Sentences with phrase «overall measure of performance»

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Management believes analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

For example, the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund seeks — with 60 % of its assets — to track the investment performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall U.S. stock market.

Cree believes that these non-GAAP measures, when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, enhance investors» and management's overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and the Company's prospects for the future, including cash flows available to pursue opportunities to enhance shareholder value.

This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been granted by the Committee for the past several years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation, with the time - based awards providing a measure of retention value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.

While the HRC noted that the Company was not ranked # 1 in every financial measure used to compare its performance to that of its Peer Group, its overall average # 1 rank across these measures over all three time frames confirmed the Company's strong, consistent, and superior core results.

The fund's overall Morningstar Rating measures risk - adjusted returns and is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3 -, 5 - and 10 - year (if applicable) rating metrics.

As a measure of safety performance, Talison Lithium monitors defined lead and lag indicators to assess overall safety effectiveness and performance.

For example, the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund seeks — with 60 percent of its assets — to track the investment performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall U.S. stock market.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

Net Profit — Measures a company's profitability after expenses; commonly called the Bottom Line, as it expresses the overall financial performance of the company.

We'll stick with the Power Ratings and observe that New England is the stronger team based on their performance, strength of schedule and overall quality measures.

I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of this paper on midwifery policy the United States.1 It represents several years of work by a large group of researchers to identify and measure the ways that state midwifery policies affect the overall performance

The collective ignorance of Gigerenzer's shoppers had yielded 10 per cent more than the Dax 30, an overall measure of stock performances in German markets.

Moreover, creatinine clearance, which is measure of the overall performance of the organ, also dropped markedly within 28 days in cats that received a diet rich in phosphorus.

In the absence of broader structural measures, the authors conclude that «targeted technology initiatives, strategic industry policies, and the like will have modest positive effects at best, and may instead prove harmful to overall economic performance».

An important overall measure of physics performance is the «triple product» of the peak ion density, the plasma energy confinement time and the peak ion temperature.

Generally speaking, if a form of training can not be easily linked to improved performance in some measure critical to your sport, or does not directly improve the overall health of the athlete, DO NOT DO IT.

None of the studies, though, attempted to measure fully the impact of the policy on students who might have been motivated to work harder to avoid being held back, or on teachers and schools; nor did they parse the effect of student retention on overall system performance.

By employing head - mounted cameras on students, and using time - lapse photography, they say it's now possible to get a much more comprehensive perspective of overall classroom ambience to better measure teacher performance.

While TSL is calculated in each of the case studies, there is no evidence that the measure is correlated with overall district performance or district growth in achievement.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

This component makes up 50 and 75 percent of the overall evaluation scores in the districts we studied, and much less is known about observation - based measures of teacher performance than about value - added measures based on test scores.

While this means that some of the students, whose test scores are included in the school's performance measure, may have only been in that school for a relatively short time, it avoids problems associated with excluding the high - mobility students - typically the lowest - performing students - from the district's overall accountability measure.

While most high school students will disagree (and few of us grown - ups remember our exam periods at school that fondly either), tests, quizzes and exams are a straightforward way to measure the overall performance of your learners and their comprehension of the training material.

And though the state is still struggling to turn around numerous low - performing schools, it excels overall on such measures of student performance as the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Starting this year, information from these measures will be publicly reported and is expected to play a modest role in schools» performance ratings, comprising eight percent of overall scores.

«A «dashboard» accountability system will include important information about school and student performance, but it is unclear how it will be measured and incorporated into an overall measure of school quality.»

The study argues that a progress measure would push schools to focus on how well all of its pupils are doing, because each individual performance counts equally towards the school's overall rating.

It said that scores on California Standards Tests and other non-state test measures, including district assessments and samples of students» work, «are to be considered an important but clearly limited part of the overall performance evaluation process.»

This makes static test scores poor measures of a school's overall performance because students perform better on state tests the longer they are enrolled.

The Academic Performance Framework (APF) was developed in an effort to combine school progress, achievement and culture data into one overall measure of school pPerformance Framework (APF) was developed in an effort to combine school progress, achievement and culture data into one overall measure of school performanceperformance.

What else counts: Under the new tenure law, student performance measures can not count for more than 50 percent of a teacher's overall evaluation.

• Using multiple measures to assess school performance, though which measures are used and how much they are weighted in an overall school assessment will be a key part of the discussion.

The Targeted Schools include 25 underperforming and difficult - to - staff schools that have suffered from staff retention issues and that have demonstrated growth over time based upon several measures of school - wide teacher performance and overall academic growth.

Equitas Academy's 2012 - 2013 API score: 894 The Academic Performance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewiPerformance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewiperformance and improvement over time on statewide testing.

Despite these successes, Reville could not shake an uncomfortable truth: the overall achievements of Massachusetts students masked large gaps on every measure of performance that correlated strongly with socioeconomic status, race / ethnicity, disability, and English language learner status.

Few of the model policies above explicitly refer to graded lessons — although Ofsted's Inspection Handbook has criteria against which the quality of teaching overall will be judged and the DfE gives an example of lesson quality as an absolute performance measure.

The instructional effectiveness component offers educator ratings and reliable and valid measures of student progress for both state - and non-state-tested content areas and contains an Evaluation Score Compiler that compiles ratings, student performance and other information into one overall evaluation score.

Moreover, a blended learning approach can help you measure the effectiveness of your overall training program, as feedback from employees can not only be used as an indication of their performance levels, but also as a training strategy evaluation tool.

This form of brief assessment measures overall performance of key foundational skills at each grade level and draws upon over thirty years of scientific research that demonstrates both its versatility to provide accurate prediction of reading and math achievement as well as its sensitivity to growth.

Our conclusion in our report to Congress and the public was sobering: There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress, and there is widespread teaching to the test and gaming of the systems that reflects a wasteful use of resources and leads to inaccurate or inflated measures of performance.

No matter how you mix it, it's better to go with Value - Added, student surveys, or both: As Dropout Nation noted last year, the accuracy of classroom observations is so low that even in a multiple measures approach to evaluation in which value - added data and student surveys account for the overwhelming majority of the data culled from the model (72.9 percent, and 17.2 percent of the evaluation in one case), the classroom observations are of such low quality that they bring down the accuracy of the overall performance review.

We'll get on to straight line performance in a moment but the P1's number one target was overall performance — measured most accurately in terms of lap times.

Overall ratings reflect injury measures recorded on two instrumented SID - IIs dummies, assessment of head protection countermeasures, and the vehicle's structural performance during the test.

Each vehicle's overall evaluation is based on three aspects of performance — measurements of intrusion into the occupant compartment, injury measures from a Hybrid III dummy positioned in the driver seat, and analysis of slow - motion film to assess how well the restraint system controlled dummy movement during the test.

But, as a holistic performance test, the overall PCMark delivers a meaningful measure of a given slate's overall capabilities relative to others.

On Linpack, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall system performance, the Droid 4 returned a score of 51 on the single - threaded test, which is far stronger than the 18.3 smartphone average, the 17.3 provided by the 1 - GHz single core Samsung Stratosphere, and the 39 offered by the HTC Rezound and its 1.5 - GHz dual core Qualcomm processor.

On Geekbench 3, which measures overall performance, the tablet notched 2,519, which is slightly behind the iPad Air (2,694), but way ahead of the Nexus 7 (1,849) and category average (1,634).

Both are clocked at 1.4 GHz and score nearly identically on the AnTuTu benchmark, which serves as a measure of overall system performance.