On top of the ability to use public enrollment and have their courses, teachers and subjects show up in a public course index, schools can also export their student data for analysis, marketing, research and all that good stuff.
Special-needs schools and Pupil Referral Units will be excluded, as will pupils attending the index school who reside outside the school's borough.
The strengths of the current study include a large representative longitudinal cohort from New South Wales Australiaa) with a very high baseline participation rate; high retention rates over the 6 year period; measured height and weight every year; and strong independent SES indicators of parental education, the government school index and school SES status.
Ranku is still indexing schools, and will be going up against well-established competitors, such as Big Future and College Confidential.
We chose variables purposively from the available dataset, to reflect socio-economic position (household asset index, maternal schooling), demography (maternal age, parity), establishment and familiarity with healthcare options (duration of residence), and socio-cultural milieu (faith).
In the multivariable hierarchical analysis, variables from all levels remained associated with the occurrence of diarrhea in the final model: region, child's age, household goods index, maternal schooling, number of household residents, maternal age, weight-for-age deficit, presence of another child with diarrhea in the household, and occurrence of upper respiratory infections.
To examine the association of physical fitness and obesity with academic achievement and the independent association between fitness and academic achievement after controlling for relevant confounders such as age, parental education, and body mass index in school aged children.
The searchable index categorizes schools by location, area of specialization, and type of program (undergrad/graduate), and offers both your typical information about the school and a really cool comments section: People going to the school can give you the real lowdown on academics, social activities, and the like by putting their thoughts and comments here.
California's Academic Performance Index rates schools based on year-end standardized tests with 1000 being the highest score and 800 being the targeted score.
Because half of the variance of achievement is not heritable, it would seem theoretically possible to create a better index of schools' added value by correcting for other genetically influenced traits.
