Sentences with phrase «other group of students»

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

NCLB supporters argue that the law had its virtues: Its insistence on looking at how all subgroups of students performed on standardized tests forced schools to pay attention to minorities and other groups of students traditionally ignored.

When evaluating the size of this «overprediction» for learning - disabled males, the majority panel noted that it was smaller than the overprediction for other groups of students, such as African - American males.

Some civil rights organizations say lumping together different types of students, such as English - language learners and students in special education, makes it much tougher to see how individual groups are progressing relative to other groups of students and the student population as a whole.

The other group of students forms a circle inside the first circle; each student faces one of the students in the first group.

Of course we can not rule out the possibility that the two groups differed on other, unmeasured variables, given that participating students consented to be in our experiment, which involved attending a class taught during the day, and the other group of students did not opt to take part.

Our job is to ensure that our Muslim students feel as welcomed as every other group of students.

«Plaintiffs failed to show that the statutes themselves make any certain group of students more likely to be taught by ineffective teachers than any other group of students... The court's job is merely to determine whether the statutes are constitutional, not if they are «a good idea.

English learners are the least likely to graduate from high school when compared to other groups of students.

The other group of students that Jan's team finds difficult to plan for are the students who skip classes or full days.

A year later, Aragon's fourth - graders achieved at the 97th percentile in math, showing greater improvement than any other group of students in the state.

[19] Teachers whose classes have both students with and without disabilities will need to choose one or the other type of instruction, and — depending on the choice — they might be less effective with one or the other group of students.

Charters students also demonstrated much less growth in advanced scores of 5th graders than all other groups of students, including those in traditional urban public schools.

(Side note Heroine and other drugs are a scourge among the other group of students from wealthy families.)