...Differences in vocabulary development and use in early childhood appear to be closely correlated with socioeconomic status. For the purpose of this paper Socioeconomic Status (SES) is going to be defined using the American Psychological Association’s measurement for socioeconomic status which combines education, income, and occupation. Vocabulary development in early childhood is important because vocabulary size upon entry into kindergarten is one of the most important factors in predicting a child’s ability to succeed in school (Rowe, 2012). When children enter Kindergarten there is often a large gap in the amount of words children from high- and low- SES backgrounds know. The same gap that is present in vocabulary size when children enter...
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...EFFECT SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS HAS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ORTHOPEDIC PATIENT Name: Institution: Professor: Course Title: Date of Submission: A family’s income, education attainment and occupational prestige are referred to as their socio-economic status. This economic status has been viewed to affect the individual’s life opportunities. Life opportunities can be viewed in various aspects, which may include the availability of resources to individuals within the boundaries of health care systems or personal perception of their healthy related qualities of life. The qualities of life are defined as the impact of specific illnesses, injuries, health service policies or medical treatment. The relationship between higher social economic status and higher healthy related qualities of life has been well established. In general, people with a higher social- economic status are said to have a well and good health indicators. Socio-economic status has a great effect on patients that suffer from the orthopedic illnesses. Those individuals that have a much well and stabilized social economic status are much advantaged than those who live below the poverty level. When it comes to health care, those at a higher socio-status are capable of attending the best orthopedic hospitals. If it comes to surgical treatment of the disease, they do attend the best and qualified orthopedic surgical doctors. This can be used to show that, a person at low socio-economic status suffering...
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...International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences July 2012, Vol. 2, No. 7 ISSN: 2222-6990 The Effects of Parental Socio-Economic Status on Academic Performance of Students in Selected Schools in Edu Lga of Kwara State Nigeria Femi Ogunshola, PhD. Department of Industrial and Technological Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria Email: femiogunsola@yahoo.com. A.M. Adewale Department of Biology, School of Natural and Applied Science, Alvan Federal College Of Education, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria Email: mosesremimec@yhoo.com Abstract The relationship between home-based environment factors and the academic performance of students in selected secondary schools within a local government area in Kwara State is investigated. Samples were obtained with one hundred and eighty (180) students randomly selected from three secondary schools. The four factors that were examined and statistically analyses were: parental socio-economic background, parental educational background, parental educational qualification and students’ health statuses. Diverse statistical tests were performed on the various data collected to establish statistical significance of the effects on students’ academic performance. Parental socio-economic statuses and parental educational background did not have significance effect on the academic performance of the students. However, the parental educational qualification and health statuses of the students were identified tom...
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...Sponsors and Socioeconomic Status Socioeconomic status most of the time paves the way for the degree of literacy abilities someone will acquire throughout their life. It has a tremendous impact on how a person’s reading/writing identity is formed. This is largely due to the fact that there are different standards of literacy sponsors for each socioeconomic class, as well as accessibility. The writing we do can take many different forms that represent different extensions of ourselves. We are able to adapt our writing to our surroundings, just like we can adapt our identity to fit certain people or scenarios. Writing is situational and writing helps shape ideologies and ideologies make up part of someone’s identity. Literacy sponsors...
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...Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) influences childhood development of the brain. Social interactions and speech are shaped by social and cultural factors. Two case studies explain the connections among social and cultural factors, the interactions children experience, and results of the children’s language development. The first study investigates relation of family SES, maternal child-directed speech, and child vocabulary growth of 2-year-olds in the United States (Hoff, 2003). The hypothesis being tests is that maternal speech mediated the relation between SES and child vocabulary. Methods: 63 Children between the ages of 16 and 30 months with their mothers were studied. Children were selected to be in close range of their levels of language development. The mothers were asked to videotape their interactions with their child in the most naturalistic situations possible at home. This included mealtime, getting child dressed, as well as mother and child playing with toys. The videotaped sessions included 3 settings and averaged 40 minutes and then repeated 10 weeks later. Families were selected into...
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...non-divorced parents, three kids each with their own room, all European American descents. These are the attributes of how I was raised in a middle-working class family. To be able to step into my student’s shoes whether they are considered high, middle, or lower socioeconomic class I, as a future teacher, need to understand my students and the obstacles they face. “Socioeconomic status or SES is defined by the American Psychological Association as a characterization derived from a combination of education, income and occupation (Yale).” Socioeconomic status isn’t just about financial status but also academics, financial...
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...It might seem that categorizing people into various groups would be assigning unfair labels to them. Nevertheless, this is not necessarily the case. How and why we classify groups determines whether it has a good or bad connotation. The way you classify people can be negative, positive, or even both, depending on how you approach it. As a child, your socioeconomic status is defined by the role your parents or family play in society. Therefore, it is largely out of their control at this point in their life. Which is why children classifying each other by socioeconomic status is a negative and unfair thing to do. For example, a child may not have much money, so they cannot wear the latest fashions. This can lead to the child being made...
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...Christopher Germino ETH/125 Diversity Organizations Paper The status of women in United States history, The serious studies of women written by amateur women scholars were ignored by the male-dominated history profession until the 1960s, when the first breakthroughs came. The field of women's history exploded dramatically after 1970, along with the growth of the new social history and the acceptance of women into graduate programs in history departments. An important development is to integrate women into the history of race and slavery. A pioneer effort was Deborah Gray White's 'Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985), which helped to open up analysis of race, slavery, abolitionism and feminism, as well as resistance, power, and activism, and themes of violence, sexualities, and the body. A major trend in recent years has been to emphasize a global perspective. The status of women in United States today, women in the U.S. have made big advances in every field. Yet discrimination still exists. Doing "A Man's Job" As women have gradually become leaders in the professions — in medicine, law, and business, for example — they also have taken jobs once regarded as too physically strenuous. Women have become sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, and coal miners. Some examples of concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity in society and media are, a man or a woman in our society is not just defined by...
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...THE STUDENT AND TEACHER FACTORS AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS IN TECHNOLOGY AND LIVELIHOOD EDUCAION A Baby Thesis Submitted To: DR. ANTONIO L. DEL ROSARIO In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Research Methodology By: GLORIA P. QUILAO June, 2014 DEDICATION I dedicate this paper to my family and many friends. A special feeling of gratitude to my loving parents, Isidro, Jr. and Gloria Principe whose words of encouragement and push for tenacity ring in my ears. My brothers Boots, Chronus and Mickey who have never left my side and are very special. I also dedicate this paper to my many friends who have supported me throughout the process. I will always appreciate all they have done. I dedicate this work and give special thanks to my husband Alex and my wonderful daughters Alyssa and Czykhryx who have been my best cheerleaders. ABSTRACT Academic performance of students is influenced by teacher factors and student factors. Teacher factors are the competencies, age, and gender, teaching position or designation and length of teaching in years. While student factors are the student’s gender as well, academic motivation, and family. The purpose of this thesis is to gain an in depth understanding of exactly which factor is greatly related to academic performance of students. In order to gain the in depth knowledge required for the paper a questionnaire is distributed to 1o teachers and 10 students for each teacher. CHAPTER I:...
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...Education and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh Nashid Kamal *and K.M Zunaid** *Professor and Head, Department of Population-Environment Independent University, Bangladesh **Graduate student, Sydney 1 Abstract: In Bangladesh the latest BDHS, 2004 finds that only twenty percent women work for cash. Among them only 48 percent are able to spend their money on their own, the rest are dependant upon spouses or other family members to take joint decisions on spending. Defining this variable as a measure of empowerment, this analysis investigates correlates of empowerment using logistic regression analysis. The model finds that marital status is the most significant predictor of empowerment in Bangladesh. Unmarried women are six times more likely to be empowered. Secondary education is another major determinant of empowerment, along with the woman’s mobility and decision making scores. The paper recommends strengthening women’s secondary education in Bangladesh and also taking measures to encourage late marriage for women. 2 INTRODUCTION The participation of women in the labour market in Bangladesh has increased in the recent years. One of the major areas where women have found employment has been the garment sector. This industry employs around 10 million persons directly or indirectly, of which ninety percent are women workers. In the 1993-94 BDHS the percentage of women who reported cash income was only 14.4 percent. After the garment industries were set up in Bangladesh...
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...However, parents that are not engaged with communication with their child can have a negative impact. Other examples include not reading to their child or having a space where a child can read without disturbance. These examples will show a student with lower achievement in academics and can affect them with less engagement in class and their living environments may have a negative impact on the student. My experience in regards to socioeconomic status starts with living just below middle class status. My parents didn't have a lot of money. So I considered ourselves bless to have feed every meal and a roof over our head. I never noticed at the Elementary level and the early years of Middle school. But as I got older I noticed that every...
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...The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Vocabulary Development The goal of many primary school teachers is to teach their students to become successful readers. It is the foundation upon which all future learning is based, in fact the federal government mandates primary grade teachers to accomplish this goal through the no child left behind legislation. No child left behind requires that all children read on grade level by third grade. Aside of the legislation mostly all primary grade teachers aspire to teach all children to read. In dealing with the elementary level of education primary school teachers are often nurturing and caring individuals who want the best for their students. Even with the support of the teachers there is usually a portion of the student’s population that has a difficult time to become readers. The reason for this is within the gender, race, and socioeconomic status of the learner. Differences, growth rates and vocabulary manifest themselves early in a child’s life and seem most closely associated with socioeconomic status. For instance studies show that three year old children of professional parents have larger vocabularies than children of parents on welfare. Children in professional homes hear 382 words an hour while children raised in welfare homes hear an average of 167 words an hour. In one month the difference in words heard is 1,100 for professional homes and 500 to welfare homes. A major fact in society today is the school failure of disadvantage...
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...Merriam-Webster dictionary defines socio-economic: of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors. Also they define status: the position or rank of someone or something when compared to others in a society, organization, group, etc... This making the socioeconomic status of a person is “commonly conceptualized as the social standing or class of an individual or group”. (APA web) It is often measured as a combination of education, income and occupation. This often will reveal the persons or groups opportunity to acquire resources. The socioeconomic impact of the business we chose, McMenamins has on the public and its employees is great. For the public it provides a melting pot where many different backgrounds can come together and blend without prejudice for a meal and a craft beer. McMenamins is also active in helping the communities its business is related to such as, the Bagdad Theater and Pub helps with the Annual Hawthorne Holiday Stroll, “dedicated to the ideals of community involvement and making Hawthorne a desirable place to work, shop, and live”. (McM web) Their web page has many more events just like this one. As for the employees, I’ve read reviews of current and former employees some say it’s great place to work, some didn’t like it as much. The biggest complaints were working conditions, low pay and lack of upward mobility. All being equal this is a very tough business where there is a lot of turn over. I also discovered that there’s...
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...validated questionnaires which were designed to elicit information on the hypotheses of study were used. Six senior secondary schools were randomly selected for the study. One hundred and fifty respondents from single parent homes were used for the study. 25 respondents were randomly selected from six schools. Results showed a significant relationship between broken homes and academic achievement of students. It was also discovered that female students from broken homes perform better in thie studies than the male students, moreover, the result showed that low socioeconomic status, also had an adverse effect on the academic performance of children from broken homes. It is recommended that personal social counselling should be rendered to students from broken homes, with a view to counselling students who are experiencing some challenges Keywords: Stable homes, broken homes, Academic achievement, gender and socioeconomic status. Introduction The family is the child's first place of contact with the world. The child...
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...Chapter I The Problem and Review of Related Literature Background of the Study Socioeconomic status plays a big role to the people within the society. It is about the individuals’ position in the social hierarchy wherein the hierarchy includes low, middle and high socioeconomic status. The people who are in the low socioeconomic status are living in a poverty line and they cannot sustain their needs while the people who are in the high socioeconomic status they are living in a good life and can get the things they need and also want. Social classification is built along with many parameters or measure like education, properties, cars, salaries and others by this they can be classified to their respective class in the society (Keene, 2010). Socioeconomic status has a great impact when it comes to relating it about the development of self esteem of the individuals because there are some determinants that may also link to this like the interpersonal, intrapersonal and the socio-cultural factors. These determinants will help in shaping the individuals self-esteem it can either become high or low self esteem depending on how they were developed by these determinants. Self esteem presents the peoples’ typical desire like to be accepted and valued by others. Self esteem can affect every aspect of individual’s lives. Self esteem is a very important factor in the performance of a person which determines whether the person will be satisfied in the job or not and also because it...
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