Sentences with phrase «subset of students who»

Although this Guide addresses English learners with language - related disabilities, it does not address the subset of these students who have the most significant cognitive disabilities.

This explanation would be plausible if a teacher's class were composed of a small subset of students who gained considerable skill during the prior year and a larger subset of students whose previous gains were modest.

A subset of the students who receive the full DESSA will need intensive, one - on - one supports and interventions.

A subset of students who were lower - achieving to begin with showed gains in English over their public school counterparts.

Identified Students are always a subset of the students who would qualify for free or reduced - price school meals if their families completed an application.

Because students approved for free meals without an application are a subset of students who would qualify for free or reduced - price school meals if their families completed an application, this approach is likely to lower the percentage of students considered low - income at all schools.

ADHD experts have suspected for years that a subset of students who misuse stimulants might actually be self - medicating.

«I do think there's probably a subset of students who use [stimulant] drugs without a prescription that probably do have undiagnosed ADHD, and this is one way that they try to deal with [it],» says David Rabiner, PhD, an associate research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, in Durham, N.C.

Not exact matches

The students, Tracy Nelson and Emily Towler, sorted through rosters of SMU economics alums and shortlisted 18 men and women that they thought were working in interesting fields — which purposely excluded stereotypical jobs in banking and finance — and then carried out scripted interviews with a subset of who agreed to be interviewed via Skype to get additional information about their career path and to assess their charisma.

In order to differentiate between self - selected innovators and induced innovators, a random subset of eligible students who did not sign up by the contest deadline were offered a monetary incentive of $ 100 to participate.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to student - level data, we consider the characteristics of the students whose teachers received a layoff notice under the actual system and in our simulation.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to their students, we find that teachers who received a layoff notice are more likely to be teaching poor, non-white, and lower - scoring students than other teachers.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to students, we are able to estimate value - added measures of classroom performance for each teacher in each year.

Adding to the costs and further complicating the picture is the subset of disabled students who need very extensive services, sometimes costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for each such pupil.

Second, Florida's accounts are available to a subset of children with special needs (the specific diagnoses are included in state law), while Arizona's program is available to all children with special needs who would qualify for an Individualized Education Plan or a 504 plan, as well as the several additional categories detailed above.17 (A 504 plan is a plan developed to provide appropriate accommodations for K - 12 students with special needs attending public schools, as detailed in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.)

If a teacher who is very good at teaching one topic is also very good at teaching another — if her value - added measures are similar across topics — we might be comfortable using value - added measures based on a subset of student outcomes, for example, just math or just reading.

If you fail to include a subset of students in your pilot, such as students who qualify for free or reduced price lunch, ESL students, or students already performing above grade level expectations, you won't be able to accurately evaluate your new technology.

In light of these circumstances, and the challenges faced by public schools in ensuring these students are mastering grade - level TEKS, and the evidence as noted in the Katrina study that many of these students may well perform below state standards in their tested areas as compared to their non-affected peers, it is logical that students who are identified by these specific PEIMS codes should be excluded in the 2017 - 2018 accountability subset for public schools.

As for precedent, in 2006 students who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and / or Rita were tested in the state assessment system but their results were removed from the accountability subset, as noted in Appendix I of the 2006 accountability manual.

The study found increased reading achievement for a subset of students (students from schools not in need of improvement and students who were already testing in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the program) but not for students from schools in need of improvement, which the program specifically targeted.

While policymakers may debate the utility of such comparisons, such comparisons are better supported by the available data than are comparisons between teachers who work with very different subsets of students and under different conditions.

The NLSLSASD shows that ELL students who took proficiency assessment tests in each state were highly concentrated in a subset of elementary schools and middle schools.

In addition, the Nancy Grasmick Teacher Award is a subset of this program that provides additional assistance to outstanding teachers who have taught in Maryland for the past two years, either in STEM subject or for a school with many low - income students.

Post-Graduation Goals According to the ABA law graduate employment data, more than half of employed law students choose to work at law firms, and I would assume that only a small subset of the 14.6 % who choose to go into «Business & Industry» are entrepreneurs.

The types of support that is effective include having a campus Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander support office, with support workers who are not necessarily connected to the academic programs but can help with any issues that arise, anything from isolation from family to the financial stresses that come from being a slightly older subset of students and having to support your own families while getting your medical degree.