More directly, I can define teacher and
school factors based on the college attendance data and measure the predictive effect of the teacher factor on college attendance.
Not exact matches
When it came time to attend college, he
based his decision on a number of
factors, including points given for a
school's style.
In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high
school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high
school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is
based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk
factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.
She knew this about me, about my admission to medical
school and dropping out, and on the
basis of the internal
factors which drove me, in the past, to get into medical
school, so calculated that I was not much of a risk at all even though I was broke and continued to be so for the first three years of our marriage.
Acceptance into the Prairie Moon Waldorf
School Early Childhood Program is based on the school's ability to meet children's needs, as well as on factors such as age r
School Early Childhood Program is
based on the
school's ability to meet children's needs, as well as on factors such as age r
school's ability to meet children's needs, as well as on
factors such as age ratios.
Admission is
based on a review of many
factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our
School, and the student's ability to give something back to our
School community.
Acceptances into the Early Childhood programs at the Hartsbrook
School are based on the school's ability to meet the particular child's needs, as well as on factors such as age ratios in the
School are
based on the
school's ability to meet the particular child's needs, as well as on factors such as age ratios in the
school's ability to meet the particular child's needs, as well as on
factors such as age ratios in the class.
The NCAA's policies regarding early college credits and eligibility are somewhat inconsistent and vary
based on the
factors listed above, specifically if the classes are taken at a high
school or at a college.
Allocations for non-maintained special
schools are
based on the pupil number data from the January 2015
school census; and allocations for special post-16 institutions are
based upon the individualised learner record (ILR) data and 16 to 19 national funding formula average funding
factors.
Michigan: Custody is awarded
based on the best interests of the child,
based on the following
factors: moral character and prudence of the parents; physical, emotional, mental, religious and social needs of the child; capability and desire of each parent to meet the child's emotional, educational, and other needs; preference of the child, if the child is of sufficient age and maturity; the love and affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and each parent; the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity; the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving frequent relationship between the child and other parent; the child's adjustment to his / her home,
school, and community; the mental and physical health of all parties; permanence of the family unit of the proposed custodial home; any evidence of domestic violence; and other
factors.
Individual - and
School - Level
Factors Related to
School -
Based Salad Bar Use Among Children and Adolescents.
Randomised controlled trial of primary
school based intervention to reduce risk
factors for obesity
New York education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure
school success and failure
based on
factors other than test scores.
The phase - in
factor varies from 0.47 percent to 13.6 percent, with specific rates for the five largest city
school districts (New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers) and more general rates for other districts
based on district demographics.14
One suggestion broached by the New York State Association of
School Business Officials and other Albany -
based groups is to set the baseline cap at a flat 2 percent, getting rid of the inflation rate as a
factor.
«We appreciate the important reforms lawmakers made to the property tax cap, such as excluding some BOCES capital costs and including PILOTs in the tax
base growth
factor,» The New York State
School Boards Association said in a statement Friday.
Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the
factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian
schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them
based on their uniqueness.
School district officials have countered that aid estimates for each district change each year based on factors such as enrollment, property values, and how the state calculates school
School district officials have countered that aid estimates for each district change each year
based on
factors such as enrollment, property values, and how the state calculates
school school needs.
Most students will choose their graduate
school program
based on less - relevant
factors, such as geographical location, or the general reputation of the university.
In hopes of identifying
factors that influence children's responses to reading interventions, the MIT team set up two summer
schools based on a program known as Lindamood - Bell.
«We're planning to use these results as a
basis for future studies to better understand how reducing these risk
factors may possibly lower the frequency of memory complaints,» said author Fernando Torres - Gil, a professor at UCLA's Luskin
School of Public Affairs and associate director of UCLA's Longevity Center.
Gil Mor of the Yale
School of Medicine and his colleagues
based the novel screening tool on four proteins: leptin, prolactin, osteopontin and insulinlike growth
factor II.
Currently,
school -
based intervention programs focus heavily on individuals and peer
factors, but the researchers encourage programs that widen that focus to include community and family
factors.
The United Kingdom -
based group, led by Julie Williams, Ph.D., Cardiff University
School of Medicine, Wales, found the same genes as risk
factors and identified a gene variant ABCA7 as an additional gene of interest.
The other
school of thought says that you end up with better matches if you match
based on complementary
factors.
We believe that one of the greatest
school -
based factors for improving education today is empowering educators with opportunities to develop a growth mindset by working together to build skills and strategies to increase the impact of their instruction in the classroom.
For high
schools, there will also be a «Prepared for Success» component,
based on
factors such as dual - enrollment and AP and IB tests.
Australian parents decide which primary
school is best for their child
based personal
factors that go beyond academic outcomes, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
In a new study, researchers find that seniority -
based layoff policies — the norm in public
schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining
factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.
What a huge loss: As research consistently shows, teacher quality is the single most important
school -
based factor in student learning.
The state calculates the money associated with each teacher and instructional - support unit for every
school based on four
factors: the costs of teacher salaries, employee benefits, classroom support, and other current expenses.
In almost every
school district in the country, teachers are currently paid
based solely on their years of experience and degree level, despite a consensus in the scientific community that these two
factors bear little relationship to their success in improving student performance.
Although any unmeasured
school factors that are unrelated to principal quality would not bias these results, such
factors would inflate our estimates of the variation in principal quality
based on these approaches.
For most of the century just past, and into the current one,
school districts have paid their teachers according to a «single salary schedule,» a pay scheme that
bases an individual teacher's salary on two
factors: years of experience (steps) and number of education credits and degrees (lanes).
7) Reasonable funding levels
based on the needs of particular student enrollments and other
factors outside of district control, but also discretion by local district taxpayers to augment the funding of their
schools.
Using this data, we analyzed each
school's math network to examine whether the physical proximity of pairs of staff,
based on their reported room numbers, predicted an interaction between them about math, after controlling for
factors prior research has shown predict such relationships.
These sites all offer users the ability to compare their
school with others in the same
school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank
schools based on test performance or other
factors.
Another
factor, not only in a cluster -
based arrangement, another thing that needs to be thought about is a more differentiated communication out to sites and out to
schools, cognisant of the fact that in some
schools teaching principals have significant classroom contact and yet have to address systems issues as well, and surely there are ways to have a better targeting approach to things.
«The quality of a teacher is the most critical
school -
based factor in student success.
It grades K - 8
schools based on a combination of static test scores, value - added test scores, and the results of a
school climate survey, and their high
school grades also
factor in rates of high
school completion and college matriculation.
Unlike charter
schools, which must be open to all, enrollment criteria should be established for virtual
schools based on
factors proven necessary for student success.
The fact that we obtain quite similar results regardless of the specific measure used makes us confident that the findings are not driven by other
factors that might distinguish public
schools facing more or less competition
based on a given measure.
Potential employees will make their decision whether they want to work for a particular
school based on a number of
factors such as Ofsted ratings, reputation and catchment areas.
The graph shows that students in these three ICSEA -
based groupings of
schools have different average reading levels and gives some indication of the influence of socioeconomic
factors on between -
school differences in student performance.
Because opt - out is a grassroots phenomenon, communities varied in the extent of their participation,
based in part on
factors such as: 1) degree of parental involvement in the local
schools, 2) whether the local PTA had an organized advocacy committee, 3) parental awareness of
school - reform issues, and 4) access to the Internet and social media.
Dyer was one of the speakers at a presentation, «Retaining and Attracting Fantastic Principals: Eight Research -
based Factors,» at a recent convention of the Association for
School Curriculum Development (ASCD).
«While those five
factors are not representative of all
schools it's helpful for teachers to know that these are the different ways students think about responsibility so that in their engagement with students and the way they structure their curriculum, develop policies in
schools, this is part of the knowledge
base that can inform their decision making.»
Individual
schools would receive federal funds
based on student counts, with a weighting formula to adjust for
factors such as the increased burden of educating high - need students and for regional differences in costs.
Standards -
based reform was fed by three
factors: increased expectations for learning beyond high
school, which led to a focus on college readiness for all; the availability of reliable and cheap measures of student proficiency in reading and math; and the push for teacher and
school accountability.
In terms of the
school factors, obviously in reality there's a whole range of
factors that
schools may influence on student's engagement level but given the data that we have we can only focus on the
school factors that actually potentially can influence the student engagement
based on the five categories.