Sentences with phrase «other background characteristics»

These data allow for comparisons between children within states who are otherwise similar in their academic achievement as well as in other background characteristics.

Not exact matches

Waldorf School of Princeton welcomes students and employees of any color; race; sexual orientation; ethnic, national, cultural, social, or religious backgrounds; and any other characteristic protected by law in its admissions and employment practices, as well as in participation in its programs and events.

These maps, they say, will show everything from relative sizes of anatomical features to differences in brains associated with age, race, gender, educational background, genetic composition, and other distinguishing characteristics.

«We restrict our searches to people who have minimum education, income, a certain faith or ethnic background and all sorts of other characteristics we likely wouldn't know if we were meeting someone for the first time at a party or bar,» she said.

We're given no clue as to why she's so inept with language, though some explanation might have enabled us to connect this characteristic with other parts of her personality and background; the trait almost appears to be glued on.

It was the education of the parents and other family background characteristics that counted most (see essay by Anna Egalite).

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

These indicate how well a teacher's students did relative to other teachers» students, controlling for prior student achievement and for student and family background characteristics (for example, age, race and ethnicity, disability, free or reduced - price lunch status, and parental education level).

In other words, qualitative differences among teachers have large impacts on the growth in student achievement, even though these differences are not related to the measured background characteristics or to the training teachers have received.

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.

These and the other scattered marginally significant contrasts in the table seem likely to be chance findings, a conclusion supported by the F statistics at the bottom of each column, which test the joint hypothesis that all differences in baseline test scores and background characteristics in the column are 0.

The volume examines the relationship between student performance and socio - economic status, and describes how other individual student characteristics, such as immigrant background and family structure, and school characteristics, such as school location, are associated with socio - economic status and performance.

Many wondered whether these possible effects of child care could be attributed to other variables: the individual characteristics of the children, the child care providers, the other members of the children's peer group, or the family backgrounds themselves.

Rather, students with low test scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.

While a fair amount of evidence suggests that value - added measures adequately adjust for differences in the background characteristics of students in each teacher's classroom — much better than do most other measures — value - added measures are imprecise.

In middle and high schools, students with low test scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.

These include, but are not limited to socioeconomic status, ethnic differences, previous learning, family background, and other characteristics, known and unknown.

Value - added measures are said to be confounded if they are subject to change because of students» socio - economic backgrounds or other student - level characteristics, and also if teachers who are equally effective have persistently different value - added scores because of the types of students they teach.

Most studies put the school - based contribution to what is commonly called the «achievement gap» closer to 20 %, with about 60 % attributable to «student and family background characteristics [which] likely pertain to income / poverty» and the other 20 % unexplained.

People have suggested these patterns might be due to: neighborhood / local area / region of family background; other family background characteristics; high school test scores or high school quality; quality of college attended; choices of majors and occupations; choice of neighborhood or area to live in after college.

Personal characteristics (sex / gender, age, ethnic background, sexual orientation, class or caste, or any other characteristic)

When a new dog is to be coming into our program as an Adopt - A-Bull, we will send out an email to all open foster homes letting everyone know the following: age, sex, history (where the dog is coming from, background, etc.), characteristics, behavior with other dogs & cats (to the best of current knowledge), behavior with children (if known), and the type of home our trainer feels he / she may do best in.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

A quick survey of opinions on social media — across age, background, region, ancestry, race and other characteristics — shows a range of ideas on what is a so - called Canadian value or what inclusion, diversity and tolerance really mean.

If this «catchy label» or Smith's comment was applied to someone who could reasonably be construed to be an actual supporter of the Taliban, whether due to presumed national background, shared faith, or other discernible characteristics (even if erroneously made), these exact same opinion statements should objectively find themselves on the other side of the borderline of a comment that would diminish the esteem of an individual, especially if made outside of the context of an ongoing debate.

To recover compensation, you must show that the medical professionals failed to treat you with the same level of care and timeliness that other medical professionals with a similar specialty and background would have used when faced with your specific characteristics and conditions.

The table below displays the three cheapest auto insurance companies in various St. Pete neighborhoods based on our example driver, along with the annual rate quoted given his driving background and other profile characteristics.

The FTC defines a background screening report as a consumer report when «they serve as a factor in determining a person's eligibility for employment, credit, insurance, housing or other purposes and include information bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics or mode of living.»

Background check reports can contain information ranging from simple identity verification to comprehensive data on criminal history, employment, education, driving history, and other personal characteristics.

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender, age, religion, sexuality and any other protected characteristic — we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and winning teams.

A faculty member may know your academic skills and an employer may know your on - the - job characteristics, but each may not be aware of the other facets of your background.

Code § 5445.2» and also «declines to require a TNC that does not primarily transport minors to conduct a biometric (i.e., the use of a person's physical characteristics and other traits) background check of a TNC driver.»

Background screening reports are «consumer reports» under the FCRA when they serve as a factor in determining a person's eligibility for employment, credit, insurance, housing, or other purposes and they include information «bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living.»

Each of the maternal antenatal and retrospective reports of alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana use and smoking during pregnancy was examined in relation to the MAST and other maternal background characteristics.

The maturity, sex, lifestyle and background of the child and of either of the child's parents, and any other characteristics of the child that the Court thinks are relevant.

Current perceived social network overlap was associated positively with three types of perceived similarity (attitudes and beliefs, leisure interests / pursuits, and background characteristics, in that order), but unrelated to the other types of perceived similarity.

Scores on commitment were associated positively with perceived similarity on attitudes and beliefs (strongest correlation) and also with perceived similarity on three other dimensions: communication style, personality, background characteristics.

In addition, those who share friends in common are likely to be or become similar in other ways as well (e.g., background characteristics, leisure pursuits).

The differential degree to which types of similarity were perceived could be due to actual differences in similarity across these dimensions, but also could have occurred to the degree that it is easier to project certain attributes (activity interests, attitudes) than others (e.g., background characteristics, physical attributes) onto a partner.

We also control for a range of background characteristics of children to explore the importance of the duration of poverty against other factors that could impact on child outcomes.

The couples perceived greater similarity for leisure interests / activities, attitudes and beliefs, and personality than for the other types of similarity (e.g., background characteristics), at both times of the relationship.

Other major factors that commonly influence marital success include age at marriage and educational level of the partners; premarital experiences, including cohabitation, birth of a child, and one's own parents» marriage and divorce; socioeconomic resources; and, couple - level characteristics, which include cultural backgrounds, interpersonal styles, and values.

The multivariate analysis shows that after controlling for other factors, the background characteristics that remained significantly associated with a higher likelihood of parental separation were the parents» relationship status at the birth of the GUS child, whether the birth was planned and income at the time of the first interview (see Table C. 1 in the technical appendix for full results).

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.

This confirms the idea that when affordability is attained across the population through universal health insurance, multiple factors such as parenting, parent's mental health, neighborhood characteristics, parent's background in terms of disadvantage, and other established risk factors continue to play a role in determining patterns of health care for children.