Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic backgrounds studying»

«The first three years of this program have been very successful, as we awarded scholarships to students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds studying across a diverse array of species and veterinary disciplines.»

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All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

By using pairs of sisters who spent differing amounts of time living with their fathers, the study was able to control for inherited genes and environmental conditions, such as socioeconomic status or religious background, to isolate the effects of fathering quality on daughters.

In analysing 28 studies that reported an association between socioeconomic status and bullying, and adjusting for bias, the review showed that bullies were not more likely to come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and were only marginally less likely to come from the highest socioeconomic levels (2 % less likely).

Contrary to some hypotheses, adult - onset offenders in this study were not found to come from significantly wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds, nor were they any more intelligent than those who were caught younger.

There is a tendency to highlight the importance of cognitive achievements and the family's socioeconomic background for people's success in the future, but this study shows that children's self - regulation, which comprises children's social skills and processing of emotions, directs the future development in a profound way in different domains of life.

Therefore it is very important that our results are replicated in other studies with more diverse socioeconomic and racial / ethnic backgrounds,» said lead author Meng Yang, research fellow at the Harvard Chan School.

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

The researchers looked at 156 studies on the effectiveness of parenting programs for reducing disruptive behavior in children ages 2 to10; the studies involved more than 15,000 families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds in 20 countries.

Ninety - one percent of the children who participated in the study were African - American, from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and spent most of their time indoors.

«Because peanuts [which do not grow on trees] are much less expensive than tree nuts, as well as more widely available to people of all races and all socioeconomic backgrounds, our study finding suggests that increasing peanut consumption may provide a potentially cost - efficient approach to improving cardiovascular health,» Shu said.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

According to more than 40 studies of elementary, middle, and high school English classrooms, discussion - based practices improve comprehension of the text and critical - thinking skills for students across ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic contexts (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, Gamoran, 2003).

Pupils from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may be held back by their A Level subject choices when applying for elite university places, a study has found.

Studies show that school and community relationships have positive results on students stretched across all racial, socioeconomic, and education backgrounds.

Several more recent studies have shown that the same image of a scientist persists over a range of socioeconomic, racial, and gender backgrounds.

After all, as recent studies of the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act has shown, focusing on socioeconomic achievement gaps improves outcomes for minority and White children (as well as struggling and high - achieving children of all backgrounds).

Its elementary model was recently the subject of a multi-year study that showed UChicago Charter is effectively addressing educational inequality and closing the achievement gap that has persisted between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

A multi-year study of students enrolled in two - way dual - language programs in North Carolina between 2007 and 2010, found that low - income black children in these programs scored higher in reading and math than their classmates of the same race and socioeconomic background who were being taught in one language.

The study underscored the need for equality of access to technology because major discrepancies were noted among the results for young adults from varying socioeconomic backgrounds.

Studies of college enrollment and graduation rates of scholarship alumni have shown that, despite coming from socioeconomic backgrounds associated with lower rates of college enrollment, Children's Scholarship Fund students enroll in college at an average rate that is similar to or higher than the general population.

What becomes clear from the Penn study is that young black children are placed on the school - to - prison pipeline more - often than children from any other socioeconomic background.

High school rigor and good advice: Setting up students to succeed In fact, a study under the guidance of Jim Hull, senior policy analyst at the Center for Public Education found that low achieving students and students from a low socioeconomic background who took an AP or IB course were 17 percent more likely to persist in four year colleges and 30 percent more likely to persist in two year colleges.

There are many studies that show the long - term benefits of two years of preschool for children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

This has been confirmed by numerous studies, most particularly those that focus on value added for individual students after controlling for background characteristics like socioeconomic status.

This study provides evidence that a diversity of family background (socioeconomic deprivation, housing tenure, family disruption and parental interest), health and development (cognition and behaviour) measures gives powerful independent childhood indications for general health and mental well - being in early adulthood, whereas limiting long - standing illness in adulthood is most strongly indicated by health difficulties in childhood.

Strong gradients of association between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adult health have been consistently observed in a number of British, and other, populations at various stages within their life course, with outcomes considered including all - cause mortality, general health measures and specific causes of mortality and morbidity.1 — 10 This study continues to provide clear evidence for association between childhood socioeconomic deprivation and adult general health and mental well - being, even considered within a broad context of child well - being including other aspects of family background, health and development.

Because media use practices and motivations vary among families from different backgrounds, 21 we also aimed to study whether these associations vary by family characteristics, such as socioeconomic status (SES), primary language, and race / ethnicity.

An exploratory study of the effects of mindfulness on perceived levels of stress among school - children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

Secondly, it is acknowledged that for understanding the determinants and development of behaviour and mental health information is needed at different levels, that is, social (e.g. socioeconomic background), psychological (e.g. temperament), and biological (HPA - function, DNA).18 Adherence to the second principle is demonstrated by the broad range of measures that has been included in the study (Table 2).

Other studies do suggest that parents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have greater difficulties recognising health problems, 17 and those with lower levels of income and education are more likely to believe that child health problems will improve on their own.18 CfC may thus have been successful in getting parents to recognise physical functioning problems in their young children, but there had been insufficient time for these functioning problems to be addressed once they were identified.

Many studies focus on white, middle - class children and families, but children with different ethnic / racial / cultural or socioeconomic backgrounds may fare better under different types of guidance.

The current study examines the processes and associations discussed above among an ethnically diverse sample of girls from primarily low socioeconomic backgrounds and attending public middle schools in a large metropolitan area.

Finally, this study examined whether the stability of problem behavior depends on gender and socioeconomic background.

This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy - seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower - middle - class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in vocabulary acquisition of their three - and - a-half-year-old children.

To examine whether the emotions in the emotion picture book were interpreted as they were intended, we asked 67 respondents (36 % male) between 20 and 63 years of age (M = 34.0, SD = 12.9) with a similar socioeconomic background as the participants in the main study to label the emotions of the children in the pictures.