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Students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are at a greatly increased risk of poor academic outcomes. Understanding the factors that influence their attainment is a crucial first step towards developing more effective provision. In the current study we present a multi-level, natural variation analysis which highlights important determinants at school and individual levels in two core academic subjects (English and Maths) using a nationally representative sample of over 15,000 students with SEND attending more than 400 schools across England. We found that at the school level, inclusivity, attainment, free school meal (FSM) eligibility, behaviour (in primary schools) and linguistic diversity (secondary schools), and at the student level, age, sex, FSM eligibility, SEND provision, SEND primary need, attendance, behaviour and positive relationships each contributed to the distribution of academic attainment. Implications of these findings are discussed and study limitations are noted.
A Unidirectional Transition Fusion for Coloured Petri Nets and its Implementation for the CPNTools
2004
Abstract. Petri nets have been frequently extended with object-oriented concepts. This has originated several flavours of object-oriented nets, often with no clear connection to the common Petri net semantics. This paper informally presents a unidirectional transition fusion for coloured Petri nets named synchrony groups, together with a filter tool, for the CPNTools, allowing the translation from hierarchical coloured Petri nets with synchrony groups to hierarchical coloured Petri nets without synchrony groups.
Non-Renegable Selective Acknowledgments (NR-SACKs) for MPTCP
We introduce Non-Renegable Selective Acknowledgments (NR-SACKs) to MPTCP, and investigate their impact in situations where an MPTCP receiver never discards received out-of-order data from the MPTCP receive buffer (i.e., never renegs). NR-SACKs not only allow an MPTCP receiver to report the reception of out-of-order data, but also allow an MPTCP sender to free reported out-of-order data in the MPTCP send buffer sooner than the advance of the MPTCP level cumulative acknowledgement (DATA ACK). We implemented NR-SACKs in the Linux kernel. Experiments show that (i) the MPTCP data transfers with NR-SACKs never perform worse than those without NR-SACKs, and (ii) NR-SACKs improve throughput in MPTCP when the total congestion window (cwnd) of all subflows is greater than the MPTCP send buffer size (i.e., the send buffer size is the bottleneck).
Did Send-Down Experience Benefit Youth?
A Reevaluation of the Social …, 2006
During China's Cultural Revolution, a large proportion of urban youth were forced to go to the countryside as a result of the state's "send-down" policy. Past research has been ambivalent about the long-term social consequences for the Chinese youth who experienced send-down. Some scholars have suggested that the send-down experience may have yielded beneficial effects. To test this claim, we analyze data from the Survey of Family Life in Urban China, which we conducted in three large cities in 1999. Questions available in this data set allow us to ascertain the send-down experience of both the respondent and a sibling and educational attainment at the times of send-down and return. Our analyses of the new data show that the send-down experience does not seem to have benefited the affected Chinese youth. Differences in social outcomes between those who experienced send-down and those who did not are either non-existent or spurious due to other social processes.
Learning to trust in indefinitely repeated games
2006
Although it is well known that trust and trustworthiness (ie, the fulfillment of trust) are important behaviors for the fulfillment of incomplete contracts, less is known about how the economic environment influences them. In this paper we design an experiment to examine how exogenously determined (stochastic) past relationship lengths affect trust and trustworthiness in new relationships.
Interactive apps delivered on touch-screen tablets can be effective at supporting the acquisition of basic skills in mainstream primary school children. This technology may also be beneficial for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) as it can promote high levels of engagement with the learning task and an inclusive learning environment. However, few studies have measured extent of learning for SEND pupils when using interactive apps, so it has yet to be determined if this technology is effective at raising attainment for these pupils. We report the first observational study of a group of 33 pupils with SEND from two primary schools in Malawi that are implementing a new digital technology intervention which uses touch-screen tablets to deliver interactive apps designed to teach basic mathematical skills. The apps contain topics that align to the national curriculum. To assess learning gains, rate of progress (minutes per topic) for each pupil was determined by calculating the average time taken to complete a topic. Progress rate was then correlated with teacher ratings of extent of disability and independent ratings of pupil engagement with the apps. Results showed SEND pupils could interact with the apps and all pupils passed at least one topic. Average progress rate for SEND pupils was twice as long as mainstream peers. Stepwise regression revealed extent of disability significantly predicted progress rate. Further exploratory correlations revealed pupils with moderate to severe difficulties with hearing and/or language made slower progress through the apps than those with greater functionality in these two domains because the use of verbal instructions within the apps limited their capacity to learn. This original quantitative analysis demonstrates that interactive apps can raise learning standards in pupils with SEND but may have limited utility for pupils with severe difficulties. Software modifications are needed to address specific areas of difficulty preventing pupils from progressing.
CGA Integration into IPsec/IKEv2 Authentication
In IPv6 networks, two security mechanisms are available at the network-layer; SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) and IP security (IPsec). Although both provide authentication, neither subsumes the other; both SEND and IPsec mechanisms should be deployed together to protect IPv6 networks. However, when a node uses both SEND and IPsec, the authentication has to be done twice, which increases the burden on the node and decreases its performance. In this paper, we propose an approach to enable them to work together under the mediation of an Authentication Management Block, where IPsec uses the public-private keys obtained by SEND rather than negotiating its own authentication credentials in order to save the time and facilitate the IPsec authentication deployment. We implement and evaluate our approach using ipsec-tools and DoCoMo SEND implementations. Our proof-of-concept experiment shows a considerable speedup of IPsec authentication time.