Sentences with phrase «family background we control»

As Jencks and Mayer state, «As a rule, the more aspects of family background we control, the smaller neighborhood and school effects look.»

Not exact matches

In order to figure out why, the researchers ruled out a number of possibilities by controlling for variables such as family background and health.

After controlling for age, gender, race, education, family background, and religiosity, living in a co-ed dorm was associated with more sexual partners.

IT is too hard for people, especially family members, to see or comprehend mental illness as it is spiralling our to control unless you get help from someone who does know... The deal is a normal person, any age, any education or background can become» unglued» for no apparent outward reason... except they seem to be acting off or weird or troubled, confused, saying or doing strange stuff... and a lot of times these people are getting drugs coming into our nation from Mexico and points south by illegal aliens who purport to be «just looking for a job»...

(Adds company background, Blackstone comment) By Olivia Oran and Greg Roumeliotis Dec 14 (Reuters)- SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, the family entertainment company controlled by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, is close to filing for an initial public offering, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a beating from fellow Democrats and left - leaning entities like the Working Families Party for agreeing to suspend the creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks — a provision of the controversial gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

After controlling for background variables such as family status and income, the researchers determined that each hour of lost sleep was associated with a 38 percent increase in the odds of feeling sad and hopeless, a 42 percent increase in considering suicide, a 58 percent increase in suicide attempts and a 23 percent increase in substance abuse.

The same mutation was present in all members of the family who had Tourette but was absent in thousands of DNA samples from control subjects, who included unrelated people with similar ethnic backgrounds as well as a group of 720 Tourette patients, the researchers report today in The New England Journal of Medicine.

As the musical performances in «Control» make clear, Joy Division was a groundbreaking and influential band - and too big of a force to be relegated to the background in favor of more family drama.

In general, VAMs factor in the gains the student was expected to make based on past performance, and in some cases, control for elements such as peer characteristics and background, including poverty level and family education.

For instance, the family background variables we used to control for such differences may have failed to capture more nuanced variations in parental interest in education.

They discuss the Coleman Report's finding that family background explained more about student achievement than factors within the control of the school or other things that education policy can influence.

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).

James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer did control for family background and found that students in private schools, both Catholic and non-Catholic, scored higher on the High School and Beyond civics test than did public school students, although the results were not statistically significant.

Before we can test hypotheses, we must control for the effects of family background and the level of resources devoted to education.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.

In calculating the results, I controlled for a host of background characteristics, including the mother's educational level, her race, the student's family income, whether a student lived in a two - parent household, and the student's sex.

RAND attempted to control for the family background of the students taking the test, but the only information on family background available to RAND was census figures on the average statewide education and income of school - age families in 1990.

So, when The Times tries to control on family background with a third - grade test score, it does so inadequately — again overestimating the discrete effect of the teacher.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

- family background In order to control for family background this project uses a socio - economic status construct.

«[EVAAS] depends a lot on home support, background knowledge, current family situation, lack of sleep, whether parents are at home, in jail, etc. [There are t] oo many outside factors — behavior issues, etc.» that apparently are not controlled or accounted for in the model.

Teachers can control how they learn in classroom but are unable to control their family backgrounds, motivation and learning interest.

While the iPad does offer some helpful parental controls, it does not create a separate family - friendly environment complete with cartoonish backgrounds.

The controls aren't as precise as you might like — you essentially use a slide to adjust the focus on the shot's background — but you could potentially add a bit of photographic flair to pictures of friends and family using this feature, too.

Treating childhood obesity: family background variables and the child's success in a weight - control intervention

Multiple randomised controlled trials undertaken Maintenance of improvements Generalisation of outcomes for children with disabilities; children at risk of maltreatment; families of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background.

Moreover, research shows that even after one controls for a range of family background differences, children who grow up living in an intact household with both biological parents present seem to do better, on average, on a wide range of social indicators than do children who grow up in a single - parent household (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).

Finally, although a large number of family background variables were controlled for in our analysis there may be many more that can impact on children's outcomes.

Research on the correlates of depression in children has frequently failed to control for this co-occurrence, and little is known about the family background and characteristics of children displaying both problem behaviors.

The objectives of this study were to (1) describe the psychological functioning, physical and mental health, family communication, and parenting support of mothers of a child with autism compared with other mothers on a population basis and (2) assess the independent relationship between having a child with autism and these outcomes, controlling for the child's social skills and demographic background.

The associations between marriage and age of marriage to relationship quality, social and emotional well - being, and future income generally hold up, even after we control for social and economic factors such as race, ethnicity, education, and family background.

Students living in two - parent families obtain higher achievement levels than other students, even after controlling the student's socioeconomic level and academic background (Cervini, Dari, & Quiroz, 2014).

Control families with similar socioeconomic background have been recruited by our research team and have agreed to be followed up for at least 5 years.

While an authoritative parenting style (balanced levels of control and permissiveness) is normative and associated with positive child outcomes in white middle - class families, this positive association does not prevail in all cultural and socio - economic backgrounds.

Fact:» [W] e discovered that many of the seeming effects of childhood divorce disappear when we control for pre-divorce circumstances including background characteristics of the family and measures of how the child was doing at age 7 before parents separated.»

In 1968, when we only control for age and gender in model 1, we find no statistically significant difference in low educational attainment between respondents who grew up with both their parents and respondents from a dissolved family background.

This year's fresh faces come from different parts of the country, have different backgrounds, and focus on different niches, but they share a desire to control their destiny and measure success on their own terms, whether that's by maximizing their sales potential or enjoying the freedom to pursue other interests, including time with family and friends.