Sentences with phrase «student background characteristics»

These measures can be adjusted for student background characteristics.

Our data contain only basic information on student background characteristics, such as gender, race or ethnicity, and eligibility for subsidized lunch.

How successfully can they isolate the contributions of individual teachers from student background characteristics like poverty or English language proficiency?

«Our data contain only basic information on student background characteristics, such as gender, race or ethnicity, and eligibility for subsidized lunch,» the researchers reported.

Brazil and Andersson controlled for a variety of student background characteristics, such as GPA, academic achievement, college expectations, family socioeconomic status and household structure.

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.

The version we use takes into account student background characteristics and schooling environment factors, including students» socioeconomic status (SES), while simultaneously calculating school - average student test - score growth.

Looking at the Spanish and English reading benefits associated with these four language acquisition approaches, this study takes into account differences in student background characteristics, including family economic standing, student immigrant status, gender, and age at school entry, students» initial English instructional rating, bilingual program exposure (in years), and factors associated with school context.

The second approach, typically associated with value - added models (VAM), controls for student background characteristics and under some conditions can be used to identify the causal effects of schools and teachers on student achievement.

The ACER report provides an analysis of Australian students» financial literacy background in the context of student background characteristics: Indigenous background, geographic location, immigrant and language background, and socioeconomic background.

These findings are obtained after adjustments for levels of economic development across countries, student background characteristics, and features of national school systems.

The SRI analysis looked at four years of data, controlled for student background characteristics, demographics and prior achievement.