Sentences with phrase «focused on benchmarking»

Our research focused on benchmarking high end performance station cars, one - off vehicles and market trends.»

We have more than 50 years of experience in understanding consumers, but today we're not just focused on benchmarking performance.

This study showed that the MAP program, one of the most widely used systems focused on benchmark assessments and training and differentiated instruction, had no impact on student reading.

Co-hosted by AIA New Jersey, the Committee on the Environment and USGBC New Jersey, this conference will focus on benchmarking the Building Sector's progress towards meeting -LSB-...]

Seeking a professional position in which to utilize my unique combination of skills, including developing and implementing major programs, leading large and small staffs, performing calmly under intense pressure, and focusing on benchmarks for increasing an organization's success.

We focus on benchmarks, tutorials, case studies, and how - to information that is useful to cluster users, administrators, purchasers, and designers.

Not exact matches

He says that Tyson's goal is to focus less on the startup's cost structure and what margins will look like today — benchmarks that any investor surely must consider — and instead take in consideration the brand's idea, the team behind it, and, perhaps most importantly, the entrepreneur.

It focused on the average wholesale price, a benchmark that's roughly equivalent to what an uninsured patient might pay at the pharmacy without the 15 to 20 percent discounts that big health plans get, said Jim Yocum, executive vice president for DRX.

Weeks later, Benchmark sued Kalanick for fraud, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary responsibility; the complaint focuses on Kalanick's control over Uber's board makeup.

«From our optics, if you define cyber as data collection, storage, security, analysis, threat intelligence, operations and dissemination, then the $ 1 trillion market forecast from Cybersecurity Ventures barely scratches the surface» says Jeremy King, President at Benchmark Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm focused on cyber, national, and corporate security.

Understanding that Benchmark is focused on achieving liquidity on its all - time greatest investment suggests two potential outcomes:

Without the burden of short - term performance benchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing on the long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfolio that will serve their investment goals best.

Rick Rieder: So I think people — the benchmark 10 - year, the 3 % that people are looking at, there's a lot of focus on — I think it's a big deal, but I think it's a big deal that yields are moving higher.

Choose your own peer group based on underlying factors like portfolio construction and industry focus, and benchmark your fund against funds with similar strategies.

As the focus shifted back from policymakers to earnings, U.S. stocks were essentially unchanged on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 index down just 0.03 %.

Demanding performance versus a benchmark and focusing on short - term results are the two great banes of investing» Barton Biggs

The research focuses on portfolio returns versus benchmarks but does not provide similar focus on investor outcomes.

We suggest that academics focus less on artificial benchmarks and more on client satisfaction.

When the Federal Reserve raises its benchmark Federal Funds Rate — as it did on June 14 by a quarter - point — attention tends to focus on interest - rate increases on debt and future borrowing.

When the Federal Reserve raises its benchmark Federal Funds Rate — as it did on June 14 by a quarter - point — attention tends to focus on... Read More

Through an established culture of strong branding, a focus on a premium customer experience, and a well - structured approval process, this alignment positions Benchmark Mortgages in the Edmonton marketplace for a new phase of growth

To better understand green bond performance and valuations in the secondary market, Morgan Stanley analyzed 121 self - labeled U.S. and European bonds, focusing on corporate, and government or government - related benchmark - size securities (at least $ 500 million).

For individuals focused on low cost but benchmark performance in a portfolio, a mix of ETFs can be a desirable option long term.

They focus on a monthly rebalanced 60 % allocation to SPY and 40 % allocation to IEF (60/40) as a benchmark.

You will ensure that all your units, lessons and materials focus on the Language Arts standards and benchmarks.»

The three recent benchmarks studies capture online program metrics from a variety of nonprofits that focus on a multitude of issue areas.

My focus will be on developing recognition of the CIOB in each country so that membership is seen as the benchmark qualification for construction professionals accepted at all levels of government.

Because the awards uniquely focus on the competencies and skills of individuals, they provide an annual benchmark of managerial best practice across the construction sector.

The project focused on the rights to health and to food, and the background research on the environmental factors affecting the realization of particular human rights became a resource for the human rights and environmental communities undertaking the development of standards, benchmarks, and indicators.

Today, Sentient released five papers and a web portal reporting significant progress in taking this step, focusing on three areas: (1) DL architectures are evolved to exceed state of the art in three standard machine learning benchmarks; (2) techniques are developed for increasing performance and reliability of evolution in real - world applications; and (3) evolutionary problem solving is demonstrated on very hard computational problems.

In JCAP, Dr. Soriaga's present research is focused on electrocatalytic reactions that underpin artificial photosynthesis; specifically, directed discovery of earth - abundant electrocatalysts, development of advanced surface - science methods for the characterization of benchmarked catalysts, and exploration of structure - composition - activity relationships to guide the expansion of catalyst - discovery strategies.

Truth be told, I'm not really a competitive person (my friends may disagree here), as I tend to be focused on holding myself to my own benchmarks, not those set by others.

Benefits: Greater accountability; Drawing teachers focus on what skills need to be taught; Identification of students who have not reached expected benchmarks in reading and numeracy, supported by evidence and data; Improved preservice teacher training and teacher professional learning.

And the old «percent proficient» metric caused schools to focus on the «bubble kids» — those right below the proficiency benchmark — while ignoring others.

From a variety of sources, L&D's focus is around 80 - 100 % on formal learning (learning apart from work), see ATD State and Industry Reports and or Towards Maturity benchmark studies.

The staff moved from a focus on state data to a focus on local benchmarks, visualizing that data with spreadsheets, graphs, trend lines, cohort comparisons, and cohort tracking.»

The Health & Safety Executive's Tackling the health and safety myths statement supports this view, advocating: «Those running school trips need to focus on the risks and benefits to people — not the paperwork» and choosing a provider with an LOtC Quality Badge is one way of benchmarking effective risk management.

The Towards Maturity Benchmark ™ helps organizations focus on improving performance of the Learning and Development team.

The benchmark tests enable teachers to know 1) the skills and concepts on which they need to focus instruction and 2) the students who need remediation classes.

This fall, I coached teams of teachers in a couple of schools on focusing their instruction on no more than three of the English Language Arts Power Standards for grades 10 - 12 that would be assessed on the first benchmark exam.

The ADP benchmarks come at a critical moment, as educators and philanthropists focus new attention on the American high school and as states are challenged to raise student achievement to the «proficient» level demanded by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Each session uses instructional practices that are used in the classroom and focuses on a section of the Core Benchmarks.

The law put a much greater focus on quality in charter school authorizing, for instance by mandating the closure of any charter school that fails to meet academic or financial benchmarks for three consecutive years.

The first Hour of Power consisted of students learning song parodies that were focused on strategies and motivation to do well in school and on the upcoming Benchmarks.

And if SEL finds a place in accountability — as it now has the potential to do under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- how will decisions about growth vs. proficiency impact teachers who are especially focused on these skills, but whose students may fall below standardized benchmarks?

We also give them benchmarks and I focus on certain TEKS that students are lacking.

Instead of focusing on what we expect of our students upon graduation, the discussion of standards has become complicated by political agendas, teacher evaluations, school rankings, the challenges of computerized test platforms, and a myriad of topics that distract from the original goal, which is to establish benchmarks for student learning.

Key 4 focuses specifically on ensuring 8th grade students meet college and career readiness benchmarks on the ACT Aspire test.

One difference is at the fall benchmark we may have identified some learners that were meeting the fall benchmark but just barely, and we wanted to «keep a close eye» on them; so, we are intentional in focusing on those students.

However, efforts on this front bump up against an educational paradigm that focuses on standardized testing and graduation rates as the benchmarks for measuring schools.