Sentences with phrase «by multiple measures»

Structural equation modeling (SEM) allows for the simultaneous examination of the relationships between latent constructs defined by multiple measures as well as directly observed variables (e.g., gender, HbA1C) while reducing the effect of measurement error on results.

That means earnings per share by multiple measures are high for most of the leading companies, but justifiable if they continue to expand their profitability.

Many Americans also said they think students should be judged by multiple measures, including student work, written teacher observations and grades.

Guidance provided by the Multiple Measures Assessment Project, the California Acceleration Project, and others will be central to helping colleges make these important decisions.

informed by multiple measures that illuminate what is working and what needs to be improved or fixed.

The model calls for 40 percent of teachers» evaluations to be based on student academic progress, as determined by multiple measures of learning and achievement.

The model recommends that 40 percent of a superintendent's evaluation be based on student academic progress, as determined by multiple measures of learning and achievement.

Judgments about student learning and education program success need to be informed by multiple measures.

Real reform in education can be realized only when this fact is acknowledged by teachers who stand up and demand to be fairly evaluated by multiple measures, with one of those measures being test score data.

E4E - New York Executive Director Jonathan Schleifer argues that students and teachers alike should be assessed and evaluated by multiple measures (New York...

This is historic because it is the first time that a legislative body has sent a clear directive to the DOE, NYSED and Governor that high stakes standardized tests must be replaced by multiple measures.

«By multiple measures, the school offers an island of excellence in the midst of the inner - city neighborhood in which it resides,» according to a California Best Practices Study done in 2005.

Not exact matches

A new generation of service companies, like Lunar Design, have figured out that it's all in the multiple By most outward measures, Lunar Design would be considered a success.

Linton suggests experimenting by sending e-mails at varying times of day and measuring open rates on multiple devices.

Today, patient experience is measured by a survey called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (H.C.A.H.P.S.) The embattled survey asks multiple choice questions and aims to establish the quality of the care provided.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels.

For example, a recent Parliamentary Budget Officer analysis of tax expenditure changes from 2005 to 2013 demonstrates that multiple new measures introduced by Stephen Harper provided new benefits to tax filers in the 96th to 100th percentiles.

Returns by media type are similar whether measured simply in excess of the risk - free rate or adjusted for multiple risk factors common to long / short U.S. equity hedge funds.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, increase in stock price during the past year and expanding profit margins.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

These periods are driven by generally rising multiples of valuation as measured by the price / earnings ratio (P / E).

The highest normative ideal, trumping all others, is the ideal of an individual free to move among multiple attachments, and the merit of those attachments is measured by the degree to which they facilitate personal well - being.

By some measures it was the greatest sporting upset ever: multiple bookmakers had never paid out at such long odds for any sport.

Whether your multiples are in an Early Intervention program or receiving therapy through the school district, their development is measured by how well they meet goals and objectives.

Adequacy of prenatal care as measured by the Kotelchuck index, delivery method, having a multiple birth, delivering a low birthweight infant.

Control, she would write, has «multiple facets... positive control is measured by parental monitoring and democratic parenting; negative control is measured by psychological control and punitive parenting.»

At the same time, the measure requires public schools, government agencies and public colleges to have multiple - occupancy bathrooms, along with locker rooms, be designated to be used only by people of their «biological sex» — or what was stated on their birth certificate.

The measure, multiple versions of which have been proposed and introduced in the Legislature over the last several years, has been met with stiff resistance by social conservatives and the Catholic Church as well as advocates for the disabled.

«It's disappointing that the Comptroller's Office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» Conwall said.

She warned the measure would lend itself to exploitation by unscrupulous store owners in low income areas like her own, who might stock up on flimsy bags that require multiple reinforcements.

The measure has been passed multiple times by the Assembly, but has never been taken up by the Senate.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

«It's disappointing that the comptroller's office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» said Jason Conwall, a spokesman for the agency.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

These include the development of a biochemical sensor that can continuously and accurately measure different substances released by the organ - like system, as well as enhancements that allow the use of multiple physical sensors, which monitor features such as temperature, oxygen levels, and pH values.

By measuring how far the laser light was deflected by the glass bead, the team made multiple measurements of the particle's positioBy measuring how far the laser light was deflected by the glass bead, the team made multiple measurements of the particle's positioby the glass bead, the team made multiple measurements of the particle's position.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland: «Planetary Object Geophysical Observer (POGO),» a secondary payload that is a hopper to be dropped on the asteroid surface by the Asteroid Retrieval Vehicle to measure elemental composition of asteroid regolith at multiple locations.

According to Darling - Hammond, the provisions of No Child Left Behind effectively forced states to employ inexpensive, multiple - choice tests that could be scored by machine — and it is all but impossible, she contends, for such tests to measure deep learning.

For him, the revolution will produce a new data set that's seen and measured by multiple sources.

«Using multiple tools for measuring reading ease, we found that IPCC reports are designed for grownups, but they are not harder to read than other science documents, including those written for the public by professional writers,» said co-author Chris Field, who served as the co-chair of the second IPCC Working Group.

The research, commissioned by the Department of Health, is the first to present estimates for the number of babies with brain injuries based on a definition that includes multiple conditions in one measure.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

The climate change «hockey stick» is a graph first published in 1998 by Michael Mann et al. that attempted to reconstruct the mean surface temperature on the planet during the period A. D. 900 to the present, using multiple proxies, such as tree rings, to measure temperatures before formal instrumentation was in use.

Levine foresees an online nomination process that requires candidates to answer multiple - choice questions on a range of issues — and then graphically shows each voter how the candidates» stances match up to the voter's own, as measured by the same questionnaire.