Essentially, the ratio between the GDP per capita of an immigrant's country of birth and that of Canada, measured at the time of graduation or at the time of immigration, is used as an indicator of schooling quality and of work experience quality and is interacted with the years of schooling and work experience variables.
In addition to looking at measures that go into the school rating, the improvement process should begin with a deep look at a variety of data -- including indicators of school culture and instructional quality.
Steinberg's legislation would have added other indicators of school performance to the API such as a such as a "college preparedness index" and a "career readiness index," and come up with a new school ranking system to be called the "Education Quality Index".
In 2012, Georgia stepped up its efforts to close the achievement gap by revising its System Indicators of Quality (or school report cards) to encourage schools to work harder toward the end goal.
Other factors negatively related with upward mobility are residential race segregation, indicators of bad quality of the school system, and weak family structures measured by the fraction of single parents in the area.
School quality and content: perceived quality of schooling, the quality of schooling (whether school offered college preparatory classes) and participation in extracurricular activities in high school.
But the general public continues to believe the propaganda that the tests are important indicators of the quality of our schools.
14Since the school quality indicator is computed on OECD countries, many observations for non-OECD countries are lost.
It does not dump the money into programs operated by public-school systems (though states are free to do so) and it allows funds to be used for developing better indicators of program quality and kindergarten readiness.
