Early in this century Jim Collins challenged business leaders and those of us in the public sector, including schools, to think about how good is good enough and why some organizations rise to a level of productivity and corresponding public recognition above that of other organizations with seemingly similar or even worse input and
other contextual factors of production.
Not exact matches
The budding number
of sensors will detect and act on environmental and
other contextual factors, such as weather; will be aware
of who and how many people are around in its vicinity to change levels
of input and output; and adjust to save resources and improve safety.
Of course, creativity without its
contextual factors — such as the one and the many — would also be empty, a mere abstraction, but not quite in the same sense as those
other factors.
The variability
of the reported benefits may be due to scoring experiences being unique in some respects, due to who the participants are, which assessment is being marked, as well as
other contextual factors.
Since a variety
of contextual and
other factors have been shown to virtually preclude simple importation
of one school's solution to another school, the examples in this series
of cases are not intended to apply directly to any
other school.
It also discusses system supports (planning, communication, program and funding stability, data systems, and relationship to
other human resource policies) and broader
contextual factors (e.g., stakeholder satisfaction) that impede or enhance implementation
of performance pay systems.
Through implementation research, the influence
of elements
of the STEM schools» design and
other contextual factors, such as state policies, are being examined.
(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development
of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding
of the cultural and
contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development
of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process
of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit
of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or
other related fields.
The methodological approach separates the effects
of teacher characteristics from school characteristics by modeling the relationship between the assessments
of school
contextual factors by one set
of teachers and the turnover decisions by
other teachers within the same school.
Where reasonable apprehension
of bias has been found, it is often in conjunction with
other statements and
contextual factors at hand.
unique effects
of ADHD (controlling for
other personal
contextual factors) alongside the unique
of
Continuities in family socialization and
contextual risks across generations, as well as genetic
factors, are associated with the development
of psychopathology — including both externalizing and internalizing problems in children — and to intergenerational associations in the use
of alcohol, tobacco, and
other.
The primary constructs within the hypothesized framework are: (1) social position variables — characteristics that are used within societies to hierarchically stratify groups (race, gender, socioeconomic status); (2) parenting variables — familial mechanisms that may influence African American adolescents well - being, perceptions
of competence, and attitudes towards
others in various contexts (e.g., parenting practices and racial socialization messages); (3) racial discrimination — negative racially driven experiences that may influence feelings
of competence, belongingness, and self - worth; (4) environmental /
contextual factors — settings and surroundings that may impede or promote healthy identity development (e.g., academic settings); and (5) learner characteristics — individual characteristics that may promote or hinder positive psychological adjustment outcomes (e.g., racial identity, coping styles).
This may reflect multiple
factors, such as under - reporting
of symptoms in caregivers with low educational level due to difficulties in verbal comprehension, as highlighted by Kessler and Üstün (2004) or
other contextual factors associated with work commitments in highly educated caregivers (Parkes et al. 2015).
The success
of most interventions with parents, or with parents and children, is inevitably influenced by
contextual factors — poverty, poor housing, the absence
of safe space for children's play and recreation, unemployment and a range
of other sources
of community and environmental stress.