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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Placement decisions"”.
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Teachers' Perceptions of Factors Used in Placement Decisions
… of teachers regarding the educational placement of children with ASD are a critical topic of study, since teachers are primarily responsible for the implementation of inclusion (Soodak, Podell, & Lehman, 1998). While there is a substantial research base that has examined the attitudes …
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Foster Care Placement Decisions: Is Race a Factor
… and infancy were the strongest predictors of the placement decision. This document includes literature reviews of factors that affect the placement decision, and race and child welfare.
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The Effect of Family Support Service Availability on Child Placement Decisions
The placement decision in child welfare has long been considered a critical far-reaching decision. The decision impacts children and families, the allocation of resources within the service system, and often raises legal issues of equity. Previous studies examining the placement of children have …
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SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS' PERCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT PRACTICES AND EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT DECISIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTINGS
… functioning and what is the educational placement in which they received special education services. In this study, a national sample of school psychologists (n=119) who practice in early childhood settings was surveyed with regard to their assessment and educational placement practices. …
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In Whose Best Interest? Using an Experimental Vignette to Assess Factors Influencing Placement Decisions in Child Welfare
… clinical vignettes to analyze child welfare placement decisions (Briar, 1963; Britner & Mossler, 2002; Donnelly, 1980; Drury-Hudson, 1999; Gold, et al., 2001; Taylor, 2006), the present study employs an experimental format to assess the relative importance that social workers place on …
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Pupil socioeconomic status, pupil race, and racial composition of the school district as components of the special education placement decision
… to alleviate subjectivity in special education placement decisions, Congress mandated that such decisions be made by a multidisciplinary team (P.L. 94-142). Minority students are consistently overrepresented in special education classes (Mercer, 1973; Tucker, 1980; Keyes, 1981). The research …
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Interaction between the cattle feeding sector and the live cattle futures market: implications to the stability of short-run cash slaughter cattle prices
… research is to explore the simultaneity between placement decisions made in the cattle feeding sector and the price discovery process for distant contracts within the live cattle futures market. The efficiency of these processes will have implications to variability in supplies and thus, cash …
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The Use of Criteria for Decision Making in Child Placement Situations
… to study the making of the protective custody placement decision concerning a child(ren) involved in an abuse or neglect situation. Two major research questions were addressed. They were: (1) What criteria do child protective service workers use to make protective custody decisions in abuse and …
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Charting a Path to Success: How Alternative Methods of Mathematics Placement Impact the Academic Success of Community College Students
Results indicated that an institutional placement policy prescribing placement by an examination of multiple measures consisting of placement test score and self-reported high school preparation resulted in student placement into higher-level mathematics courses with equal academic success when …
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Operating system support for warehouse-scale computing
… end-to-end access control mechanisms, and work placement ignores the effects of hardware heterogeneity and workload interference. In this dissertation, I argue that uniform, clean-slate operating system (OS) abstractions designed to support distributed systems can make data centres more …
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Parents' satisfaction with the education of their child with autism
… considerable concern to parents regarding school placement decisions, the levels of classroom support provided, and the attitudes and behaviors of teachers. This study examined parent's satisfaction with the education of their child with autism. Thirty-two parents of children with autism completed …
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A closer look at self-image in male foster care adolescents
… from foster care history included number of placements and length of time at the current placement. The individual background characteristics included were race, educational achievement and age. Foster care youth had lower family self-image and emotional health and higher social self-image …
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WISC-III Performance Patterning Differences Between Native American and Caucasian Children
… leads to questions regarding appropriate placement issues. Many clinicians are unfamiliar with these unique cultural differences. Some studies suggest the possibility of a “Native American Pattern” on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children (McShane & Plas, 1982). Mishra (1982) also …
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Effect of special education funding models in Illinois on district placement practice
… the least restrictive environment can mean placement in a self-contained setting or even a separate school. The costs associated with self-contained settings can be high, and school districts rely on federal and state reimbursements to offset expenses. The structure of these special …
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Implicit Bias And Least Restrictive Environment: Perceptions Of Certified Educators
… educators related to implicit bias and student placement. The theory of intersectionality suggests that implicit bias is present within all individuals (Crenshaw, 2017). Thus, there is a natural propensity for implicit bias, specific to ability, among school personnel. The problem to be …
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Parents' Views of and Participation in the Special Education Process
… specifically those that make eligibility and placement decisions guaranteed by The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA ’97). The purpose of this study was to understand how parents view the special education process and their participation from their child’s …
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Whiteness: influence, decision-making, and cultural-linguistic disproportionality in special education placements
… teachers and the processes that lead to these placements. Few studies have examined how the perspectives of child study team (CST) members contribute to placements in special education. CSTs are involved in interventions, referrals, evaluations, and placement decisions. The purpose of this …
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Contingency fees and incentives in commercial lines insurance
… individual agents working at the broker make placement decisions, and only some agents have an incentive to respond to this compensation. Contingency fees are found to distort sales toward insurers that have contracts in effect at the broker. Moreover, agents appear to respond to contractual …
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Relationship of psychological well-being and activities of daily living in older adults following hospitalization: A secondary analysis
… severity of disabling chronic diseases, to plan placement decisions, to determine eligibility for long-term care services, to determine benefits, and to establish new social policies, as well as to predict admission to a nursing home, use of paid home care, use of hospital and physician services, …
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The New Face of Bilingual Education: Is It Worth the Battle? One School's Struggle
… kept a journal of the effect the administrative decisions had on day-to-day instruction, outlining the implications for my classroom practice and student placement decisions. My journal also reflected on some of the school-wide practices concerning ELL’s and focused in on the parents’ roles in …
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