Sentences with phrase «school characteristics such»

This study uses data from North Carolina to examine the extent to which survey based perceptions of working conditions are predictive of policy - relevant outcomes, independent of other school characteristics such as the demographic mix of the school's students.

By contrast, our study adds a «bottom - up» approach, focusing not on governance but on salient school characteristics such as instructional hours, academic orientation, grade span, and extracurricular activities — factors that determine what students and families actually experience.

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He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Such a movement of the mind toward God and the neighbor - before - God is characteristic of the Church in all its parts but it is the first duty and a central purpose of the theological school.

Time for SOMEONE to place restrictions on the release (by school districts) of children's names, addresses, pictures and physical characteristics as well as their contact information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

Lead author, Dr Michael Singer from School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Cardiff University, said: «In drylands, convective (or short, intense) rainfall controls water supply, flood risk and soil moisture but we have had little information on how atmospheric warming will affect the characteristics of such rainstorms, given the limited moisture in these areas.»

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

We eventually learn that Lester works as a high school substitute teacher — it's characteristic of the chummy, upscale narrowness of Baumbach's world that details such as what people do for a living usually aren't accorded much importance.

But, to the extent that other characteristics of schools where disadvantaged students are found — such as safety and disciplinary problems, more bureaucratic rules, poor leadership, greater student turnover, or a greater distance to work — are important elements, improving these working conditions could mitigate the turnover problem we have identified.

Whether these characteristics directly affect teachers» decisionmaking or indicate other less tangible factors (such as the disciplinary climate or bureaucratic environment at the school) can not be determined.

Having a strong school professional learning community benefits students and teachers alike, but what are the characteristics of such communities and how do you go about building one?

Some argue that education lacks the characteristics of a fully professional field, such as uniformly recognized standards or a common core of knowledge that is taught in every school of education.

Many of the schools chosen by the students were «better» on traditional indicators, such as student test scores and teacher characteristics.

The report by Congress» investigative arm, «School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs,» focuses on 78 such programs operating around the country that together serve 46,000 students and provide $ 60 million in tuition assistance.

Such a theory would describe how the several components of schooling finances, administration, curriculum, teaching, and student characteristics — could come together in a way that yields educated children.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

What if students knew from the start of the school year that all of their work would be in support of two or three essential questions, such as: What are the characteristics of good problem solvers?

Once I had 15 such stories, Harvard Education Press compiled them with some new material explaining how I found the schools and the common characteristics of the schools.

Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in teacher quality based entirely on within - school heterogeneity indicate that teachers have powerful effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in teacher quality is explained by observable characteristics such as education or experience.

Such students make different choices not because of unmeasured characteristics, but because of a factor out of their control: the distance from home to the nearest charter school.

We also conducted a more sophisticated analysis that measures the relationship between a family's demographic characteristics (such as eligibility for free - or reduced - price lunch, median household income of the student's residential neighborhood, race, and student prior achievement level), a school's poverty level, and the likelihood that the parent makes a request.

School choice interventions have not yet fully considered factors other than a school's academic quality that may lead to success in a P - 12 context (such as particular pedagogical approaches, special programming, or extracurricular offerings) and how best to present those school characteristics to famSchool choice interventions have not yet fully considered factors other than a school's academic quality that may lead to success in a P - 12 context (such as particular pedagogical approaches, special programming, or extracurricular offerings) and how best to present those school characteristics to famschool's academic quality that may lead to success in a P - 12 context (such as particular pedagogical approaches, special programming, or extracurricular offerings) and how best to present those school characteristics to famschool characteristics to families.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.

Remarkable characteristics of Brazilian culture, such as creativity, joy, solidarity, excellence in music, dance, art, sports, are absent in most schools.

Researchers at California State University, East Bay; the Buck Institute for Education; and the College of Marin analyzed data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools, while controlling for individual characteristics, such as verbal ability.

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

As a first test for nonrandom selection of students into or out of particular schools and cohorts of students, we examined whether peer family violence appears to have an effect on cohort size or student characteristics such as race, gender, and income.

Statistically, students with such characteristics often drop out of high school or are among the lowest achievers.

They then seek school variables or student conditions such as household and community characteristics and school service levels (for example, teacher qualifications) that are statistically associated with that performance level.

For example the sample was not representative of the demographics and achievement characteristics of the schools involved nor did it evaluate other variables such as professional development, or literacy coach support, variables which would have influenced the program outcomes.

While public schools and such industries have common characteristics (e.g., leaders, headquarters staff who coordinate and control people, bureaucratic rules, planning for the future, building budgets, providing services), they differ in substantial and fundamental ways.

We also were able to obtain from PISA student reports of their background characteristics and administrator reports on the characteristics of each student's school, including such things as school resources and whether the school was public or private.

A key feature of the SGP approach is that it does not take into account student characteristics, such as race and poverty status, or schooling environments.

So, in our research, we're looking at a whole range of individual characteristics... such as student demographic background, their academic performance and educational aspirations, the number of hours they work after school and their peers» aspirations.

The changes in performance reported below for each group of schools have all been adjusted to take into account any changes between 2001 - 02 and 2002 - 03 in schools» demographic characteristics, such as the share of students participating in the federal school lunch program and the ethnic breakdown of the student body.

However, controlling for the limited set of student characteristics available in school - district databases, such as test scores in the previous grade, is sufficient to account for the assignment of students to teachers based on parent characteristics.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

Since the three groups of schools are similar in their observable characteristics, such as the student body's ethnic makeup, and most likely in other characteristics as well, the only major difference between the always - D schools and the other two groups is the competition they face from vouchers.

«High needs» schools were identified by characteristics such as fewer experienced teachers; more socioeconomically disadvantaged students; a lower neighborhood median income; and fewer students passing state exams.

The database also includes information about pupils» characteristics, such as gender, ethnicity, eligibility for free school meals, and exclusions.

It is not possible to use this methodology to examine elementary schools because testing begins in third grade, so for those schools we compare test - score growth in traditional public schools and charter schools while taking into account student characteristics such as race, age, and special education status.

But those characteristics are also at the heart of the Internet - connectivity challenge for schools in such rural and remote parts of the country.

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.

Universally applying a four - year cohort graduation rate would result in the identification for comprehensive support of a significant number of alternative schools due to their program characteristics and without any regard to the achievements their students make during the time they are enrolled in such schools.

To determine the relationship between teacher collaboration and student achievement, the researchers used reading and math achievement scores for 2,536 fourth - graders, controlling for school context and student characteristics such as prior achievement.

Given the time constraints, Coleman used the proportion of variance in student achievement associated with various educational inputs — such as schools, teacher characteristics, student - reported parental characteristics, and peer characteristics — as a type of divining rod for identifying promising targets for intervention.