Sentences with phrase «between performance measures»

This helps the learners gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between performance measures and the end business goals.

The CNGC's independent consultant attends and participates in CNGC meetings at which executive compensation matters are considered, and performs analyses for the CNGC at the CNGC's request, including benchmarking, realizable pay analyses, analyses of the correlation between performance measures and shareholder return, and assessments of the difficulty of attaining performance goals.

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It represents the difference between a fund's actual returns and its expected performance, given its level of risk as measured by beta (see definition of Beta).

It has just been quicker in responding to changes that the rest of the work world is now experiencing: data that allows individual performance to be measured continuously, come - and - go relationships between employers and employees, and global competition in which empires rise and fall overnight.

The annualized percentage difference between a fund's actual returns and its expected performance given its level of market risk, as measured by beta.

They define a «performance gap» between the time - weighted (buy - and - hold) return and the dollar - weighted (actual investor average) return as the measure of investor timing ability.

Alpha is a measure of the difference between a portfolio's actual returns and its expected performance, given its level of risk as measured by beta.

Alpha The difference between a fund's actual returns versus its expected performance, given its level of market risk as measured by beta.

Alpha: Measures the difference between a portfolio's actual returns and its expected performance, given its level of risk as measured by Beta.

When comparing labour productivity performance between economic cycles, it is therefore important to measure labour productivity over common phases of the cycle.

Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as measures of central bank independence, the use of monetary policy rules, freedom to use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.

If the returns for frequently and seldom traded art differ, there would be a disconnect between measured returns and overall asset class performance.

The Doing Business distance to frontier score measures the gap between a particular economy's performance and the best practice, and serves as basis for the ease of doing business rankings.

Even though many women, African - Americans and Asians are older than other students, there are no significant differences between them and other groups on various measures of academic performance.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success After Adjustment for Covariates

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success

In doing so, we did find a statistically significant positive correlation between performance and voting intention as measured by Public Policy Polling data around the same time.

Bowyer and his colleague Samuel Fenker, also at Notre Dame, used state - of - the - art, commercial iris - matching software to measure differences in the software's performance when comparing more than 20,000 different images of 644 irises, taken between 2008 and 2011.

However, no one has measured people's performance between 4 am and 6 am, when bodies are at a low ebb.

Carroll: Well, natural selections works on very tiny increments of differences in performance between organisms, and to measure those differences requires a whole lot of sampled life.

Apnea severity measures accounted for between 11 and 23 percent of the variance in cognitive test performance.

By systematically varying the ratio of lithium to a transition metal, like trying different amounts of ingredients in a new cookie recipe, the research team was able to study the relationship between the surface and interior structure and to measure the electrochemical performance of the material.

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

But even the validity of the questionnaires used to measure these traits is doubtful, and the correlations between performance and the level of each trait are low.

Because of poor correlation between self - reports of cognitive fatigue and tests of cognitive performance, scientists are looking at more objective measures, such as correlations with neuroimaging findings.

The authors also note that they did not find an association between anthracycline exposure and neuropsychological performance on any measure they examined.

«We need to establish measures so that — in spite of potential variability between people, methods and researchers — we can really say, «clearly this new advance led to higher performance,» because we have systematic ways of comparing that,» says co-lead author Chethan Pandarinath, then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford.

In normal humans, relationships between cognitive test performance and cortical structure have received little study, in part, because of the paucity of tools for measuring cortical structure.

Task - based functional connectivity measures the synchronization of activation levels between brain regions during the performance of a given cognitive task.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

TV Guide caught up with the actor between performances of Lobby Hero in New York to talk about his work in «Woods,» — a stunning performance that's generating awards buzz but better still, brought him some measure of peace.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

To measure gains in student achievement, we calculate the difference between 8th - grade performance in each subject and the performance level that would have been expected based on performance in both subjects in 4th grade.

Next year will see the introduction of «Progress 8», a new method of measuring school performance that aims to better assess the progress pupils make between Key Stage 2 and the end of their time at secondary school.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

The four elements posit LD as: 1) heterogeneous; 2) intrinsic or neurobiological; 3) marked by a significant discrepancy between learning potential (measured intelligence) and academic performance (measured skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and oral language); and 4) not caused by cultural, educational, environmental, or economic factors or by other disabilities (such as mental deficiency, visual or hearing impairments, or emotional disturbance).

The standard of scientific and technological performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of the productivity of the economy that is measured by the relationship between global GDP and sectoral GDP and resources used in production processes (raw materials, supplies and labor); 2) reduction of the costs of agricultural, industrial production, and services; 3) increase in investments in R&D; 4) innovation of new products and processes that is measured by its advance over previously used products and processes; 5) increase of the durability of products / services; 6) increase of physical safety of products / services provided to people and users; and, 7) decrease in the levels of technological dependency of the country from the outside.

Noted in the paper, ministers say they will update school and college performance measures in order to make sure that when the new T - level qualifications come into force in 2022, students can make an informed choice between an academic or technical education.

On most measures of student performance, student growth is typically about 1 full standard deviation on standardized tests between 4th and 8th grade, or about 25 percent of a standard deviation from one grade to the next.

But the association between performance on state tests and spending as a percentage of the foundation budget - the plaintiffs» preferred measure of spending - vanishes after applying even the most rudimentary demographic controls (see Figure 1).

She states that five studies have found «no consistent relationship between the subject - matter tests of the National Teachers» Exam and teacher performance as measured by student outcomes or supervisory ratings.»

The difference between basic and proficient is not simply quantitative and linear: It's a qualitative measure of performance.

Key performance indicators are quantifiable measures which can be used to compare the efficiency and success between different individuals in a company as well as different departments within an organization.

The authors of the North Carolina study attempt to control for hard - to - measure permanent characteristics of students who attend charters by estimating what is known as student «fixed effect» models, which involves measuring how student performance changes as students switch between the charter and traditional sectors.

Student success, measured by their college grades, was then used to measure the relationship between background and performance.

Here's how Harris characterizes the ERA findings on growth in a related brief: «None of the application measures predict the value - added performance of schools, though there are signs of a positive relationship between the NACSA ratings and value - added (emphasis added).

That really allowed us to answer the question: Is there a relationship between being absent from school and academic performance as measured in their NAPLAN results?

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools program.