Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic disadvantage»

Hyperbolic discounting curves for subject groups differing by DRD4 genotype (7 - repeat allele present, absent) and by exposure (yes, no) to an early family environment of socioeconomic disadvantage.

Parental investment in childhood and educational qualifications: Can greater parental involvement mediate the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?

Association between children's experience of socioeconomic disadvantage and adult health: a life - course study

Within - race regressions revealed that girls» future aspirations were important for their expected role timing, even within the context of socioeconomic disadvantage (welfare receipt, low family income).

The detailed aspects of socioeconomic disadvantage controlled in the study explained much of the difference across groups.

While the brain is most malleable in early childhood, it nonetheless retains a substantial degree of plasticity throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which the timing and duration of socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with brain structural differences is virtually unexplored in the neuroscience literature to date.

This standardization of early schooling happens most vigorously in places of socioeconomic disadvantage.

Although between - school differences in student performance are closely associated with socioeconomic status in all OECD countries, some countries have been more successful than others in reducing the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage.

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

In the case of Hispanics in the U.S., low cigarette consumption seems powerful enough to counteract a slew of socioeconomic disadvantages that often result in poor health and early death.

Not exact matches

A proxy indicator of SES was assigned based on participant's residential postcode using the Australian Bureau of Statistic's Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage / Disadvantage (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007b).

Further, the M - % DI system was associated with a positive gradient between increasing socioeconomic disadvantage and comprehension of the labelling systems, whereas the TL labels resulted in equitable performance across SES groups.

For lower socioeconomic women and often black women, yes, a marriageable man is one who has a job, but drug use and trafficking, under - or unemployment, the high rates of men in jail and the higher mortality rates for black men in their community put them at marital disadvantage — there are fewer men in their dating pool (And as I addressed previously, strong black women are often seen as being a detriment to black men's masculinity.)

We heard from directors and managers working in districts of every size and socioeconomic makeup, and in schools large and small, disadvantaged and affluent we heard many of the same issues and concerns echoed.

The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.

We examined whether mothers were more likely to start and continue to breastfeed if they delivered in a UNICEF UK Baby Friendly accredited maternity unit, in a cohort with a high representation of disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups with traditionally low rates of breastfeeding.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

The assumption is that if you are black and come from a socioeconomically middle class home, you no longer suffer the significant disadvantage of race, as race - related disadvantages are overcome when the lower socioeconomic status is overcome.

Additional risk was associated with being Indigenous and with markers of social disadvantage such as low socioeconomic status.

«These findings drive home the fact that disadvantaged socioeconomic groups, and parts of the developing world, are still struggling with access to adequate nutrition,» Ross adds.

«The fact that economic disadvantage is so often a part of the experience of minorities in the U.S. has made it difficult to estimate the relative effects of race and socioeconomic status on behaviors that impact health,» says Thorpe.

A concern is that not adjusting readmissions data for poverty or other socioeconomic factors could mislead the public into thinking that hospitals with a large share of disadvantaged patients provide lower - quality care than hospitals with more affluent patients.

«People that have a more disadvantaged socioeconomic status tend to have less satisfying and less safe sexual relations, as well as suffering more experiences of sexual abuse.

Similarly, disadvantaged students in advantaged schools are more than one year of schooling higher than those in average socioeconomic level schools.»

Students of color and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at a disadvantage when it comes to teachers» expectations.

Disadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantDisadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantageddisadvantaged schools.

They define equity, disadvantage and student needs along socioeconomic lines; allocate resources to schools at least partially on the basis of students» backgrounds; and design programs and interventions specifically for low socioeconomic and Indigenous students.

«For example, it has the highest proportion of resilient students (19.2 per cent), that is, disadvantaged students who perform among the top 25 percent of students across all participating countries and economies after controlling for socioeconomic status.»

The effects of attending a high - poverty school are not simply the aggregate effects of out - of - school poverty, either; the schools themselves disadvantage those who attend, regardless of their families» socioeconomic status.

The Declaration proclaimed that the Australian governments «must ensure that socioeconomic disadvantage ceases to be a significant determinant of educational outcomes».

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

As shown in Figure 1, we find that students with socioeconomic disadvantages tend to have less of a growth mindset.

That is, we know that education is key to turning around current levels of Indigenous socioeconomic disadvantage.

Discussing educational disadvantage, it cites 2015 research suggesting many students are not able to access «taster» work experience for a variety of reasons — including gender, disability, cultural background and socioeconomic status.

... the difference between advantaged students and disadvantaged students (those in the lowest quartile of socioeconomic background) is even larger: 90 score points on average across the OECD and 87 score points in Australia.

The loadings would cover six identified forms of disadvantage — low socioeconomic background, indigenous background, limited English, rural or small schools and disability.

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

The challenges of overcoming socioeconomic disadvantages can not be ignored if we are to develop an education system that will prepare all students to be productive members of the twenty - first century.

The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically - disadvantaged households.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development: The Differential Effects of School Exposure

Specifically, the United States had the largest increase — 12 percentage points — in the percentage of «resilient» students, defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status.

At any point over at least the last 50 years, a synthesis of available empirical evidence would have suggested, quite unambiguously, that students having difficulty at school, especially those disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, learn more when they are working in heterogeneous rather than in homogeneous ability groups (e.g., Oakes, 1985; Yonezawa, Wells, and Serna, 2002).

Further, to the extent that the biggest advantage of socioeconomic integration may be direct peer effects (Reid, 2012)-- picking up knowledge and habits from high - achieving, highly motivated peers — high - poverty schools will always be at a disadvantage, given the strong relationship between students» own socioeconomic statuses and their academic performance.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

It could arguably amount to something of an affirmative action program for the socioeconomically disadvantaged, but Richard Sander's research shows that nothing cultivates true law student diversity — ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic or otherwise — better than preferential admission policies for low - income applicants.

Major depression is common in people over the age of 50, particularly in those at socioeconomic disadvantage, or with poor physical health and previous depressive symptoms

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

The primary goal of this study is to integrate measures of childhood family disadvantage — socioeconomic deprivation, family disruption, housing tenure and parental interest in education — and measures of child development — birth weight, health, cognition and behaviour — such that the relative indications of each net of the others may be explored.

With the exception of communication skills at 0 — 1 years, socioeconomic disadvantage was associated with poorer outcomes across all ages and measures.