Such designs minimize the maximum mean squared error of the predicted values, with the maximum taken over a class of departures from the fitted response function.
Accordingly, in good 60's fashion, Mr. Moskowitz took over a class and brought in an analyst from the medical school.
Polite, formal and soft-spoken, he takes over a class whose students are traumatized to varying degrees and easily wins their confidence and affection.
Every time a substitute teacher takes over a class, he or she walks into unknown territory, often with scant preparation and no knowledge of the students.
Thankfully after my training finished there was a job vacancy at the same school, which means that I returned, taking over a class in September 2012.
In 1928, a young teacher (Hideko Takamine) takes over a class in a rural school; we follow her, and her dozen adoring pupils (theirs are the eyes of the title), until 1946, watching as they age, until war arrives to fray their former tranquillity.
The "permanent substitute," (one of my favorite education oxymorons), who took over a class for almost the entire school year, had better scores than veteran teachers.
Several of the involved had taken over a new class at the beginning of the intervention year and therefore lacked energy to engage in the different components of the Boost study.
"Welcome Back, Kotter" starred Gabe Kaplan as a high school teacher returning to his alma mater in Brooklyn to take over an unruly class of remedial students known collectively as the Sweathogs (because their top-floor classroom was always hot).
Last year, the BBC invited two Chinese teachers to take over a sixth-form class in the documentary Are Our Kids Tough Enough?
