Sentences with phrase «family background characteristics»

Students in private schools do no better than students in public schools, once differences in family background characteristics are taken into account.

As research has demonstrated, school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about one - third of what student and family background characteristics explain.

These differences may be partially explained by family background characteristics such as parental education and income.

Put simply, white and black children with similar personal and family background characteristics achieved similar test scores (see Figure 1).

They can account for only observed family background characteristics, such as the mother's educational level, a student's ethnicity, or family income.

Black children and white children with similar family background characteristics start school at similar levels of achievement.

The second study features additional analysis with a breakdown of the results by family background characteristics.

Put simply, white and black children with similar personal and family background characteristics achieved similar test scores.

As research has found, school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about a third of what student and family background characteristics explain.

For instance, University of Wisconsin economist Derek Neal's analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that, even after adjusting for family background characteristics, students from Catholic schools were 16 percentage points more likely to go to college than were public - school students.

It was the education of the parents and other family background characteristics that counted most (see essay by Anna Egalite).

This argument, interestingly enough, is the precise opposite of one of the primary arguments against the testing and accountability provisions of NCLB: We should not hold schools responsible for low achievement, because achievement is affected by student motivation and family background characteristics beyond the school's control.

Removing family background characteristics from the index changes states» rankings substantially.

Working with data from the State of Florida, I have regularly noticed that achievement gains by students who move from one public school to another badly trail the gains of students who remain in the same school — even after one has adjusted for many family background characteristics.

Student and family background characteristics used in the analysis include a student's gender, immigration status, exposure to early childhood education, the number of books in the home, and parental occupation and work status.

We also carried out the difference - in - differences analysis in these demographic measures to understand the changes in New Orleans relative to the matched comparison group of hurricane - affected districts, and then simulated the effect of changes in family background characteristics on test scores using data from the federal Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.

Personal and relationship contexts: include family background characteristics such as previous marriages, existing children, the quality of an individual's parents» marriage, family relationship quality, age at marriage, and parents» and friends» approval of the relationship.

Most studies put the school - based contribution to what is commonly called the «achievement gap» closer to 20 %, with about 60 % attributable to «student and family background characteristics [which] likely pertain to income / poverty» and the other 20 % unexplained.

Table 5.3 presents the association between job loss and family background characteristics measured in 2005/06 (when the child was aged 0 - 1, see section 2.1.3 for full list of characteristics considered).

People have suggested these patterns might be due to: neighborhood / local area / region of family background; other family background characteristics; high school test scores or high school quality; quality of college attended; choices of majors and occupations; choice of neighborhood or area to live in after college.

As statistical theory anticipates, the average difference in the combined reading and math test scores of African - Americans in all three cities remained exactly the same - 6.3 NPR points - after the adjustments for family background characteristics were introduced.

These indicate how well a teacher's students did relative to other teachers» students, controlling for prior student achievement and for student and family background characteristics (for example, age, race and ethnicity, disability, free or reduced - price lunch status, and parental education level).

Before conducting the lotteries, our evaluation team collected data on student test scores and family background characteristics.

Nonetheless, after the release of our study, some analysts objected to the apparent absence of controls for family background characteristics.

We found that the vast majority (about 60 percent) of the differences in student test scores are explained by individual and family background characteristics.

«But in the big picture, roughly 60 percent of achievement outcomes is explained by student and family background characteristics (most are unobserved, but likely pertain to income / poverty).