Sentence examples for indices of school from inspiring English sources

Not surprisingly, these students tend to do poorly in school and drag down the aggregate indices of school performance.

The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that added value indices of school achievement are less influenced by genetic factors and more influenced by shared (school) environmental factors than raw achievement scores.

A total of 2083 school children aged 8 14 years from seven schools of varying socioeconomic status (SES) located in rural areas, towns in Karnataka and urban Bangalore in South India, were contacted at baseline out of which 1907 (91.6%) children participated in a longitudinal study on body image perceptions and growth indices of school children, details of which have been published earlier.

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.

Furthermore, the YSR index of truancy probably is better than the YSR indicator of school fear.

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".

By "unemotional issues," Mr. Murphy means measurable indices of a school's performance: how well its curriculum is designed, whether there are provisions for self-review and -- most important -- how the students test.

Schools were classified by this measure of household poverty rather than the area level deprivation index of each school as a school's location may not necessarily coincide with the socio-demographic profile of its pupils, given that secondary school pupils come from a wider catchment area than the area immediately surrounding the school.

R cs is the index of availability of school resources for mathematics instruction in class c at school s.

When the index children were of school age (mean age, 7 years), we conducted a home visit and collected three dust samples, two from the family room and one from the index child's bed.

The competence scales include: activities (amount and quality of participation in sports, hobbies, games as well as jobs and chores), social (number and quality of relationships with others and involvement in organizations), school (an index of competence in school) and total competence score obtained summing the activities, social and school scales (a global index of adaptive functioning).