Sentences with phrase «whole cohort»

Ofsted told its inspectors earlier this month to crack down on schools found to be gaming the system — which included entering whole cohorts of pupils into subjects with over-lapping content.

Should the DfE explore introducing more sample assessment instead of whole cohort assessment?

After selection, fellowship teams have access to evidenced - based resources and professional development through coaching and whole cohort convenings, virtually and in - person.

The ATL Section of the National Education Union believes that whole cohort testing of children for school accountability should not take place in Primary Schools.

Last week, Schools Week reported that the number of schools that had had whole cohorts of key stage 2 results annulled had increased sixfold from 2012 to 2013.

«It makes the whole cohort less valuable.»

Now with a whole cohort of private sector leaders --» the design vanguard,» he calls it — and a new generation of non-profit design agencies that are specifically created for purpose and impact, Cary argues that with enough investment, that can all change.

And yet if you want to reduce the rates of sexually transmitted disease or the prevalence of teenage pregnancy across the country as a whole, then you will be interested in trying to cut the odds for a whole cohort of youngsters.

«We've had a whole cohort of young adults and children affected by binge drinking and turning up to hospital in rising numbers with alcohol - related illnesses,» he said, before saying supermarkets» «deep discounting» and «loss - leading» still needed to be tackled.

JFK pardoned basically the whole cohort of people convicted under the Narcotics Act of 1956, basically nullifying and overturning the law passed by Congress.

It's also the kind of bold policy stroke that would command national attention, with Cuomo potentially starring as the governor who triggered the removal of a whole cohort of aging highways that blighted central cities for 60 years.

In their study, Ginther et al., combined African - American (55 %) and non-American black scientists (45 %), comparing their success rate with the whole cohort of R01 applicants.

The whole cohort, everyone apart from me.

There was no significant difference in the cardiovascular risk profile between the 66 men and the whole cohort at the age of 50 y (data not shown).

«You have this whole cohort of Boomers with a history of higher levels of alcohol and drug use, and perhaps they are bringing this with them into retirement,» he says.

In this fashion, we can calculate weighted averages of net pension wealth for winners, losers, and the whole cohort of 25 - year - old entrants.

The table at the bottom of Chart 1 shows the group breakdown and we can clearly see that while the whole cohort success increased by a factor of three, low SES students and minority students rates of success jumped by factors of five and six — double the rate of the whole cohort.

Sometimes it's done with a whole cohort of teachers working within a grade level.

As this will be there third year that some subjects have not met the government's target number needed to enter training, as identified by the DfE's Teacher Supply Model, the shortfall will extent to the loss of a whole cohort of trainees in subject such as design and technology, business studies and physics over the three year period.

What that means is that out of the whole cohort of Year 12 students undertaking Year 12 at the time, in terms of Physics, for example, around 27 per cent of students are choosing Physics and 21 per cent are male and 5.9 per cent are female.

At other times, it's done with a whole cohort of teachers working within a grade level.

Muijs said that when looking at pupil outcomes — «the ultimate arbiter of successful education reform» — it's important to take into account of the time it takes for a whole cohort to go through a reformed school before taking national examinations.

The hope is that these errors will cancel out when looking at whole cohorts.

«Would we have spotted occasional human error, if you take it in the context of the annual cycle of assessment that's year on year for the whole cohort?

It negatively affected the whole cohort because it caused everybody to be sad.

The whole cohort was gathered in a meeting hall where our headmaster presented the news.

They tested how examiners react when told they are re-marking papers, and found they are more generous than when first marking them as part of the whole cohort.

«In a few schools, large proportions of students, or even the whole cohort, were entered for BTEC science, with an associated rise in GCSE - equivalence point scores for the schools,» the report said.

But of course the curriculum could be modified to be appropriate for the whole cohort.

the tagging of almost all breeding individuals and of four whole cohorts of pups, that will permit the study of life histories of males and females in the long term

According to the ARDN's website, rural Alberta is experiencing a greying of the bar, where «a whole cohort of aging lawyers will soon exit the profession.»

«A whole cohort of lawyers in rural Alberta will be retiring over the next decade and the ARDN is thrilled to see this unique project come to fruition with sponsorship from the UofC Faculty of Law and the CBA - Alberta Branch,» explains Roch Labelle, Project Manager of Alberta Rural Law Opportunities (ARLO), an ARDN initiative.

In fact, a whole cohort of rural Alberta lawyers will soon retire and the communities they have served throughout their careers will continue to need legal services.

«We have a whole cohort of lawyers who are approaching retirement,» says Coxworthy.

If the latter, then should this be for the whole cohort of claimants or each firm's cohort of claimants (there are quite often several firms representing the claimant cohort)?

recommends choosing one year group from the stage and making it a whole cohort event e.g. Years 2, 4 and 6.

Secondary outcomes also improved across the whole cohort, but again with no significant difference in improvement between the groups.

As with any longitudinal study, data were not complete on exposures, outcomes, and confounders for the whole cohort.