Sentences with phrase «various school characteristics»

While selection bias is still a concern, it is worthwhile noting that the authors control for a very rich set of covariates including student demographics, parental income, parental education, student AFQT score, freshman year GPA, state of birth and various school characteristics.

In order to investigate the role of both the intentional and unintentional factors, we explore the extent to which various school characteristics explain variation in the allocation of resources within a school district.

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(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.»)

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

Working in cooperation with the Texas Education Agency, the University of Texas at Dallas's Texas Schools Project has combined various data sets to create a database of key characteristics of both teachers and students during this period in all Texas public sSchools Project has combined various data sets to create a database of key characteristics of both teachers and students during this period in all Texas public schoolsschools.

I then examine whether these survey measures, which are not observed by the inspectors, are higher in schools that received better inspection ratings, controlling for various characteristics of the schools and survey respondents.

First, I demonstrate that inspection ratings can aid in distinguishing between more - and less - effective schools, even after controlling for test scores and various other school characteristics.

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.

At any such point, is a random variable with Still conditioning on, consider counterfactual outcomes as varies over, averaging over the conditional distribution of given: There is a structural function interpretation for: within a school with, we can obtain potential expected output for various assigned values of the teacher input, holding constant the distribution of classroom characteristics (at the conditional distribution of given).

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

Both sets of data, however, reveal that percentages differed by various school and student characteristics.

The analyses broadly laid out the «system» of schools in the city — including public, charter, and private schools — to delineate where Milwaukee schoolchildren are being educated, student demographics in the various types of schools, and the performance characteristics of those schools.

As a national study, providing information at a high level of statistical precision about various subgroups (defined by characteristics such as race / ethnicity, sex, disability status, school type such as private versus public school, etc.), MGLS: 2017 is a large undertaking.

Data from the interviews were used to document the characteristics of various school - level factors at each school site, as well as the extent of the reform effort at that school.

Teachers also completed a checklist asking about various topics they felt they should cover during the year on characteristics of effective schools and teachers; these topics were covered on the Internet site.

Finally, the teachers also completed a questionnaire about their perceptions regarding the presence of various school and classroom characteristics, and their opinions about where their school should focus its reform efforts during the upcoming year.

Various background characteristics of children were explored to identify the children most likely to score in the borderline or abnormal ranges of each of the SDQ scales at entry to primary school.

After summarizing the results from two studies the author conducted in Montessori middle schools, the chapter discusses nine characteristics of Montessori education in relation to various theoretical perspectives on education and development.