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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"proportional representation"”.
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Proportional Representation of Students with Disabilities Based on Race, Gender, and Socio-Economic Status in Virginia
… study was to investigate the status of relative representation of male and female, minority, and low socioeconomic students with disabilities served in special education programs across 132 public school divisions within eight Superintendent']s regions in the 2013-14 school year, as published by …
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Proportional Representation of Students with Disabilities based on Race, Gender and Socio-Economic Status in Virginia 2008-2009 and 2013-2014: Has it changed?
… The purpose of this study was to determine the representation of students in special education by category (SWD, ED, SLD, and ID) and by demographic identifier (Ethnicity, Gender, SES) for 2008-2009 and to determine changes in representation between 2008-2009 and 2013-2014 in the 132 school …
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Facets of proportionality
In this thesis, we study proportional representation in three different collective decision-making settings: voting, budgeting, and clustering. In these settings, we develop new axioms and rules to assess and enable outcomes which proportionally reflect the opinions of all agents taking part in the …
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Equitable Representation of Culturally Linguistically Economically Diverse Students in Intellectual Gifted Programs in School Divisions in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… in the Commonwealth of Virginia have equitable representation of Culturally Linguistically Economically Diverse (CLED) students in gifted programs within their schools. Existing literature on CLED students was reviewed. Three years of data (school years 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019) …
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Encouraging exclusivity: The electoral system and campaigning in the 1999 South African Election
… forward that the electoral system--closed-list proportional representation-rewards parties that appeal to a particular race group (or groups) at the expense of others. Parties that adopt a conciliatory tone and attempt a 'catch-all' strategy are punished at the polls. The persistence of this …
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A Preventive Approach to Post-Election Conflicts in Contemporary Africa
… conflicts than are countries that use proportional electoral systems, (H2): In Africa, countries that use majoritarian electoral systems are more likely to experience post-election conflicts than are countries that use mixed electoral systems, and (H3): In Africa, countries that use …
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Effects of Institutional Factors on the Retention of Graduate Students of Color in Schools of Library and Information Science
… science. During the period studied, the proportional representation of White students decreased. For students of color, proportional representation was stable during the same time period. Results revealed a medium effect size of time with productivity rates for both groups declining over …
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The political field and public relations : Competing discourses in New Zealand’s first MMP election
… held in New Zealand under an electoral system of proportional representation. The theoretical framework of the thesis combines Bourdieu’s theory of the political field and Bobbio’s concept of the universe of political discourse. This framework facilitates an analysis of political campaign …
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THE USE OF HEALTH SERVICES IN GHANA: EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES OF GHANAIAN WOMEN
… western region of Ghana. Participants included a proportional representation of educated and non-educated; those with health insurance and those without; women with children and without children. As indicated by Skolnik (2016), “One’s health does depend on access to appropriate health care …
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Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method
… two measures of districting are harmonious with proportional representation ideals. The Brookes Method is an explicit comparison of majoritarian seat outputs with a proportional ideal. Compactness, in the words of Polsby & Popper, "tends to inhibit gerrymandering. By inhibiting gerrymandering, in …
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An assessment of the representativeness of elected and appointed school board members in selected school districts in Virginia and Kentucky
… indicated that on the state level, Kentucky had proportional representation in the race and native born categories. Virginia displayed proportional representation in only one category, native born. As a result of this study, typical school board members in both Virginia and Kentucky were found to …
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Volební formule poměrného zastoupení pod vlivem většinotvorných prvků (na příkladu voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny 1992-2021)
127 Electoral formula of proportional representation under the influence of majority elements (on the example of the Czech parliamentary elections 1992- 2021) Abstract This rigorous thesis deals with legal regulations of proportional electoral systems, focusing on the specific constitutional …
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The Perceptions of Directors of Gifted Education Regarding Division Factors that Contribute to Proportionate or Nearly Proportionate African American Representation in Gifted Education
… proportionate or nearly proportionate to their representation in the general student body in order to determine if there were any commonalities in their selection criteria. The conceptual framework suggests the type of assessments, professional development, multiple criteria, and students' …
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Participatory constitutional reforms vs. realization of equal representation of men and women in the parliaments: a study of Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania
… processes in furthering equal representation of men and women in parliaments. Findings contained in this thesis are informed by primary data from international, regional and national legal frameworks relating to participation in political decision-making processes and are …
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Analýza struktury vzdělávacího obsahu v učebnicích přírodopisu pro základní školy
… Furthermore, it has been shown that the proportional representation of the individual topics across the textbook sets analyzed is relatively consistent. In the structure and order of the teaching topics, we can also observe a recurring trend, especially in the textbooks for the eighth and …
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LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: ACHIEVING PROPORTIONAL GIFTED REPRESENTATION THROUGH OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND NONVERBAL ASSESSMENTS
… of giftedness in elementary students results in proportional demographic representation. Overly stringent or biased gifted identification results in deserving students receiving fewer opportunities-to-learn and exacerbates the excellence gap. My aim in this action research for transformation …
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Using institutions to moderate separatist tendencies : a focus on Iraqi Kurdistan
… for self-rule is fulfilled. Likewise, ensure the representation of Kurds in all levels of government. Second, encourage diversity within the Kurdish political arena. Both components of this strategy can be achieved by adopting a proportional representation electoral formula, selecting a …
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
… party label. In both single-member district and proportional representation systems, equilibrium platforms are shown to diverge substantially, with one party located near the 25th percentile of the voter distribution and the other near the 75th percentile, rather than converge to the median. The …
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