Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic status looking»

The researchers also measured socioeconomic status looking at median household income, the percentage of individuals living below the poverty level, and whether or not they had a high school education.

Not exact matches

Also, I too am a teacher and believe very strongly that this issue is one that is directly linked to socioeconomic status; my school district is a particularly wealthy one, and the school - provided lunches look absolutely NOTHING like Mrs Q's lunches.

Researchers look for correlations between parenting and child outcomes, and then try to control for other factors (like socioeconomic status) using statistical analysis.

«Even when the studies did look at free and reduced lunch or socioeconomic status of the kids... they still in many cases did not find a correlation between AP and college success,» Pope said in an interview.

Researchers used a dataset of 346,660 people from the American Institutes of Research, which tracked a representative sample of Americans over 50 years, looking at personality traits and vocational interests in adolescence, along with intelligence and socioeconomic status.

After accounting for factors like age, race, medications and socioeconomic status, which could skew the results, they looked for patterns that suggested links between mental illness and infection rates.

The study found these relationships despite adjusting for factors such as socioeconomic status but did not look at other factors that contribute to the children's obesity.

The team also assessed the «nurture» aspect of altruism, looking at the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and the sharing of prize tokens.

«There have been several studies relating cortisol levels in teenagers and adults to socioeconomic status, but this is the first to look at this relationship among pregnant women and their babies,» said study author Zaneta Thayer, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology at CU Denver, a major center of timely, topical and relevant research.

To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.

So the researchers did a second analysis — by looking only at Facebook and non-Facebook users on the California voter rolls, a sort of proxy control for socioeconomic status.

Looking at life - course epidemiological studies, the secret lies in two questions: Are you comfortable in your socioeconomic status, and do you like your job?

Males tend to look for younger females and females look at the socioeconomic status of potential partners.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

If we look at a different marker of socioeconomic status, parental education levels, we find a similar pattern.

They also looked at how ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and levels of parental warmth affected those interactions.

Here we looked at data for the entire district and broken out by students» race / ethnicity and socioeconomic status.

If you look at student achievement data, say in New York state, results on the typical New York state test correlate to socioeconomic status in reading, one and a half to two times as much as they do in math.

Not surprisingly, parent socioeconomic status is strongly predictive of student test scores, and, looking at simple correlations, we find that less - advantaged students do tend to be assigned to teachers with lower VA measures.

The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks at noncognitive factors in the school.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

They looked at health, socioeconomic status and the child's exact age.

Research identifying summer setback learning loss in students of lower socioeconomic status has attracted many educators to take a closer look at the current purpose, structure, and effectiveness of summer intervention programs.

According to Education Week: The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks...

My Findings Using data from the High School Longitudinal study of 2009 (HSLS 09) and the above methodology, I indeed found that when initially looking at the relationship of participation in a school choice program and student learning, there exists a positive effect for students of low socioeconomic status.

Looking at everything from race, gender, and socioeconomic status to religious ideals, family rituals, and external support systems will help you get a good picture of a family's culture.