Sentences with phrase «measure family characteristics»

This allows them to measure family characteristics (such as parental income) not typically controlled for when teacher value - added is estimated.

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The new Q dummy family is able to reflect these types of injuries, due to their biofidelity characteristics and performance and they can also measure the impact in terms of these sections of the body.

We also conducted a more sophisticated analysis that measures the relationship between a family's demographic characteristics (such as eligibility for free - or reduced - price lunch, median household income of the student's residential neighborhood, race, and student prior achievement level), a school's poverty level, and the likelihood that the parent makes a request.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

Coleman found that family and peer characteristics explained a statistically and consequentially significant amount of variation in the measure of achievement.

Completion of more - advanced math courses increased the predicted probability of college graduation even when the authors controlled for demographic traits, socioeconomic status, family and school characteristics, and overall measures of math ability (i.e., math GPA and grade 10 math test score).

In addition to measuring baseline characteristics of families in the treatment and control groups and conducting follow - up assessments at one, two, and three years, evaluators collected data on the implementation of the program.

There were significant associations (p < 0.05) between sports club participation and: all demographic characteristics; all measures of family and peer support; and access to sport - related facilities.

Independent variables included measures of family context, school context, and individual characteristics.

Research related to optimal youth development has begun to delineate critical dimensions of important social contexts.8 — 11 For example, some researchers propose 3 basic experiences (ie, connection, regulation, and autonomy) to define youth's main associations with their environment that can be measured across multiple settings.8, 12,13 Others have articulated similar concepts and expanded the number of dimensions to include characteristics, such as adequate nutrition, health, and shelter; physical and psychological safety; adequate and appropriate supervision and motivation; supportive relationships; support for efficacy and opportunities for skill building; and integration of family, school, and community efforts.10, 11

In 2014, Georgia identified four E3Zs based off measures such as education, poverty, student standardized test scores, and family characteristics.

In multivariate analysis that took account of other family and maternal characteristics, the MCS study found that two measures of family organisation (regular bed and mealtimes) were the only parenting behaviours predicting poor general health.

Table 5.3 presents the association between job loss and family background characteristics measured in 2005/06 (when the child was aged 0 - 1, see section 2.1.3 for full list of characteristics considered).

The protocols used to measure individual and family characteristics for participants in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) consisted of several types of assessment instruments, including self - report questionnaires, structured interview formats and educational tests.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study evaluated therapist characteristics, therapist process, and family process in a short - term systems - behavioral model of family intervention [now called Functional Family Therapy (FFT)family process in a short - term systems - behavioral model of family intervention [now called Functional Family Therapy (FFT)family intervention [now called Functional Family Therapy (FFT)Family Therapy (FFT)-RSB-.

All of the measures of family characteristics listed in Section 2.1.3 were initially entered into the models as control variables (see Tables D. 1 to D. 5 in the technical appendix for full results).

Rather, it recognizes for them rights that they should have enjoyed all along as part of the human family, contextualizes those rights in light of their particular characteristics and circumstances, and promotes measures to remedy the rights» historical and systemic violation...

Fact:» [W] e discovered that many of the seeming effects of childhood divorce disappear when we control for pre-divorce circumstances including background characteristics of the family and measures of how the child was doing at age 7 before parents separated.»

Parents identified as compound caregivers were then compared to those who were not in terms of family characteristics, as well as parental perceptions of burden and mastery, and family distress as measured by the Revised Caregiver Appraisal Scale and the Brief Family Distress Scale, respectfamily characteristics, as well as parental perceptions of burden and mastery, and family distress as measured by the Revised Caregiver Appraisal Scale and the Brief Family Distress Scale, respectfamily distress as measured by the Revised Caregiver Appraisal Scale and the Brief Family Distress Scale, respectFamily Distress Scale, respectively.

Some areas of family functioning are better suited to research using self - report measures, for example parental beliefs, while research into behavioural characteristics may better rely more on observational measures.

The subscale measures the extent to which the open expression of anger and aggression and conflictual interactions are characteristic of the family.

However, other HIV - related health factors, traditional background characteristics, and psychosocial measures (e.g., HIV stigma, parenting stress, family environment) failed to indicate who was most vulnerable.

Research also needs to adequately control for covariates that may confound the effects of PAE, such as family processes (eg, problematic parenting or family conflict) and parental characteristics, especially maternal substance use.1, 12 Researchers also need to account for genetic liabilities that are shared by parents and offspring.13, 14 A woman's genetic risk of substance use could be passed down to her children and subsequently affect their behavior.15 Research on the consequences of PAE, therefore, needs studies with large samples, with sufficient statistical power to detect small effects, using analytical methods and designs that can account for potential confounds, including factors that are not measured.

As previously noted, the need for separate and distinct tools to differentiate core ASD symptoms from measures of maladaptive and adaptive behaviour may provide clarity to the current overlap between child characteristics and their influence on family outcomes.