Sentences with phrase «from school characteristics»

The methodological approach separates the effects of teacher characteristics from school characteristics by modeling the relationship between the assessments of school contextual factors by one set of teachers and the turnover decisions by other teachers within the same school.

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Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

The poll also identified characteristics among evangelicals which correspond to other characteristics already noted as significant in distinguishing the religious television audience from the non-audience: the typical U.S. evangelical was characterized as a white female Southerner, aged 50 or over, with a high - school education and a modest income.

The Chef Instructor Training Program begins with two - weeks of intensive exposure to the world of school food, including an overview of the National School Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodschool food, including an overview of the National School Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodSchool Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodschool food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodology.

In order to separate student characteristics from aspects of segregated public schools, Kainz used a statistical technique called «propensity score matching,» which allows for comparison of reading growth in segregated and non-segregated schools, while also accounting for numerous differences in the students» backgrounds.

«From the first moment she came into our school,» wrote teacher Mike Weddle, «I was amazed at her ability to captivate the students with a succinct explanation of the pika's very complex characteristics and behavior.»

Lead researcher Dr Anna Wilkinson from the School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, said: «The ability to learn through imitation is thought to be the pinnacle of social learning and long considered a distinctive characteristic of humans.

Data from a 1999 NSF report, Characteristics of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates, disputed the S&E shortage by reporting that 68 % of those with S&E baccalaureates and masters were working in non-S & E fields in 1997.2 However, some observers attribute S&E losses to higher enrollments in professional schools.

In the 1960's, over 2,000 children from entire classrooms in elementary schools on two Hawaiian Islands were comprehensively assessed on their personality characteristics.

Poorer children have worse cognitive, social - behavioural and health outcomes because they are poor, and not just because poverty is correlated with other household and parental characteristics, according to a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Lead author, Dr Michael Singer from School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Cardiff University, said: «In drylands, convective (or short, intense) rainfall controls water supply, flood risk and soil moisture but we have had little information on how atmospheric warming will affect the characteristics of such rainstorms, given the limited moisture in these areas.»

Lloyd A. Greene and Arthur S. Tischler of the Harvard Medical School demonstrated in 1977 that cells of the line designated PC12 (which are derived from a rat tumor) respond to NGF by acquiring properties characteristic of sympathetic neurons.

Even with this added dimension, the researchers were unable to identify tangible county characteristics that explain why slave concentration from 1860 is related to contemporary school enrollment patterns.

Physician characteristics included physician age in 5 - year increments (the oldest group was categorized as ≥ 70 years), indicator variables for the medical schools from which the physicians graduated, and type of medical training (ie, allopathic vs osteopathic29 training).

In order to be as representative as possible, the analysis of the characteristics of charter school applicants described below is based on the data from that year.

Maria Puolakkainen, a high school student from Helsinki, Finland, was invited to share her own ideas and insights; read about her experiences in» #StuVoice Finland Shares the «Characteristics of an Effective Teacher».»

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

Our sample consists of 6,072 individuals from whom information was collected on parental income and other characteristics between the ages of 14 and 16 and on completed schooling at age 24.

«It's impossible to select one characteristic that sets a teacher candidate apart from others,» said Gary Cardwell, principal at Crockett Elementary School (Wichita Falls, Texas).

The report first examines students» demographic characteristics using data from the 2010 — 11 school year.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

What if students knew from the start of the school year that all of their work would be in support of two or three essential questions, such as: What are the characteristics of good problem solvers?

The challenge comes in isolating the causal effect of a longer school day or year from the effects of other characteristics of schools and school systems that offer more instructional time.

The analyses presented above highlight the value of tracking individual students from the beginning of their college trajectory for many years beyond when they leave school, and the importance of disaggregating trends by student and institutional characteristics.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

These four characteristics distinguish us from our traditional public school and public charter school peers.

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.

In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of what is likely to improve schools or districts with particular characteristics.

But other, less - heralded attributes helped just as much, including provisions in the state's 1995 legislation that greatly expanded Vallas's power over teachers and schools; school construction and other appealing initiatives undertaken in part to soften the accountability focus; and characteristics in Vallas that aren't necessarily the trademark of the latest fashion, the big - city superintendent who rides in from another walk of life.

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.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

The list of 20 red - flag characteristics — behaviors that could indicate a student's potential for harming himself or herself or others — is derived from tracking school - associated violent deaths in the United States since July 1992.

As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition - free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.»

The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

«Characteristics of Private Schools in the United States: Results From the 2015 - 16 Private School Universe Survey.»

Researchers at California State University, East Bay; the Buck Institute for Education; and the College of Marin analyzed data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools, while controlling for individual characteristics, such as verbal ability.

The Florida Department of Education's Education Data Warehouse provides test scores from the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT) and demographic characteristics for all students in the public schools.

We also included information from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and the Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which include data about the size, demographics, and geographic location of the high school attended when each student took the PSAT / NMSQT, as well as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which includes the characteristics of postsecondary instituSchool Universe Survey (PSS), which include data about the size, demographics, and geographic location of the high school attended when each student took the PSAT / NMSQT, as well as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which includes the characteristics of postsecondary instituschool attended when each student took the PSAT / NMSQT, as well as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which includes the characteristics of postsecondary institutions.

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.

Males defined as high - risk based on baseline characteristics (i.e. prior to high school) realized the largest benefits from the program.

Since 1968, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an office of the Department of Education, has collected data from public schools on student and school characteristics to ensure all students have equal access to a quality education.

We used carefully matched samples of charter and traditional public school students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbschool students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbSchool Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbiased.

We also were able to obtain from PISA student reports of their background characteristics and administrator reports on the characteristics of each student's school, including such things as school resources and whether the school was public or private.

(France had to be dropped from the analysis because it did not supply any information on the characteristics of its participating schools.)

The authors — economists and a political scientist from the U.S. and Germany — have created a framework that controls for the effects of a large set of student, family, school, and country characteristics.

We address these two questions by analyzing school - district data from grades 3 — 8 for 2.5 million children, linked to information on their outcomes as young adults and the characteristics of their parents.

Teachers who work in a given school, and therefore teach students with similar demographic characteristics, can be responsible for increases in math and reading levels that range from a low of one - half year to a high of one and a half years of learning each academic year.

Now, after we get these two measures from the data set, we're looking at the relationship between cognitive engagement and emotional engagement in relation to individual characteristics and the school factors.

Since the three groups of schools are similar in their observable characteristics, such as the student body's ethnic makeup, and most likely in other characteristics as well, the only major difference between the always - D schools and the other two groups is the competition they face from vouchers.

Overall, however, results from the top - down approach suggest that governance arrangements do not correlate with notable differences in school characteristics.