Sentences with phrase «like socioeconomic 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.

Researchers look for correlations between parenting and child outcomes, and then try to control for other factors (like socioeconomic status) using statistical analysis.

There isn't much of it, and many of the conclusions drawn could be influenced by other factors like socioeconomic status and parental involvement, to name a few.

A study discussed in the Washington Post (and many other news outlets) found an inverse correlation between children's fast food consumption and their test scores, even when factors like socioeconomic status were ruled out.

They controlled for other variables like socioeconomic status and the weight of the children who ate school lunches had significantly increased.

Not exact matches

In a church whose membership ranked lower than the older Protestant denominations in education and socioeconomic status, a bishop could well speak like that.

Whose socioeconomic status is like ours?

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and I am thankful for those who treat people like human beings regardless of their race or socioeconomic status.

Also, I too am a teacher and believe very strongly that this issue is one that is directly linked to socioeconomic status; my school district is a particularly wealthy one, and the school - provided lunches look absolutely NOTHING like Mrs Q's lunches.

For instance, if a computer program studies crime statistics and discovers that certain features — like a person's age or socioeconomic status — are highly related to repeated criminal activity, that could inspire new studies to see whether certain interventions, like therapy, help those at - risk groups.

After accounting for factors like age, race, medications and socioeconomic status, which could skew the results, they looked for patterns that suggested links between mental illness and infection rates.

To rule out other factors that could lead to poor health outcomes, including race and socioeconomic status, the team removed babies born in urban areas like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, which have comparatively high rates of lower birth weight babies.

Also socioeconomic information like taxable income, ownership of a car, education, and marital status.»

The study revealed, however, that the majority of children, regardless of socioeconomic status, do not consume enough low - fat milk or whole grains on school days, opting instead for packaged snack foods like potato chips or fast - food style items, like French fries, high in sodium and saturated fat.

Looking at life - course epidemiological studies, the secret lies in two questions: Are you comfortable in your socioeconomic status, and do you like your job?

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found an association between lower socioeconomic status during childhood and adolescence and the length of telomeres, protective cap - like protein complexes at the end of chromosomes that ultimately affect the susceptibility to colds in middle - aged adults.

«The fact the cohorts used to determine this study's conclusions (BMJ published meta analysis) failed to consider incredibly relevant diabetes confounders like family history of diabetes, socioeconomic status, and dietary consumption patterns, including the dietary consumption of other categories of refined grains, makes quantifying the effect on diabetes development due to white rice consumption from this data set impossible.

Some, like family history, age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, are non-modifiable risk factors.

(See on interracial dating sites) Conversely, in Brazil, race is based on various factors, like the physical appearance influenced by environment and genetics, socioeconomic status, and the race of the parents, and is therefore more flexible.

And like Lady Bird, within this modest story, weightier topics surfaced — just as Lady Bird proves to be a sly commentary on socioeconomic status and how that affects personhood, Silver Linings Playbook has a lot to say about mental illness with its plucky protagonists (stuff that psychiatrists agree with, for what it's worth).

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

«The program allowed me to sit with like - minded people who are committed to improving the quality of education available to all students, without regard for race, socioeconomic status or ability.

The John Henryism Hypothesis put forth by Sherman James argues that having «a strong behavioral predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial environmental stressors» interacts with disadvantaged circumstances (like low socioeconomic status, discrimination, and structural inequality) to negatively impact health.

This effect held true across all disability categories, even when controlling for factors like race and socioeconomic status.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

The Red Cross Home Fires campaign is dedicated to serving the local community by installing smoke alarms in the homes of at - risk groups like single parents and those of low socioeconomic status in order to lower the rate of injury and loss of life from home fires in these groups.

Established by Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., a D - U-N-S number is a unique nine - digit identifier assigned to your business that helps other companies uncover vital information like your financial reliability, industry classifications, socioeconomic status and much more.

That's because most employees will likely refer people who are like them because of people's natural tendency to self - segregate and interact more often with people who are from a similar race, gender, and socioeconomic status as themselves.

«I like working with folks from all different backgrounds, cultures, and socioeconomic status.

It is also possible that the relatively small effect of maternal feeding behaviors is overwhelmed by cofounders such as television viewing or consumption of calorically dense foods (eg, sweets or French fries), which are, like maternal feeding behaviors, associated with both markers of socioeconomic status (58, 59) and adiposity (58, 60) and an increase in frequency between ages 15 and 36 mo (61, 62).

However, similarity and attraction are not limited to personality characteristics.2 Matching on other factors like age, education, socioeconomic status, physical attractiveness, attitudes, and even name - letter initials has been linked to increased attraction and relationship satisfaction.3, 4,5,6 Despite the overabundance of scientifically - validated literature on the topic, I think no one has described the phenomenon better than Jerry Seinfeld when he said,

Studies that control for socioeconomic status have found that parenting mediates stress - linked health consequences, like shortened telomeres (which I refer to in my post as damage to DNA).

Early childhood studies on deaf children like these suggest that the predictors of language development are independent of gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, communication modality, degree of hearing loss, age at identification, and parents» level of education (see Meadow - Orlans et al., 2003, for a review).