Sentences with phrase «small numbers of students with»

Having small numbers of students with useable test scores can also add to random errors.

In particular, special education teachers, who often teach small classes of students with the most severe disabilities, may have very small numbers of students with which to calculate value - added; they may even have fewer than the minimum required by the state.

It's probably easier for the teachers who have a small number of students with similar issues who are just building skills - not preparing for exams - rather than trying to suit hundreds of students.

The small number of students with «long - standing truancy problems» in this new program will be carefully followed.

A small number of students with missing test scores or other data were also excluded.

Finally, in regard to whether any students with IEPs should be excused from screening, there are a very small number of students with severe and profound disabilities who will not be functionally able to complete the screening assessments.

Except for a very small number of students with severe and profound disabilities, all students should participate in universal benchmark screening so that teachers can learn each student's current skills in relation to grade level expectations.

In this case, the average is skewed higher by the small number of students with significant levels of debt.

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While the number of students from India is small by comparison, the increase has been remarkable, with a rise of more than four-fold in just three years.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

The picture for India is almost the opposite, with a growing population of students pursuing graduate degrees and a small, stable number obtaining undergraduate degrees.

It was a major shift for me to go from a laboratory with a large army of postdocs and students to a unit consisting of a small number of software developers and students.

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

With small class sizes and close contact between students and faculty, an increasing number of new private universities are attracting students from Germany and elsewhere.

This coupled with an astounding number of college students condensed into such a relatively small area, online dating offers Bean Town singles a place to easily weed through the numerous potential daters.

The battle scenes are appropriately spectacular, with Hogwarts under attack from an army of Death Eaters, Dementors, giants and beasties and defended by a small and dwindling number of students and teachers.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

The University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill runs its own service - oriented gap program, offered with financial assistance to a small number of its incoming students who wouldn't otherwise be able fund such a year.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

States can vet vendors, making them start slow, on a trial basis, with small numbers of students to ultimately prove themselves worthy of making it onto a state - approved vendor list.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

Media reports often emphasize the growth in students with autism but their numbers remain very small, less than 0.3 percent of enrollment.

With a smaller number of students at any one time, teachers can focus on pushing the ratio of higher order thinking through Socratic seminars and other targeted strategies of instruction only possible in a small group setting.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

Even with a sample this large, the number of students attending other religious and secular private schools is still quite small (80 and 102 cases, respectively).

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

I started creating handouts with tips for a number of topics, things like managing routines and homework, finding out about your students, teaching large and small groups, setting up individualized prescriptive instruction, learning about the school community, even preparing for guest speakers and field trips.

And then, back inside the school again, class formation, designing learning programs with small numbers of students across a wide range of grade bands or year levels.

With the growing number of diverse students needing specialized small - group or individualized instruction, you may feel overwhelmed about what strategies to implement to reach every student.

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

The student is always presented with the graduation rates of his nearest colleges, his state's flagship public university, other in - state selective colleges, and a small number of out - of state selective colleges.

If one uses student gains or losses as a general measure, then those who teach the neediest children — English - language learners, troubled students, autistic students — will see the smallest gains, and teachers will have an incentive to avoid districts and classes with large numbers of the neediest students.

You may share these pages with your students at individual computer stations or by assigning small groups to share a number of computers; by means of computer - projected images displayed to the whole class; or by printing out the images and distributing copies of them to students.

With an enrollment of only 10 students, McGowan says they purposely keep the number small so students can focus intensely on their own research and receive in - depth feedback from classmates.

The larger number of students in a smaller space may also create some additional challenges with the teacher's movement about the classroom and the cramped conditions.

Those state - run schools are closed today, the immigrants to the United States say, and have been replaced by schools with a new agenda — one that teaches a small number of students a fundamentalist version of Islam.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

«I was talking to another parent that I worked with at that time regarding high schools and I was telling her my concerns with (public schools) and Dante was always in a school that had smaller classes and not a large number of students enrolled,» explained Hamilton.

Teachers set expectations with students in advance about a small number of behaviors they will be looking for and refer to.

Students investigate important math concepts with colorful cubes that make visual learning fun and interactive FEATURES 10 Cubes that come in 10 different colors Easy for small hands to connect and twist apart Model math concepts, explore cubes and squares of numbers, investigate patterns, and place value INCLUDES 100 Snap Cubes

Our research shows that while a small number of schools were able to avoid the worst effects of recent budget cuts, belts continued to tighten at schools with more economically disadvantaged students.

Reorganizing the schools into a number of self - contained small learning communities or academies helps teachers learn each of their students» names, keep the hallways clear and form stronger bonds with students and other teachers.

Even as it advocated more inclusiveness for students with disabilities, the report also noted that «once most schools have become Opportunity Schools, IPS may continue to operate a small number of schools and provide special education on those campuses.»

Because the oTPD program also focused on teacher inquiry and students with learning disabilities, teachers were frequently required to interview a small number of struggling students after they engaged with the PD activities.

It's administered to a random sample of students with each student assigned only a small number of the questions, because the goal is to get a snapshot of student progress based on where they live and their racial and socio - economic backgrounds.

The study also found schools that serve many current and former English learner students tended to offer fewer advanced courses compared with schools that serve only a small number of English learner students — even when holding constant characteristics such as size and students» performance on state assessments.

Using Cognitive Labs - Video Links (2018) These 4 video segments were developed in conjunction with the NH PACE project to illustrate how to pilot a new performance assessment with a small number of students before using it school or district wide.

Students held small signs with numbers on them in front of their faces to represent that they are individuals, not a percentage or number.

Small schools enable teachers to work more closely with a smaller number of students.