Sentences with phrase «explained by the percentage»

In 2012, one of my graduate students and I explored this question using data of 191 high schools in Connecticut and found that multiple linear regressions revealed that 69 % of the difference (variance) in a school's average student achievement can be explained by the percentage of students living in poverty.

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Of course, with debt in 2016 rising by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP while nominal GDP grew by less than 8 percent, it isn't easy to explain how the real value of assets in China grew by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP, nor why it is proving so difficult to rein in credit growth without a sharp slowdown in GDP growth.

Represents the percentage of a fund's movement that can be explained by movements in the S&P 500 index.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

Percentage of the fund's returns explained by movements in the Citigroup World Government Bond Index.

R - Squared: Indicates what percentage of a manager's movement in performance is explained by movement in performance in its benchmark.

Worse, those averages overstate the annualized performance of funds by 0.14 to 0.68 percentage points, for reasons I'll explain in a moment.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

If you plan to increase your bread recipe by a fraction (for example, make a 1.5 x batch), you may want to use bakersâ $ ™ percentages, which we explain in some detail on our blog called «Baker's Percentage: Scaling bread recipes up and down the accurate (and easy) way.»

This reverse line movement can easily be explained by our money percentages, which indicate that Illinois has received 67 % of total dollars wagered.

This line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Auburn is actually receiving 78 % of total dollars wagered.

This two - point line move can also be explained by our money percentages, which show that Penn State is receiving 73 % of total dollars wagered.

This reverse line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Notre Dame is receiving 70 % of total dollars wagered.

This line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Washington State is actually receiving 82 % of total dollars wagered.

This can be explained by a few things: career lows in fly ball percentage and pull percentage, a career high in ground ball percentage, and nearly a 3 % lower home run / fly ball ratio than in his MVP season.

This can be explained by our money percentages, which show that 75 % of total dollars wagered have taken the Bears as home favorites.

This can easily be explained by our money percentages, which show that 90 % of total dollars wagered have taken the under.

This line movement can be partially explained by our money percentages, which show that New Mexico is actually receiving 96 % of total dollars wagered.

This line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Illinois is receiving 66 % of total dollars wagered.

Goff's off - the - chart completion rate for passes 20 - yards and over (59 %), versus Wentz» 38 % — that's a 21 percentage point discrepancy that's not explain by the wrist.

This can be explained by our money percentages, which show that 76 % of total dollars wagered have backed the Lions.

This lack of line movement can likely be explained by our money percentages, which indicate that Maryland has received 51 % of total dollars wagered.

This line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Iowa State is receiving 82 % of total dollars wagered.

This reverse line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Mississippi State is receiving 62 % of total dollars wagered.

That two - point swing can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Indiana is actually receiving 79 % of total dollars wagered.

That can be partially explained by our money percentages, which indicate Gonzaga is actually receiving 60 % of spread dollars.

This line movement can be explained by our money percentages, which indicate that Miami is receiving 70 % of spread dollars.

This can easily be explained by our money percentages, which indicate the Broncos are actually receiving 63 % of total dollars.

This two - point line move is very significant, and can be largely explained by our newly added money percentages.

This line movement can be easily explained by our money percentages, which show that Kansas State is actually receiving 72 % of total dollars wagered.

That line movement can be explained by our money percentages, which show that Chicago has received 82 % of spread dollars wagered.

This can easily be explained by our money percentages, which indicate the «Hawks are receiving 71 % of total dollars wagered.

In addition, I have asked the Department of Social Services Commissioner to explain what percentage of the 2015 CPS budget is paid by Erie County.

Although previous studies have found that a large percentage of hair colour variation is explained by heritable factors, previous genetic studies only identified a dozen or so hair colour genes.

About 70 percent of Parkinson's cases can not be explained by genetics, Bronstein said, so the new finding could be vital to a large percentage of patients whose disease is not genetically caused.

Their analysis also showed a gap of 4.2 percentage points for Asians; however, the differences between Asian and white award probabilities were explained by exclusion of noncitizens from the analysis.

Also, we would like to study what percentage of the association between respiratory tract infections and asthma can be explained by changes in lung function, and whether the associations change when we take early - life wheezing into account,» she will conclude.

«Depending upon the age and sex of the person being measured, callipers will determine their percentage of body fat by the sum of the measurements in all four areas,» explains McKee.

If you don't know what a drop set is, let me explain: It's when you do a set of an exercise to failure, reduce the weight by a large percentage (i.e. 30 - 50 %) immediately and then proceed to do another set to failure.

Included in these files... - Power Point presentation explaining the task - Differentiated instructions - Differentiated self - assessment forms - Differentiated challenges - All levelled Maths topics covered... - multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 - area and perimeter - percentages - fractions - volume and density - addition and subtraction CAN BE EASILY ADAPTED TO SUIT YOUR CLASSES» NEEDS.

In OECD countries generally, a large percentage of between - school variation in student performance is «explained» by differences in students» and schools» socioeconomic circumstances.

In their study, up to 43 per cent of the variance in written composition was explained by the three language conventions — leaving a large percentage unexplained.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

Instead of pouncing on Mr. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio might explain to voters why Barack Obama has spent his entire presidency trying to shut down a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that gives poor black and brown children access to private schools and, according to the Education Department's own evaluation, improves their chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

The low percentage of social studies educators who used Twitter for communication and class activities might be partially explained by school policies or cultures that discouraged or prohibited social media use.

The state's decision to change both the way it tests students and the way it translates student scores into a ranking means that dozens of schools saw their standings sink or soar by 50 or more percentage points between 2014 and 2016 — far more movement than experts say can be explained by typical changes in schools from one year to the next.

To announce that only 15 % of Michigan students are «College - Ready» is misleading — unless one begins by explaining that if Michigan students» ACT scores were just like those of other U.S. students, the percentage deemed to be «College - Ready» could not be higher than 20 % since one of the four Benchmarks is at the 80th percentile rank nationally.»

A cross-sectional analysis of state government employees from Sally Coleman Selden and Donald P. Moynihan found that states with higher pay for state employees experience lower turnover.26 This reduction in turnover from increased compensation helps to explain the common finding that employees» productivity can increase when they are paid higher wages.27 Furthermore, Selden and Moynihan found that states with a higher percentage of state employees covered by collective bargaining agreements have lower voluntary turnover, even after taking into account the effect of unionization on pay increases.28

Elsbeth's efforts help explain how TYWLS was able to beat a set of comparison schools on the state math test by 19 % in terms of the change in the percentage of students scoring proficient from the 2013 - 14 school year (the baseline year) to the 2014 - 15 school year (the first year PowerMyLearning partnered with TYWLS).

Boston, Massachusetts, which had a particularly contentious relationship with court ordered integration, saw the percentage of white students in public school plummet by more than 40 points between 1970 and 1990, a change that can not be explained by simple increases in the minority population: