Sentences with phrase «for background variables»

To avoid these risks, value - added models must fully control for background variables that could be persistently associated with any teacher.

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.

Perinatal outcome index in planned home births and planned hospital births controlled for background variables in low risk pregnancies

In multiparous women, perinatal outcome was significantly better for planned home births than for planned hospital births, with or without control for background variables.

Research shows that after controlling for background variables between AP and non-AP students, taking AP courses has very little impact on time to degree (Klopfenstein, 2010).

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.

This may be different in other countries, but it is not unexpected in the Netherlands, where home birth has been an approved option for a long time.1 5 12 After background variables were controlled for, the perinatal outcome for primiparous women with low risk pregnancies was similar for those who planned home births and those who planned hospital births.

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

Raymond and her team removed the family background variables from the Quality Counts Chance - for - Success Index to create a new index that includes only school - related factors.

There are a number of reasons: 1) student achievement probably wasn't used as the measure of teacher effectiveness; 2) before the advent of the modern computer, in the mid-1960s, some of the more sophisticated analyses were not feasible; 3) the structure and makeup of schools change, making the findings less applicable to the current situation; 4) most important, older studies may not control for critical variables, such as students» backgrounds or past achievement.

Longitudinal studies and controlled studies — for example, experimental or quasi-experimental studies that seek to eliminate the effect of extraneous variables such as student background — could establish causation.

Because the evidence on confounding by student background variables is mixed, those who make decisions about teachers should allow for its potential to occur.

One study, for example, found that under value - added models that had very limited controls for student background variables, the two percent of teachers who had half or more students with disabilities received value - added scores that, on average, were low; they ranked in the 20th to 25th percentile in math and the 25th to 33rd percentile in reading.

Chetty might even agree with this assertion, although he would disagree with the EVAAS's (typical) lack of use of controls for student background variables / demographics — a point of contention that has been debated, now, for years, with research evidence supporting both approaches; hence, the intense debates about VAM — based bias, now also going on for years.

After controlling for student background, the only objective factor found to be positively correlated with student performance was smaller classes, not school size or teacher qualifications, nor any other variable that the researchers could identify.

There are many variables in this undertaking — beginning with your lifestyle and ending with a pure economic background, like the sufficiency of funds for keeping the kitten.

«Dimensions Variable» also features the artist's hand - constructed frames, suggesting a threshold for the subjects of the paintings to come forward, into «real life», as they visually oscillate between the foreground and background of the illusionistic painting.

With the knowledge of today, we know that data from Giessen, Poona, Vienna,... are unreliable indicators for background CO2 levels and all show a (variable!)

These effects remained significant when controlling for personal background variables; importantly, the influence of question wording was not moderated by any of them (Fs < 1.13, ns, for all interactions).

The noise criteria for wind farms applied in Australia establish fixed noise limits for low background noise environments and variable noise limits when background noise levels are higher.

My conclusion: • There is no support for a variable TSI «Background» • The current Climate Data Record [CDR] is not helpful to Climate Research • The CDR should not be based on obsolete solar activity data • I expect strong «push - back» from entrenched «settled science», but urge [at least] the solar community to be honest about the issue

247 pieces of information for each case, roughly broken down into six categories: (1) identification variables (e.g., citations and docket numbers); (2) background variables (e.g., how the Court took jurisdiction, origin and source of the case, the reason the Court agreed to decide it); (3) chronological variables (e.g., the date of decision, term of Court, natural court); (4) substantive variables (e.g., legal provisions, issues, direction of decision); (5) outcome variables

Married and not - married Hmong female high school students were compared on attitudinal, achievement, and background variables to explore factors associated with early marriage and to determine consequences of early marriage for mental health and educational expectations.

Moreover, this relation was evident while controlling for many other important background variables.

Multiple logistic regression analyses (Table 3) yielded the following results after controlling for age, sex, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic background variables.

Therefore, the present study examines the long - term role of reckless driving - related movie exposure, while controlling for important background variables and also testing for mediation processes.

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.

Mean levels of psychological well - being by parental status, controlling for sociodemographic background variables.

Background characteristics at study entry and descriptive statistics for key variables, by maternal controlling feeding profiles (n = 180) 1

Second, although we investigated sex and the presence of siblings, there may be other significant background variables that differentiate among the trajectory groups, especially as potential risk factors for the chronically low social skill group, for example, parental income and education.