Sentences with phrase «individual background characteristics»

Results of multilevel analyses reveal that individual background characteristics (e.g., gender, social class, individual assessment of teacher - student relationships) explain more of the variance than school characteristics, including school climate.

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The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

A proof - of - concept study finds that it is possible to identify an individual's ancestral background based on his or her fingerprint characteristics — a discovery with significant applications for law enforcement and anthropological research.

Factors from student backgrounds, including their parents, communities, and individual characteristics, have a strong influence on achievement.

The database contains individual - level information on test scores and background characteristics for all students in grades 3 through 8 in the state's public schools, charter and traditional.

This allowed me to control for the influence of each individual student's background, assess the influence of the actual resource level and teacher characteristics each student faces, and look at the institutional features that are relevant to individual students.

So, in our research, we're looking at a whole range of individual characteristics... such as student demographic background, their academic performance and educational aspirations, the number of hours they work after school and their peers» aspirations.

The volume examines the relationship between student performance and socio - economic status, and describes how other individual student characteristics, such as immigrant background and family structure, and school characteristics, such as school location, are associated with socio - economic status and performance.

Most of the available data on students» background characteristics were collected only once or changed little over time for individual students.

You maximise learning opportunities for your students by understanding their backgrounds and diverse individual characteristics and the impact of those factors on their learning.

Many wondered whether these possible effects of child care could be attributed to other variables: the individual characteristics of the children, the child care providers, the other members of the children's peer group, or the family backgrounds themselves.

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

Individuals differ not only in their background characteristics, but also in how they respond to a particular treatment, intervention, or stimulation.

However, researchers generally agree that up to two - thirds of the variation in student achievement is explainable by individual student characteristics like family background and such variables.

How successfully can they isolate the contributions of individual teachers from student background characteristics like poverty or English language proficiency?

[1] These models have the ability to measure individual students» learning gains, controlling for students» previous knowledge and background characteristics.

In addition, it highlights the relative strengths and weaknesses of each school system and examines how they are related to individual student characteristics, such as gender, immigrant background and socio - economic status.

This has been confirmed by numerous studies, most particularly those that focus on value added for individual students after controlling for background characteristics like socioeconomic status.

If this «catchy label» or Smith's comment was applied to someone who could reasonably be construed to be an actual supporter of the Taliban, whether due to presumed national background, shared faith, or other discernible characteristics (even if erroneously made), these exact same opinion statements should objectively find themselves on the other side of the borderline of a comment that would diminish the esteem of an individual, especially if made outside of the context of an ongoing debate.

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.

Some people are not at greater risk, and any individual's risk level is related to a mix of variables that includes personal characteristics, background, socio - economic disadvantage, and, as I argue below, behaviors that increase risk.

Third, they asked detailed accounts about family background and education at the time of marriage, allowing us to assess inherent differences in the characteristics of individuals who selected in the unions with varying degrees of age similarities between spouses.