Sentences with phrase «identification rates»

Even if schools treated all students the same, special education identification rates would likely differ across racial and ethnic groups.

Few if any experts would argue that existing identification practices are ideal, or that identification rates reflect true prevalence of need.

Beyond achievement and demographics, researchers have found that identification rates vary with school finance environments [14] and state accountability frameworks.

In many schools, the latter is the place to stick the kids who have been failed by the former — a major cause of the sky - high special - education - identification rates in many states and districts.

Searched for, and successfully collected evidence, such as fingerprints, drugs, and drug paraphernalia using investigative equipment resulting in the confiscation of all Schedule type I - V controlled substances resulting in the 100 % positive identification rate of illicit substances.

It is important to acknowledge that there is significant variation in identification rates across the nation, with Massachusetts topping out at 16.7 % and Colorado maintaining 10.53 %, and there is also notable subjectivity in how students are identified as eligible to receive special education and related services.

And I can't help but wonder whether the «New Normal» (most states finding resources much more limited) will drive down identification rates at a fast pace.

identification rates for unlinked deaths were assumed to be the same as those for linked deaths;

Until that time, there are some good examples of identification techniques of having trained observers, a parent advocate and continuing to promote concussion education that we know will increase identification rates.»

When the results were compared with studies in the literature using standard radiocolloid tracers the researchers found that the SN biopsy using tilmanocept provided a high identification rate and low false negative rate for SNs, thus facilitating accurate prediction of the spread of the cancer.

«Identification rates exceed those currently obtained with automatic systems,» he said.

In a 2002 National Research Council study, Donovan and Cross reviewed the literature and data on differences in special education participation by disability and racial / ethnic groups and cautioned against using unadjusted aggregate group - level identification rates to guide public policy.

For example, the preamble to the disproportionality regulations notes that unequal autism identification rates across groups may reflect disparities in access to medical care, suggesting that the district offer early developmental screenings.

The authors examine the literature on potential sources of disproportionate identification rates — including test bias, poverty, special education processes, inequity in general education, issues of behavior management, and cultural sensitivity — and conclude that no single simple explanation exists.

Notably, many WCPSS schools had a significantly low overall AIG identification rate, and minority groups and students from high poverty areas were underrepresented in the overall total of identified AIG students.

I argue against fixed thresholds for how much variance states should tolerate in districts» special education identification rates across racial and ethnic groups, and for comprehensive social policies to help address disparities in children's well being.

I can't help but wonder whether the «New Normal» (most states finding resources much more limited) will drive down identification rates at a fast pace.

Each day, she tracks such measures as the customer - identification rate, percentage of households shopping that week, how many new customers the store is retaining, and markdowns as a percentage of sales.

«The 20th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the IDEA,» which was released to the public and the press last week, documents continuing incremental increases in the identification rates of students and preschoolers with disabilities.

The identification rate was higher when students were in MPS both because many students who switched from MPCP to MPS received special education designations in MPS and because many students with special education designations in MPS shed them when they enrolled in MPCP schools.

In other words, the identification rate in the public schools appears to be 60 percent higher (the 5.5 percent increment divided by 9.1 percent) than in the private schools.

So, as anticipated, the false - identification rate is 50 percent.

22/11/2013: One additional table has been added to Chapter 3: Data linkage to derive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths identification rates that displays the identification rates by the two remoteness area groupings

identification rates were assumed to apply uniformly across sex and within each broad age group;

20/12/2013: Appendix 1: Confidence Intervals has been updated with final confidence intervals for identification rates.