Sentences with phrase «influenced educational quality»

The court also claimed that it was not qualified to address difficult empirical questions such as whether money influenced educational quality.

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These include the promotion of breastfeeding to enhance the quality of relationships between parents and their babies, recognising how attachment behaviours in these early years influence a child's future educational attainment, social skills, self - efficacy and self - worth.

At Uppsala University there are guidelines for students» working conditions which outline the requirements on such matters as physical and psychosocial work environment, student influence and quality enhancement, course planning and timetabling, tuition and educational material, examination, and independent projects.

High - quality summer learning programs can spark student curiosity and passion, augment academic achievement, nurture intellectual peer support, and influence educational and career trajectories.

Researchers used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.

My team is looking to bring NFER's 70 year track record in high quality educational assessment, analysis, evaluation and reviews — and successful policy and practice influence — to bear in meeting global education opportunities and challenges.

«A chain of positive influences initiated by large advantages in school readiness and parent involvement leads to better school performance and enrollment in higher quality schools, and ultimately to higher educational attainment and socioeconomic status.»

While no assessment system is without limitations, Tennessee's value - added assessment model stands head and shoulders above others with regard to its focus on the effectiveness of schools, its ability to remove the biasing effects of social and economic influences, and its usefulness in answering critical questions about student progress and educational quality.

While many factors — including student demographics, parental involvement, teacher quality, and government policy — influence educational outcomes, research generally finds that students perform better when taught by more experienced teachers and that increased teacher turnover can harm student performance.8 High levels of turnover can also disrupt schools.

Combining these areas of interest, she has worked on a variety of research projects exploring the bidirectional influences between child behavior problems, classroom quality, and teacher stress in preschool classrooms; the effects of educational instability in children's cognitive and self - regulation skills; and the relation between poverty - related risk and school readiness.

But it could, and did, punch well above its weight in terms of educational quality and influence.

In addition to these influences, the challenges that came with the ongoing precariousness of academic life — a lack of tools, materials and a quality educational program — led the young creators to meet and exchange their reflections on the artistic production they observed around them, as well as the situations and challenges that emerged from an educational program that took up techniques but that neither made the media needed to master them available nor contemplated the option of the gesture as a solution.

«Psychometrische kwaliteiten van meetinstrumenten van het onderwijsaanbod» [«Psychometric qualities of instruments for measuring educational content»], Tijdschrift voor Onderwijsresearch, 17, 355 — 369, cited in Timmermans, R. E. and van Lieshout, E. C. D. M. (2003)» Influence of instruction in mathematics for low performing students on strategy use», European Journal of Special Needs Education, 18: 1,5 — 16)-RRB-.

High quality child care can have a positive influence on children's development and school readiness by providing valuable educational and social experiences.

With the increased recognition that parenting is influenced by a range of factors that might compromise its functioning, several programs have extended their focus by offering support for parents» self - care (e.g., depression, birth - control planning), marital quality, and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g., improving educational, occupational, and housing resources).