient outcomes in varying degrees.

«A robust association has been found in the literature between birth weight and outcomes during adulthood, such as health, educational attainment, and earnings.»

«These findings suggest that school - based mental health programs could play an important role in achieving better educational outcomes for whole countries as well as individual children.

Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly used as a reform strategy designed to improve educational outcomes for K — 12 students.

This helps to prevent the overweight / obese children from being singled out and supports and encourages parents to follow suit, as schools have the power to influence and ultimately change health and educational outcomes for life.

Jasmine's doctoral research as well as her clinical experience in the educational setting demonstrates a commitment to working collaboratively with students, parents, teachers, and school personnel to promote a learning environment that achieves the most beneficial outcomes for students.

While this could be seen as damning proof that technology does not have the capability to improve educational outcomes, and instead provides a platform for students to be become distracted from learning, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills, concluded that schools systems «need to find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning».

Yet, educational software has been slow in adopting nudges as a way of improving student outcomes.

In Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

We address this limitation by focusing on the effect of school spending on such long - run outcomes as educational attainment and earnings rather than on test scores.

Studies of early - childhood and school - age interventions often find long - term impacts on such outcomes as educational attainment, earnings, and criminal activity despite nonexistence or «fade - out» of test - score gains.

Self - efficacy, educational aspirations, self - esteem, and attainment make much more sense as potential outcomes that would change as a result of demographically - similar role models.

Distinct from his school department (which, like more than 90 percent of Rhode Island's school districts, is governed by an elected school committee), OCYL's mission was to extend learning time for as many Cumberland children and youth as possible while raising the community's expectations regarding educational outcomes.

Just occasionally are they less equivocal, as when they observe that aggressive integration policies helped black children during the 1970s, that mounting socioeconomic inequality after the late 1980s contributed to the subsequent widening in the test - score gap, and that inequality in the preschool environment plays an important role in determining later educational outcomes.

And policymakers could stand to read these briefs as well to simplify archaic, input - based regulations that don't further educational outcomes for students given today's world — but create a lot of headaches for the educators serving them.

I infer the priorities of administrators and teachers from educational outcomes, as measured by student performance on the state's math test.

Dinham also tackled common misconceptions of how students learn, including the learning styles myth, the danger of pigeon - holing students as being «gifted» or «not bright», and the findings of a project in New South Wales he was involved in looking at leadership for exceptional educational outcomes.

The proposed changes would lead to poorer educational outcomes and require thousands of children (some as young as four) to travel long distances on inadequate road systems to school every day;

The Coleman Report examined the availability of educational opportunities in public schools as well as the factors associated with student educational outcomes.

Moreover, prominent voices in teacher preparation continue to question whether clear - cut measures of student outcomes — such as graduation rates or test performance — are legitimate measures of educational performance.

Whatever their involvement, cooking and food education are too valuable — both in terms of the educational experience as well as the educational outcome — to be an optional extra or a «nice to have».

Defined as perseverance and passion for long - term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4 percent of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among two samples of adults; grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates; retention among two classes at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and ranking in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Hannah added: «Educationists tend to see having English as an additional language as a positive indicator of educational outcomes because a lot of those immigrant communities take education incredibly seriously.

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«As a Committee dedicated to promoting social justice, we are committed to examining these issues in our inquiry and pressing government, local authorities, schools and others to do all they can to improve educational outcomes and life chances.

Teachers can relate to school dynamics, such as student wellbeing, teacher needs and educational outcomes to deliver a realistic (and hopefully balanced) timetable.

They found that «an increase in the share of independent - school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long - run educational outcomes.»

Longitudinal research has demonstrated that students who perceive school discipline as unfair are more likely to disobey teachers, disrupt classroom instruction, and in general fail to develop behaviors conducive to educational success and related positive outcomes.

Economic, cultural, and demographic factors are all known to affect those outcomes, as are a panoply of educational policies besides school choice, such as curriculum, testing, staffing, discipline, etc..

Even as systemic inequalities in social outcomes such as educational attainment and family income remained stable, sophisticated consumer technologies caught on and crossed socioeconomic boundaries.