Sentences with phrase «randomly selected groups of students»

Since a lottery was being conducted, it would be possible to compare outcomes for two randomly selected groups of students: those who won the lottery and were offered a scholarship compared to those who applied for a scholarship but did not win the lottery.

Not exact matches

Christakis and Fowler report online today in PLoS ONE that students in the friend group showed signs of the flu between 14 and 69 days before the epidemic peaked in the control group of randomly selected undergraduates.

The effect was to give a randomly selected group of nondisabled students extra time, about the equivalent of time and a half.

The teacher randomly selects one student's work from each group and grades it as representative of the whole group, so that the entire group receives the same grade.

And since the learning - disabled students were not a randomly selected group but a group of students who requested accommodations for their retest, one has no idea whether the findings can be generalized to the disabled population as a whole.

For over four decades, beginning with a science assessment in 1969, the LTT NAEP has tested randomly - selected groups of students age 9, 13, and 17 in several school subjects.

This idea led to a somewhat ill - conceived experiment by Vanderbilt researchers in which a randomly selected group of teachers received bonuses based on the performance of their students.

First, 30 students referring to the counseling center were randomly selected and then they were divided into two groups of 15 each.

Three classrooms of 6th grade students were randomly selected and assigned to three groups.

Of those students who agree to participate, half are randomly selected for the CBITS group; the other half receive regular services provided by the school and information about local community resources.