Initially each variable of interest was included in a separate model controlling for age, sex, ACCHS, carer's employment status (as
a measure of socioeconomic status) and clustering by family ID.
This is clear in a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more
a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).
The most important of these characteristics is a composite
measure of socioeconomic status developed by the survey's researchers.
Two studies previously indicating negative selection drop from the review because they don't explicitly examine
a measure of socioeconomic status.
The study also found that parents» education — one common
measure of socioeconomic status — is related to children's performance on tasks of working memory, and that neighborhood characteristics — another common
measure of socioeconomic status — are not.
Five
measures of socioeconomic status were assessed: age completing full time education, degree level education, job class, annual household income, and Townsend deprivation index (a recognised social deprivation score).
To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different
measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.
Measures of socioeconomic status included poverty - income ratio, a ratio of self - reported income relative to the poverty line, and attained education level.
Simply put, just because a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the average outcome differences between the poor and non-poor it does not mean that a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the difference in outcome between the very poor and the very wealthy or differences across other
measures of socioeconomic status.
Although
the measures of socioeconomic status in NAPLAN are different from those collected for PISA, the overall results are highly consistent with Jo's quote from the OECD report.
In June 2015, this working group published a report, «Forum Guide to Alternative
Measures of Socioeconomic Status in Education Data Systems,» available at: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015158.pdf.
However, a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced
measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).
Predictors included one - time
measures of socioeconomic status, parental antisocial behavior, and time - varying measures of parental transitions, parental monitoring, deviant peer association, and the boys» antisocial / delinquent behavior, substance use, physical maturation, academic achievement, and anxiety.
Socioeconomic status was measured with a 6 - point scale that places each occupation into1 of 6 categories based on the educational level and income associated with that occupation in the data from the New Zealand census.36
Measures of socioeconomic status were averaged from birth to age 9 years (α =.79).
Not exact matches
The study, published online recently in the American Journal
of Human Biology, is the first to
measure cortisol in infants and relate it directly to the
socioeconomic status of their mothers during pregnancy.
The risk
of developing 22
of the most common cancers, which represent 90 %
of the cancers diagnosed in the UK, was
measured according to BMI after adjusting for individual factors such as age, sex, smoking
status, and
socioeconomic status.
The researchers also
measured socioeconomic status looking at median household income, the percentage
of individuals living below the poverty level, and whether or not they had a high school education.
«The findings should be interpreted with caution given that childhood
socioeconomic status is notoriously difficult to
measure for a number
of reasons, including recall bias, but other studies have shown that childhood
socioeconomic status can have a critical impact on adult health independent
of adult
socioeconomic status.
«However, we also think that traditional
measures of childhood
socioeconomic status may not accurately reflect the childhood social environments
of African Americans, which is quite different from that
of U.S. whites because
of the history
of racial discrimination and segregation.
Kraus's team tested the auditory abilities
of teenagers aged 14 or 15, grouped by
socioeconomic status (as indexed by their mother's level
of education, a commonly used surrogate
measure).
Inequality in access goes far beyond
socioeconomic status, and reliable
measures would incorporate a more granular understanding
of what limits educational opportunities.
If the
socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics
of the classrooms taught by National Board teachers differ from those
of noncertified teachers,
measures of teacher quality that rely on student performance may be biased.
He concedes, however, that his own research shows that race, gender, and
socioeconomic status have little effect on value - added
measures of teacher effectiveness.
Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse
measure of family
socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.
A study from the Consortium
of Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
of Philadelphia schools after the reform found that schools using positive rather than punitive disciplinary
measures had more faculty cohesion, better teacher morale, and served higher
socioeconomic status students than schools not complying with the reform.
Not surprisingly, parent
socioeconomic status is strongly predictive
of student test scores, and, looking at simple correlations, we find that less - advantaged students do tend to be assigned to teachers with lower VA
measures.
The components
of the
socioeconomic status measure are parents» level
of education, parents» occupational
status, and household income.
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).
Analysis
of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive
measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level,
socioeconomic status, and so on).
A picture
of achievement:
Socioeconomic status, dialect use, and standard
measures of language sampling.
Accountability should be enforced where the necessary resources are provided and the tools used to
measure success or failure are well developed, appropriate to the task, and used to inform instructional decisions.School Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis
of race, gender,
socioeconomic status, or disability.
There's a strong correlation between lower
socioeconomic status and lower test scores, so critics say the rankings are more a
measure of poverty than anything else, and that test scores alone fail to tell the whole story
of what's happening in a given school building.
Despite these successes, Reville could not shake an uncomfortable truth: the overall achievements
of Massachusetts students masked large gaps on every
measure of performance that correlated strongly with
socioeconomic status, race / ethnicity, disability, and English language learner
status.
The authors also reported a reduction in teenage parenthood and increases in neighborhood
socioeconomic status (as
measured by the fraction
of neighbors with a college education) and savings (as indicated by having a 401k retirement account).
[16] The reason is that although value - added models may include
measures of peer composition such as average prior ability or average family
socioeconomic status, the value - added
of the teacher or school is unobserved.
Socioeconomic status was
measured using the Hollingshead Two Factor Index
of Social Position.
Similar research needs to be conducted with more various families (other race, with a lower level
of education and / or lower
socioeconomic status, etc.) to assess whether the QPCCE is a widely applicable
measure.
We also could not control for or analyze
socioeconomic factors in the present analyses due to the absence
of measures of familial
socioeconomic status; however, the National American Indian Adolescent Health Survey is the largest and most comprehensive database available on rural, reservation - based American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and there is little reason to believe that a representative sample
of school - based, rural American Indian adolescents would yield findings substantially different from those presented here.18
Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all
of these risk factors into his process model
of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness
of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect
of both
socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as
measured by ratings
of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years
of life, not by review
of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form
of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates
of child maltreatment among families served.
Association
of socioeconomic status measured by education, and cardiovascular health: a population - based cross-sectional study
The groups did not differ on residential stability as
measured by mean number
of years living in Seattle by age 12 years and by the mean number
of residences in which participants lived from age 5 to 14 years;
socioeconomic status, as
measured by years
of parental education or proportion eligible for the school lunch program; proportion from single - parent families; proportion
of boys; or proportion
of whites or nonwhites.
The five comparison communities were selected to be similar to CfC sites in location (the same states and territories as the CfC sites) and in
socioeconomic status of the local area (as
measured by the
socioeconomic index for areas, CfC site mean 941.58, 95 % CI 916.34 to 966.82, comparison site mean 970.11, 95 % CI 920.15 to 1020.06; p = 0.29).
The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low -
socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample
of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer
measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels
of objectively
measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk
of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.
Although the current dataset collected little demographic data on individual cases, information from the practices showed a very high percentage
of suburban practices in the current sample, suggesting the possibility that the overall
socioeconomic status of these subjects might be much higher than it was in the original PSC - 17 sample.1 As noted in previous studies with the PSC43 and other
measures, 9,13,44,45 the rate
of positive screening, especially for externalizing problems, is usually higher in lower —
socioeconomic status populations.
The study was designed to
measure personality traits
of extraversion and neuroticism among the twin pairs, traits
of impulsivity and monotony avoidance, and family environment and
socioeconomic status.
Limitations include possible expectancy bias on the self - report
measures, lack
of assessment immediately post-intervention, small sample size and generalizable to lower
socioeconomic status or more culturally diverse populations.
Race / Ethnicity Caucasian Hispanic African American Asian American Native American Other races not listed N / A
Socioeconomic status < $ 10,000 $ 10,000 - $ 20,000 $ 20,000 - $ 30,000 $ 30,000 - $ 40,000 $ 40,000 - $ 50,000 $ 50,000 - $ 60,000 $ 60,000 - $ 70,000 > $ 70,000 Education level High school diploma Vocational training Some college Bachelor's degree Graduate / professional training Doctoral degree Marital
status Measures The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study Questionnaire (ACEs Questionnaire; Felitti et al., 1998) assessed mothers» exposure to seven dimensions
of ACEs, including psychological, physical, and sexual abuse and exposure to parental substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, and criminal behavior.
The most apparent is that single
measures of absolute concentrations
of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation
measures, in terms
of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number
of factors, such as
Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms
of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.
Socioeconomic status measured by a revised version
of the Hollingshead Index
of Social Position (LaGasse et.al., 1999).
In Switzerland, where we conducted the study, most fathers in middle to high
socioeconomic status families work full time — or close to full time — whereas the mothers at 3 months postpartum are mostly still on maternity leave, which may explain why a father's depressive state is less closely related to family functioning than is that
of the mother in the first months, especially in cases
of a mild or moderate depressive state, as we were able to
measure in the present low - risk sample.