Sentences with phrase «different benchmarks for»

Also, 48 states and the District have joined in an effort to develop a common core of rigorous educational standards to replace the current system in which states have wildly different benchmarks for what should be taught in school.

The natural solution then is to apply a different benchmark for each half of the year.

Not exact matches

While the Dow Jones industrial average is often used as a benchmark for the economy writ large, it is actually an amalgamation of only 30 different stocks including Apple, Walt Disney and McDonald's.

The MSCI and Standard & Poor's benchmarks for these frontier markets and their underlying countries are vastly different where some countries have a significantly higher weight in the benchmark than others.

A look at the buoyancy of the IT jobs market in the UK, and the regional starting salaries for different roles with some IT salary benchmarking

As far as I can see, all the difficulties (so called) with predestination come about through a mistaken interpretation of a few Bible passages which are then used as the benchmark for all other verses despite the fact that these verses may be saying completely different.

To get reliable benchmarks for the living wage in different countries, UTZ collaborates with six other leading sustainability standards in the Global Living Wage Coalition.

The authors gathered numbers from 15 organizations and used them to derive the Return On Investment of many different practices and provide benchmarks for other organizations to use when measuring their own campaigns» effectiveness.

«The testing is never for the purpose of playing gotcha with kids, gotcha with teachers, frustrating parents, frustrating communities, but we nee to have a benchmark by which to know how are students are doing in different settings,» said Tish.

I mean you just kind of used the generic word for benchmarks and there are lot of different ones that are out there.

«Best Practice Framework is good benchmarking tool for Fracture Liaison Services worldwide: New review finds Capture the Fracture Best Practice Framework helps raise standards, reinforce international guidelines, and identify challenges common to FLS in different health - care systems.»

Internationally - acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has famously challenged the established benchmarks of cinema, in Caché he showed the camera as the objective observer, in a medium that is notorious for its subjectivity, but Funny Games does something a little different.

EW: As you note in your book, the benchmarks for students in different states vary widely.

• The lack of a standard system within schools and between schools is expected to create problems around national benchmarking and for pupils and teachers moving between schools operating different systems.

9 - 12) Standard 1: Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process; Benchmark: Writes compositions that are focused for different audiences (e.g., includes explanations and definitions according to the audience's knowledge of the topic, adjusts formality of style, considers interests of potential readers).

The council would, among other tasks, evaluate the effectiveness of the common - core assessments; help set performance - level benchmarks for cross-state tests; provide professional development for teachers and the public on how to use different tests; and develop and study policies and protocols to protect students» privacy while allowing the use of assessment data for research.

Districts choose their own benchmark tests (neighboring districts might use different ones), scores are not public, and there are no consequences for scoring poorly on them.

For example, you could use Benchmark results to break your learners into small groups or to pull specific learners out of their individual classrooms into a different program.

The survey gathers hundreds of responses from participating school districts and creates top 10 rankings for districts that met digital education benchmarks in three different categories.

Neither Benchmarks for Science Literacy (American Association for the Advancement of Science - Project 2061, 1993) nor the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) recommend a particular sequence, although both recommend that curriculum materials and teachers make more connections between different science disciplines and between the sciences and other disciplines.

Provide benchmarks for different levels of student performance on high - stakes assessments — thus creating the foundation for differentiated diplomas based on the results of high school exit exams.

This is much different than interim assessment or summative assessment, where learning is measured and possibly even graded for benchmarking purposes.

Providing industry benchmark services for a vast range of subjects including different variants of assignment help services like last minute urgent services, budget services or premium services; we have it all for you.

So, the quality benchmark for books with diverse characters are vastly different from those for white - neutral books and that keeps a lot of very good books from seeing readers, and even worse, it keeps diverse writers from developing and writing those excellent books.

Remember, the reason why the same benchmark XIRR can be different for each fund is because it replicates each fund's transaction pattern, with varying investment amounts and cash flows.

The reason why the tracking error chart shows wildly different values is that while their numbers agree with my computations for XSP, the returns for the benchmark index are very different.

If you intend to use the S&P 500 as the benchmark for small cap value finds or ETFs, you may be surprised at how different their one year returns have been.

And already I'm fully aware the designated performance benchmark here is very different for me than everybody else... which is, of course, entirely my own fault!

TREB's benchmark price index, which adjusts for different property types, was up 12.2 per cent from the same time last year.

If you're in foreign stocks as well or your bonds are not broad - based, but just government bonds, for example, you might need to consider different benchmarks.

* Each mortgage scheme might have a different set of rules for withdrawals, so only parts of this benchmark might apply.

It turns out the reasons for the diverging performance was similar in both years: it came down to the different index benchmarks these funds use.

Although these average returns may not accurately represent the holdings in VTSMX or your replicated portfolio and the average returns statistics for each market cap may represent slightly different holdings than those of the Vanguard funds, these nuances don't pose a problem in this example because I'm using the same benchmark to estimate the returns on VTSMX and the replicated portfolio.

In emerging markets, while RBC and Vanguard use the same index provider for their ETFs, the benchmarks are quite different.

For some strategies, the cap - weighted S&P 500 will be perfectly appropriate; for others, different benchmarks will provide the asset owner with more insigFor some strategies, the cap - weighted S&P 500 will be perfectly appropriate; for others, different benchmarks will provide the asset owner with more insigfor others, different benchmarks will provide the asset owner with more insight.

She makes the case that two high dividend yield ETFs, while having a similar name, can have drastically different sector exposure, and holdings, thus you need a broad benchmark — not the one created for the ETF to target.

GG: We manage money for all different client needs, from non-stock ultra-conservative to 100 % stock ultra-aggressive, so there is no single appropriate benchmark for performance.

Shelter managers need a consistent way to communicate and manage this data so they can make meaningful comparisons between shelters in different communities over time and set benchmarks for success.

«For example a radeon 7979 has about 1000 more gigaflops than a gtx 680 yet a gtx 680 beats it in most benchmarks» That's correct if you compare a Radeon to a Geforce, you can't directly compare them to each other because the architectures are different.

Many of these titles have set benchmarks for fighting games in various different areas over the years and make DoA's factual status as an absolute shit game comparatively all the more apparent, while DoA has literally been nothing more than an ugly - ass redheaded stepchild of the masterful fighting games I listed earlier.

Note for example how different the laundry room is from Edward Hopper's Rooms by the Sea, of 1951, the midcentury benchmark for the portentous depiction of empty rooms.

When different benchmarks were reported for the same GHG, the predominant figure is pointed out using a «bold» letter.

The need for benchmarking exists because testing methods employed by researchers in the solar - fuels research field are far from standardized (different light sources, electrolyte solutions, pH ranges, etc.), making it difficult to cross-compare the performance of different materials, and more difficult still to determine which materials are truly the most promising.

In order to conduct this study, we sampled quotes for one benchmark property in 27 different Rhode Island cities.

After establishing their smartphones as benchmark devices around the world, Samsung recently introduced two of their bestselling models to the Indian market: Galaxy S Advance and Galaxy Pocket — two different phones for two different lifestyles.

The reason for the range of benchmark results is that they reflect different clock frequencies, according to @UniverseIce, who earlier tweeted that the A11 would be a 3.0 GHz processor.

Built in partnership with London - based Crypto Facilities, the prices for the two benchmarks will be derived from six different bitcoin exchanges - Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Coinbase, Genesis Global Trading, itBit and Kraken - and are designed to be compliant with global regulatory requirements.

Since 2016, we have collected more than a hundred thousand benchmark results for seven different iPhone models across three different versions of iOS.

In a benchmarking test, Hilsentenger found that the iPhone 7 models with the smallest and largest amounts of storage have similar storage read speeds — 686 MBps for the 32 GB, 856 MBps for the 256 GB — but the write speeds were drastically different.

- Benchmark salary and bonuses for different roles and profiles - Highlight career aspirations - Understand perceptions of procurement.