Participant Selection. Only Participants determined to be eligible shall receive Contracted Services supported by this Contract. Applicants for enrollment shall be recruited by Contractor and/or referred by WDB from the general public of potentially eligible persons, including but not limited to Contractor's student body, as applicable; provided that Contractor shall have primary responsibility for all such recruitment. Contractor shall offer to each applicant an equal opportunity for enrollment, and shall not discriminate against any applicant in violation of any Federal or State law related to equal opportunity, provided that Contractor shall comply with all of the following criteria in its enrollment of Participants: (a) each Participant shall be enrolled as permitted under WIOA Section 129(c)(5); and (b) each Participant's enrollment shall comply with applicable State rules and regulations and with WDB and County requirements; (c) WDB has certified eligibility and approved enrollment; and (d) cumulative Participant enrollments shall at the end of each calendar quarter comply with the requirements of Contractor's Statement of Work and Work Activity Schedule. In its recruitment, eligibility determination and enrollment of Participants, Contractor shall at all times comply with WDB policies and procedures, including without limitation the use and timely submittal of reports, documents and/or forms issued by WDB, if any. Documentation of Contractor's Participant recruitment, issuance and receipt of applications, and compliance with these enrollment criteria shall be maintained by Contractor in the manner specified by WDB from time to time.
Participant Selection. Final selection will be made by the State Bar Chief or Director receiving the T&D Assignment. Subsequent to the interview and selection process, selected Employees’ Directors will be asked to identify the impact of their Employees’ participation in a T&D Assignment in another Department. If participation will jeopardize service to the public, a selected Employee’s participation may be postponed or cancelled. Good faith efforts will be made to provide all selected Employees a T&D Assignment beginning within 12 months of the initial selection date. Assignment Plan For AWP assignments, an assignment plan will be developed by the Chief, Director or designee from the Department or Office seeking the T& D Assignment outlining start and end dates, specific tasks to be completed, skills to be developed, and times during the business day required of the participant. For V and LOA assignments, the duties of the participant will align with the job description of the classification to which he or she will be assigned.
Participant Selection. In the case of school directors (i.e. school principal), the entire population was tested (i.e. each director was asked to fill the questionnaires). If the director was not available, the assistant director or other high-ranking school official was tested. For teachers, a non-probabilistic sampling strategy was used. Two second grade teachers were tested at each school. If a second grade teacher did not want to participate in the study, other teachers from grades 1 through 6 were asked to participate. Finally, children were randomly selected from all second grade classrooms in all 400 schools (simple randomization). Six children were tested at each school. Instruments Sociodemographic questionnaire for children. The sociodemographic questionnaire for children gathered basic data on age, handedness, previous diagnosis of a disability and support services received for the disability. In addition, home literacy environment was assessed. The LEER Reading Assessment Battery. The USAID-Leer reading assessment battery was created using international standards for measuring reading acquisition and automaticity (USAID, 2011). We identified the following key constructs: general subcomponents of learning (i.e. working memory and oral comprehension), basic sub-components of reading (i.e. phonological awareness, letter knowledge), decoding skills (correct words/pseudowords per minute), and advanced reading skills (fluency and reading comprehension). These subcomponents are standards used internationally in many standardized tests and in USAID reading programs, which often use EGRAs (Early Grade Reading Assessments) to measure reading. For working memory, the Word and Pseudoword Repetition Protocol (Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx, 2002) was used. This test entailed the immediate repetition of isolated words and pseudowords. The test is able to give us a broad or simple assessment of children’s ability to hold phonological information for a very short period of time. The oral comprehension task consisted of an enumerator reading aloud 3 stories and then asking children 5 literal questions about each story. The stories ensured a lack of gender bias, portraying both girls and boys and avoiding stereotyped gender roles within the story line. Stories had less than 70 words according to well-known recommended guidelines (USAID, 2009). In order to measure phonological awareness, we adapted the guideline’s recommended task, comprised of two components. The first component c...
Participant Selection. The disputing Participants shall mutually agree to select a mediator who is impartial, has experience in construction project dispute mediation, 1994797v4 FINAL 3/5/07 C-3 1994797v4 FINAL 3/5/07 D-1 and is knowledgeable regarding the design and construction of electric utility transmission projects ("Mediator"). The Mediator does not have the authority to impose a settlement upon the parties, but will attempt to help the parties reach a satisfactory resolution of their dispute.
Participant Selection. We shall test the net in normal use in our huts. You and other volunteers will sleep under the net from 7 pm to 6 am from Monday to Friday. We can tell if the net is working by looking for dead mosquitoes in the hut in the morning. This evaluation will continue for seven weeks. We shall be regularly changing the nets. Sometimes the net will have been left unwashed, sometimes it will have been washed many times and sometimes nets will have been collected from the community. In this way we can work out if the nets are still working. We are looking for local village volunteers to participate in the study. As a local you will have been exposed to biting by these mosquitoes. We are wanting to recruit adult males or females who are able to understand the purpose of the study. The persons have to be responsible and we would like them to help us collect the mosquitoes from the huts in the morning. We are looking for individuals who are able in principle to be available for the entire weeks of the study. You have to be willing to stay in the huts all night long. During the study you would be expected to sleep away from their families for a full 3 months. If there are more suitable volunteers than positions, we shall select individuals by lot.
Participant Selection. The sampling frame consisted of the respondents of Surinamese, Moroccan, Turkish and Dutch background, with a high score on the SEI-HS who had given the Public Health Services written consent to re-contact (Table 1). Respondents from the city of Rotterdam could not be included as permission had not been requested. To reflect the variability in gender, age and neighbourhood across the four research groups, in total 50 cases were selected at random from the different strata. In case of non-response a replacement was selected as similar as possible to the original case.
Participant Selection. Selection criteria of the pilots' participants and consequences for related ethical and data protection aspects. The selection criteria are key elements to make sure ethical and data protection measures will be adequate. In the CareWell project, participants in pilots will receive correct information and accurate explanations about the study design, and the criteria for
Participant Selection. The Careerworks Case Managers will be responsible for screening and selecting eligible participants and completing the Post Employment Career Advancement Referral Form This form will also be used to certify participant eligibility, provide updated contact information and to identify the assigned Careerworks Case Manager. Additional information related to work history and employment status may be forwarded to the CONTRACTOR. The Careerworks Case Manager will complete a referral as quickly as possible after learning about a participant’s job offer or placement. The Careerworks Case Manager will also make an effort to explain to the participant, the project services and expectations before a project Employment Specialist is assigned. All participants referred by Careerworks are to be enrolled and served by the CONTRACTOR, unless the referral is rescinded by mutual agreement between Careerworks and the CONTRACTOR. Employment Specialists hired by the CONTRACTOR are encouraged to participate or assist with Career Center group activities.
Participant Selection. Participants under this Sub-Plan shall be selected by the Committee in its sole discretion as provided in Section 4.2 of the Plan.
Participant Selection. Qualitative case studies typically employ a non-probability sampling strategy called “purposeful sampling” (Xxxxxx, 2015) or “criterion-based sampling” (Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx, 1984). These strategies allow for the deliberate selection of participants with special experiences, competencies, or unique insights that can facilitate the aims of the research. The criteria for a qualified participant in this study was as follows: a) self identified as African American, b) born after 1980, c) taught at the elementary school level at the time of the study, d) taught for no more than 8 years at the time of the study, e) and worked in a public school in the major metropolitan district that was sampled for the study. Once permission was granted from both Emory University and the school districts’ Institutional Review Board, respectively, elementary school principals and assistant principals in the district were contacted via email and/or in person and asked to engage in a process of “community nomination” (Xxxxxx, 1991). The “community nomination” method of sampling is “an attempt to gain an emic perspective, an insider’s view” of what is valued by a particular school or community (Xxxxxx, 1991, p. 239). Administrators who responded to the initial request were asked to nominate a novice African American teacher at their school that they described as “exemplary.” They were also asked to provide correspondence information for a representative of the Parent Teacher Association. The PTA representatives indicated their acceptance of the nominee after the administrator selected one teacher. Once nominations were secured, the administrators provided the direct contact information of the nominated teacher. The first four teachers who were nominated were contacted via email to request a time and date for an initial face-to-face meeting (See Appendix B: Participant Table). The initial meeting served three purposes: (1) to provide the prospective participants with more information about the study, (2) to allow prospective participants time to ask specific questions about the study, and (3) to establish rapport. In accordance with Institutional Review Board policies and procedures, all participants were assured of the confidentiality of their participation and responses during our initial meeting. Each participant selected pseudonyms to replace their names and any of their affiliated institutions (e.g. school, teacher preparation site) to ensure their anonymity. As the primary researc...
