Sentences with phrase «selected group of students who»

The first step in the Secondary Academy for Success (SAS) plan was a program that included a series of skill - building and planning workshops for a self - selected group of students who were interested in changing their school.

In conducting this analysis, we also needed to account for the fact that the students who were held back were a select group of students who could differ in important ways from the promoted students.

Not exact matches

The East Bay Tigers is a group of selected student - athletes who want to play basketball at its highest level on the national AAU circuit.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

The cry of the thunder being stolen you hear is from the National Board of Review, the anonymous «select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students» who host a big celebrity awards party each year.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says former HGSE associate professor Hunter Gehlbach (now at University of California Santa Barbara).

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach.

The student who selected the paper with the word «Rep» (short for representative) on it will sit still while the other members of the group are reading.

More recently, we drew heavily on those experiences to create Opportunity by Design, an initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York that is enabling a select group of urban districts to design new secondary schools that serve all students, particularly those who are underprepared and need to accelerate and recuperate their learning.

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.

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.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

Because these charters held a lottery to select their students, the research team could compare the achievement of applicants who were admitted with a similar group who remained in a traditional public school.

The following chart (some of which I've published before) indicates that schools cream off a select group of students — students who end up doing statistically better on standardized test scores.

The treatment group was comprised of 57 students from nine elementary schools who were selected for Reading Recovery instruction in the first week of school.

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) compared test scores for two groups of students: students who, through a lottery process, were selected to receive vouchers, and students who applied for yet didn't receive them.

Melcher: There are groups of people in Wisconsin who only want «select» students to receive a quality education so these «select» students can maintain the top 1 percent status.

Students who are below proficiency at the start of the year, but not the most remedial, are requested to be part of the selected group.

Siblings of pupils who are actively enrolled at WSD are given preference in the lottery.In accordance with Utah State law, the WSD lottery selects students at random throughout the lottery season with preference at each lottery given to designated groups.

While Cane has a point, some would counter that charters enjoy certain advantages that high - poverty DCPS schools don't: for example, a self - selected group of students that is more likely to be motivated, and the option of denying admission to students who arrive midyear.

As such, many schools and districts start small with a select group of teachers and students who test the program to make sure it is effectively helping students succeed.

The IES researchers compared test scores for two groups of students: students who, through a lottery process, were selected to receive vouchers, and students who applied for yet didn't receive them.

A select group of outstanding entering JD students are chosen each year as Mordecai Scholars — students who receive full tuition financial assistance through the Law School's high - merit scholarship program.

Participants who role - played as delegates were given briefing statements to prepare ahead of time, and representatives were selected by the students to give plenary statements on behalf of the regional blocs and interest groups.

They consequently advocate development of curricula that enable transnational specialization by a select group of law students who wish to concentrate on global legal questions.30

Fox, a lawyer who is also the deputy grand chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, says that, in the aftermath of EagleWoman's resignation, not enough has been done to build relationships with Indigenous groups in selecting EagleWoman's replacement and improving the situation for students at the school.

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.