Sentences with phrase «aggregate measure»

Because of how it is constructed, this approach ensures that there is essentially no relationship between the growth measures and aggregate measures of student poverty.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

We conducted a quantitative meta - analysis of studies published between 1998 and 2008 on academic achievement, behavioral functioning, and EF with the aim of providing aggregated measures of effect size for these outcome domains.

Publicly available data allow the calculation of aggregate measures like the percentage of arriving rockets intercepted.

At best, they track aggregate measures such as overall proficiency and graduation rates, which can hide the consequences for the specific schools, or grades or subjects actually affected by their initiatives.

The broader lesson is that educators and policymakers must look beyond aggregate measures of student performance to assess the nature of observed performance trends, and they must carefully distinguish between concerns of generalizability and concerns of meaningfulness.

Comparing the costs of mitigation with avoided damages would require the reconciliation of welfare impacts on people living in different places and at different points in time into a global aggregate measure of well - being.

* Extremely high geopotential heights (a vertically aggregated measure of atmospheric temperature) over the northeastern Pacific Ocean are historically linked to very low precipitation in California.

As he put it, «Aggregate measures really mask a lot of idiosyncrasies that are going on in the market.»

We have shown that, despite their limitations, aggregate measures of non-cognitive skills based on student self - reports provide useful information about students» development, as both levels and year - to - year changes in students» self - ratings are associated with changes in related academic and behavioral outcomes.

This allows the final data product to provide an aggregate measure of climate rather than be restricted to individual weather data sets.

Our use of proficiency rates, an aggregate measure of school performance, distinguishes our work from other recent studies that examine the performance gains made by individual students.

We found a modest effect of a combined or aggregate measure of individual and collective principal efficacy on the leadership practices of principals, mostly accounted for by individual efficacy.

Standard regression analyses indicate that the aggregate measure of district conditions explains 19 % of the variation in LSE and 56 % of the variation in LCE.

Table 2.2.3 reports correlations between LSE, LCE, an aggregated measure of efficacy and leader behavior (in the Combined column), school conditions, and classroom conditions.

Results of a standard regression analysis show that our aggregate measure of district leadership (using the adjusted R) explains 8 % of the variation in LSE, half of which is accounted for by Managing the instructional program; it also explains 40 % of the variation in LCE, of which significant contributions are made by Redesigning the organization (9 %) and Managing the instructional program (4 %).

These indexes are aggregate measures that track the bond market or particular segments of it.

In contrast, the aggregate measure indicates that profitability is trading very near its historical norms of relative valuation, perhaps explained by low P / B value stocks having far less profitability than they have historically.

The OECD defines GDP as «an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus any subsidies, on products not included in the value of their outputs).»

It matches up two different anomaly bases for aggregate measures.

In fact, we predict that while most regions will face a reduction of up to 0.1 standard deviations in our aggregate measure of child health by 2030, this impact could be up to three times as large in the most affected areas.

Australia compared «exceptionally well» to other countries on the United Nations Human Development Index — an aggregate measure of life expectancy, education and standard of living — ranking second after Norway.

In other words, it confirmed that it was appropriate to combine responses to these questions to produce a scale or aggregate measure of father - child relationship.

For example, physical assault documents whether a child experienced any of the relevant physical assault screeners, and maltreatment records any maltreatment episode (aggregate measures and associated screeners are presented in the Table).

Eight aggregate measures were constructed to represent each child's overall experience within each domain, with each measure recording whether a child had experienced any victimization of that type.

To better understand why some fathers are apt to disengage, the remainder of this brief uses an aggregated measure of accessibility, engagement, and responsibility, to analyze the predictors of low father involvement.

«These aggregate measures use the average changes in sales prices of homes that sell, and thus don't necessarily capture how the current value of individual homes compare to their pre-recession peaks.»

«While these measures are indeed a sign that the housing market has improved since the Great Recession, they are aggregate measures,» writes Ralph McLaughlin, author of the report and chief economist at Trulia, of the indicators.