Sentences with phrase «decisions about incentives»

Thus no system should rely solely on the snapshot of a single year's test scores in making decisions about incentives or consequences.

Not exact matches

The CD&A provides detailed information about, and analysis of our annual and long - term incentive plan compensation programs and compensation decisions for 2007 and includes a discussion of our compensation philosophy and objectives that guided these decisions.

Under this initiative, senior Company human resources, compliance, credit, and legal personnel compiled and analyzed extensive information about the Company's incentive plans, including plan documents, eligibility criteria, payout formulas and payment history, and held extensive interviews with business line managers to understand how evaluation of business risk affects incentive plan performance measures and compensation decisions.

Any decision by Amazon about where to locate its second headquarters will have the level of incentives offered by state and local governments factored in, with that incentives package to likely rank in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

And with Walcott due to make the big decision about whether to sign a new contract and commit his future to the Gunners once the season is done and dusted, the boss has an extra incentive to start Theo.

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

This creates a puzzle for academics: the ambiguity about whether donations are rewards or incentives — as well as the sheer multitude of factors that affect politicians» decisions — has led to inconclusive evidence about the influence of money in debates like this.

And indeed, while Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago was interested in bringing Aetna to his city, the insurer made its decision about New York before Chicago and Illinois could even put together an incentive package.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

Mr Healey said decisions «about new institutions through tax changes and incentives» were likely to be made in time for the Budget next March.

UPDATE: Paterson, during a telephone conference with reporters, said he will wait to make a final decision about layoffs until he sees how much savings can be achieved through the latest early retirement incentive.

And the employees who have sat on the IDA board don't make decisions about projects receiving IDA incentives in their work for the company, according to Corning's applications for tax breaks.

Without estimating costs or including them in decisions about using measures, there is limited incentive to develop cost - effective measurement strategies.

For unions, however, it means that administrators make decisions about where, when, and how teachers do their work and how incentives are structured - which is unacceptable.

High - stakes testing refers to the use of assessment data to make decisions about enrollment, retention, promotion, incentives for children or teachers, or other tangible rewards or punishments (Madaus, 1988; Meisels, 1989).

For state, district, and school leaders, value - added measures may aid in school improvement in at least three ways: improving programs, making decisions about human resources, and developing incentives for better performance.

School, district, and state leaders may be able to improve teaching by using value - added to shape decisions about programs, human resources, and incentives.

Districts, states, and schools can, at least in theory, generate gains in educational outcomes for students using value - added measures in three ways: creating information on effective programs, making better decisions about human resources, and establishing incentives for higher performance from teachers.

After 15 years of work by states and school districts to raise standards, disaggregate data, and close gaps, the federal government is taking the foot off the gas and leaving even more decisions to the states and to local school officials, including those about measures, metrics, incentives, and interventions.

Whether it be questions about financing, rebates, incentives, or a particular car, we have all the information you need to make a great decision.

When making a final decision I found VW was more aggressive with incentives of about $ 4000, rates of 0 - 1 % and more for my trade..

It's one thing to see a movie about a person struggling to balance the demands of his society with his personal morals, familial obligations, and basic needs... but I'd argue it's an entirely different situation to be placed directly into a recreation of that incentive structure and forced to make the decisions yourself.

The modelling conducted by ACIL Allen shows that whatever decision the government makes — halting the target immediately, halving it, and / or removing the small scale incentives, the installation of rooftop solar out to 2040 remains about the same — some 14GW of solar modules worth $ 30 billion.

By comparing information from several installers and exactly how much you qualify for in incentives by using these contractors, you can make a more informed decision about installing solar for your home.

Of course, individuals must play their parts, but with the right incentives, even those who don't care about the problem will tend to take the right decisions...

``... there is something inherently troubling about a billing system that pits a lawyer's financial interest against that of its client and that has built in incentives for inefficiency,» the decision states.

Working directly with the listing agent gets you closer to the decision maker and inherently creates an incentive for the listing agent to sell to you - they'll get BOTH sides of the commission (although they won't admit it, and they have a fiduciary responsibility to the seller, they're excited about the prospect).