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Counts, Jennifer; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Whitford, Denise K. – NASSP Bulletin, 2018
The multidimensional issue of the representation of diverse students in special education has been a persistent and challenging concern for decades. Overwhelmingly, research outlining racial and ethnic disproportionality data have historically demonstrated stability in the overrepresentation of students of color in special education. However, the…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, English Language Learners
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Dias, Teresa Galvão; Borges, José – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The problem of assigning students to teams can be described as maximising their profiles diversity within teams while minimising the differences among teams. This problem is commonly known as the maximally diverse grouping problem and it is usually formulated as maximising the sum of the pairwise distances among students within teams. We propose…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Heterogeneous Grouping, Engineering Education, Mathematics
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Zedadra, Amina; Lafifi, Yacine; Zedadra, Ouarda – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
This paper presents a new approach of learners grouping in collaborative learning systems. This grouping process is based on traces left by learners. The goal is the circular dynamic grouping to achieve collaborative projects. The proposed approach consists of two main algorithms: (1) the circular grouping algorithm and (2) the dynamic grouping…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Animals, Animal Behavior, Homogeneous Grouping
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2016
On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, legislation to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). ESSA replaces the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the previous version of ESEA, and also supersedes the ESEA waivers created by the U.S. Department of Education to provide states…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability