Sentences with phrase «nationally representative»

Both survey nationally representative samples of the U. S. adult population.

NAEP, often called the «nation's report card,» is the only standardized test regularly administered to a nationally representative sample of U.S. students.

* In a nutshell, we asked a nationally representative sample of American adults to identify their local elementary, middle, and high school and to grade them on a standard «A» to «F» scale.

We also posed many new questions in 2015, allowing us to explore opinion on curricular and other issues that have never before been examined in a nationally representative survey of the American public.

The survey was administered to a nationally representative sample of 3,251 American adults in February and March of 2009.

Cambridge, MA — A Harvard University study released today provides the first evidence from a nationally representative sample of Americans that the public, and especially parents, grade their local schools on the basis of student achievement and not on the percentage of students at the school who are African American or Hispanic.

EdNext polls about 5,000 respondents, including a nationally representative sample of teachers, by means of an online survey administered by Knowledge Networks.

The authors employed geo - coding techniques to identify the closest five elementary and middle schools to a nationally representative sample of American adults.

The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

In the just - released 2014 Ednext survey of a nationally representative sample of the general public, no less than 68 % of the public registers support for the following (if the material in brackets is deleted):

The survey interviewed 2,993 Americans, including a nationally representative sample of 1,727 and over-samples of Hispanics, African Americans, parents, and teachers.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

According to the report, 12 percent of a nationally representative sample of students who received bachelor's degrees in 2001 taught school within a year of graduation — up from 10 percent of 1993 graduates.

Conducted by University of Michigan psychologists, Lloyd D. Johnston, Jerald G. Bachman, and Patrick M. O'Malley, it involves a nationally representative sample of 17,700 high - school seniors who attend public and private schools.

The authors, Kathleen Ziol - Guest (New York University), Greg Duncan (University of California, Irvine), and Ariel Kalil (University of Chicago), used the PSID, which tracked the educational and economic life cycle of nationally representative samples of families and their children between 1968 and 2009.

But the only two quantitative studies that analyze data from nationally representative samples of high - school students dismiss it altogether as cultural lore.

But an Education Week nationally representative survey released in December indicated that classroom teachers, principals, and district superintendents are highly skeptical of vouchers, charter schools, and tax - credit scholarships.

The 2017 poll gathered responses from a nationally representative, stratified sample of 4,214 adults aged 18 and older, including representative oversamples of teachers (669), parents with school age children living in their home (2,170), and Hispanics (805).

The survey of a nationally representative sample of adult Americans — and a separate nationally representative sample of teachers — asked respondents whether they thought President Obama's RttT was «necessary to improve school quality» or whether they thought it an «unwarranted intrusion into state and local government.»

On this topic, two sets of scholars weighed in with quantitative studies based on nationally representative surveys.

The researchers studied two large nationally representative samples of high school seniors who were followed for six years after high school graduation.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Both Republicans and Democrats can take comfort in the latest findings about political independents contained in the most recent nationally representative survey released today by the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University (PEPG).

In this regard, I am fortunate that the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Adhealth) provides information on the friendship patterns of a nationally representative sample of more than 90,000 students, from 175 schools in 80 communities, who entered grades 7 through 12 in the 1994 school year.

I investigated the effect of a teacher's gender using the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS), which contains data on a nationally representative sample of nearly 25,000 8th graders from 1988.

and we used their answers in order to develop a survey questionnaire, a survey instrument, that we were then able to conduct across a nationally representative sample of young people in Australia.

Key to my findings is the National Education Longitudinal Survey, initiated in 1988 as a survey of a nationally representative sample of 8th - grade students from 1,052 public and private schools.

The results presented here are based upon a nationally representative, stratified sample of 4,214 adults (age 18 and older), which includes representative oversamples of the following subgroups: parents with school - age children living in their home (2,170), teachers (669), and Hispanics (805).

We analysed data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)-- this is a nationally representative longitudinal study and the data are there for researchers to use.

The data come from telephone surveys of a nationally representative sample of parents.

Published last week in the journal Teachers College Record, the groundbreaking study is based on a nationally representative sample of 553 students in 1st through 5th grades.

The PSID has followed a nationally representative sample of families and their children since 1968.

The results presented here are based upon a nationally representative, stratified sample of 1,138 adults (age 18 years and older) and representative oversamples of the following subgroups: public school teachers, parents of school - age children, African Americans, and Hispanics.

While seventy - nine percent of the nationally representative sample of 13 - to 19 - year - olds said they felt motivated and inspired to work hard in school, only 31 percent reported that they were «significantly challenged» academically and that their schools set high expectations.

Our studies in a nationally representative sample of primary schools in England found that food chosen and eaten by children taking school lunches was healthier than that eaten by children with packed lunches — containing less sugar, fat and salt.

In the math study, nationally representative samples of 4th and 8th graders in 2001 took a computer - based math test and...

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He says his new analysis of nationally representative data found that of 926 unmarried couples followed from 2009 to 2011, those who met online were twice as likely to marry as those who met offline.

For example, a recent nationally representative survey conducted in the United States revealed that 17 % of heterosexual couples and 41 % of same - sex couples met over the internet.1 However, as anyone who has ever dated online can tell you, internet dating is a tricky business.

Researchers gathered their data from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative poll from the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago.

Garcia is also scientific advisor to Match.com and, along with Helen Fisher, is principal investigator of its annual nationally representative survey of American singles, «Singles in America.»

Abstract: Using the first nationally representative survey to focus on internet dating, we identify those «at risk» of using internet dating, i.e., one must have internet access and have been single in the past five years during the technology's growth.

Results were weighted to be nationally representative by age and gender.

See how your views about online dating stack up with the rest of the population by first answering a few questions, then compare your responses with the 2,252 randomly sampled adults who took part in a nationally representative survey conducted by.

Today's teenagers aren't hurrying up to grow up.The authors of a recent studypublished in the journal Child Development examined 7 large, nationally representative surveys of US adolescents between 1976 — 2016, or

And in fact, research suggests that there are no significant personality differences between online and offline daters.5 There is some evidence that online daters are more sensitive to interpersonal rejection, but even these findings have been mixed.6, 7 As far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losers.8

However, results of another highly publicized survey suggested that online relationships were less likely to morph into marriages and more likely to break up.9 This survey also used a nationally representative sample of American adults.

In a study commissioned by dating site eHarmony, Cacciopo and colleagues surveyed a nationally representative sample of 19,131 American adults who were married between 2005 and 2012.8 Over one - third of those marriages began with an online meeting (and about half of those occurred via a dating website).

The researchers asked a group of 316 nationally representative online daters to review one of the four sample online dating profiles, which had some combination of high or low selective self - presentation and high or low warranting.

The differences in how people select partners were further illustrated by a nationally representative omnibus study eHarmony conducted with Opinion Research Corp..

One nationally representative study of Tinder users conducted by Tinder across the U.S., fielded in the first two weeks of February 2017.