Sentences with phrase «for national comparisons»

Still, the North Carolina state legislature has long asked for national comparison data to better understand how students might need to improve, says Garland, which is something Smarter Balanced would give them.

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A new analysis done exclusively for Poets & Quants by PayScale, which collects salary data from individuals through online pay comparison tools, shows that the MBA — even from schools that lack global or national caché, delivers hefty seven - figure income over a 20 - year period.

We've conducted this survey in the same manner for more than 30 years, and because it's consistently done the way it is, it gives an accurate national apples - to - apples comparison.

Once again, we tap into Zillow Group's wealth of data and use a data set that includes mortgage affordability, rental affordability, and price - to - income ratios for the five most populous US cities with comparison to the national median.

Low - adiabat rugby hohlraum experiments on the National Ignition Facility: Comparison with high - flux modeling and the potential for gas - wall interpenetration

The chart below, prepared by staff in our Economic area, undertakes a comparison of corporate sector profits in the national accounts as a share of GDP, for the US and Australia.

Now, in the further interest of National Security» or, in the Fast and Furious matter, for reasons that remain unjustified and murky» it pleases some on the secularist left (even those who once fiercely opposed the very «Patriot Act» that seems almost tame by comparison) to cultivate a quiet disinterest as the government accrues ever more power, without so much as a «do what, now?»

For comparison, neighboring Honduras has an estimated 86,000 nationals allowed in the US under the program, while Nicaragua has 5,000.

Janssen has hit 27 in 34 league games in his debut season for Alkmaar, was prolific for the Dutch U21s & has now made two appearances for the full national team - drawing comparisons with all - time great, fox - in - the - box Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

For comparison, National League favorites have received the majority of moneyline tickets in 76.5 % of all interleague games.

National perinatal data and data from National Women's Hospital, Auckland were used for comparison.

Public Health England's Child Health Profiles provide a picture of child health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using 32 key health indicators (including breastfeeding initiation and rates at 6 - 8 weeks), and enables comparison at local, regional and national levels.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

Dr. Bawumia, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana - turned politician, has often received public flak for virtually turning academic and economic presentations into a political platform where he always presents a saintly picture of the erstwhile NPP administration in comparison to the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.

A group called the National Partnership is out with a wage comparison for Equal Pay Day Tuesday.

There's certainly evidence that upstate New York is struggling — for instance, Moody's has cited data that «indicate a stalling economic recovery in upstate New York» — but given the available statistics, it's hard to do a national, apples - to - apples comparison to determine what region is faring the worst in the recovery.

For these diseases, the states with the «worst» and «best» age - standardized rates of years of life lost (YLLs) per 100,000 people were the following (with national rates shown for comparisoFor these diseases, the states with the «worst» and «best» age - standardized rates of years of life lost (YLLs) per 100,000 people were the following (with national rates shown for comparisofor comparison):

The ultimate goal of research is to develop indicators that can be obtained at national scales and used for pan-European comparison of structural properties of forests.

According to the authors, the study results provide procedure - specific national benchmarks for postsurgical outcomes that will facilitate comparisons for quality improvement.

Now, a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a statistical approach for ballistic comparisons that may enable numerical testimony.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

By comparison, today's fastest supercomputer, the National Center for Computational Science's Jaguar, does 10 million times better.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

With the inevitable comparisons between this El Niño and the 1997 - 1998 event — remembered for the incredible rains and mudslides it brought to California (along with Chris Farley's memorable Saturday Night Live sketch)-- Matt Rehme at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Visualization Lab, worked up an animation showing the progression of each event from January through August.

[5:01]-- Research paper; Glycemic variability — assessing glycemia differently and the implications for dietary management of diabetes by Jeannie Tay, Campbell Thompson, and Grant D. Brinkworth [6:47]-- Continuous glucose monitoring [8:29]-- Methods to diagnosis diabetes [9:29]-- Associated health issues with glucose variability [10:13]-- CSIRO study; Comparison of low - and high - carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes management: a randomized trial [10:43]-- The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)[14:34]-- The breakdown of macronutrients between the low carb and the high carb arm of the study [18:47]-- The outcomes of the study [22:52]-- How to approach reducing medication on a low carb diet [26:44]-- CSIRO announcement based on this study?

For comparison, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the most visited park of 2015), received nearly 6 million visitors just on its own.

In comparison, dating sites spent $ 241 million on national TV ad placements for all of last year.

According to research carried out by the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER), students at partially selective schools have «no overall academic benefit» in comparison to those attending non-selective institutions.

If we acknowledge this standard for valid comparisons, we can quickly dismiss the national and state - level comparisons, which constitute the bulk of the CRP report.

Late last week, the board that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress was poised to adopt a new framework for the NAEP reading test that would change the content significantly enough to prevent the continuation of comparisons among tests.

The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Director for School Standards and attended by the team leader of the DCSF's Schools Research Team, the DCSF International Comparisons Programme Manager, the Director of Assessment and Statistics at the National Foundation for Education Research, (their main external contractor), directors of the Training and Development Agency for Schools, and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

The programme supports science teaching and learning in schools by providing a national benchmark for comparison and detailed information on the skills and knowledge of each individual.

TFA also claims favorable comparisons with other service organizations: it says the Peace Corps spends $ 78,000 to recruit, train, and support a volunteer for a two - year commitment (the National Peace Corps Association puts the cost at $ 50,000 a year).

One of the leading indicators we use is whether a state's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores are improving, which is the only commonly administered assessment across the country that also allows comparisons for longitudinal purposes.

The final estimate of the International Comparison of Productivity, released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), confirms that output per hour in the UK lagged 18 percentage points behind the G7 average in 2014, and a staggering 36 percentage points behind Germany.

Washington — Efforts to provide state - by - state comparisons of student - achievement data moved forward last week with the announced formation by the Council of Chief State School Officers of a planning group for a new, expanded National Assessment of Educational Progress test in mathematics in 1990.

Schools signing up will be able to access the results for their own school as well as the national statistics once the survey is completed, providing school leaders with a comparison and allowing teachers to identify the specific needs of their pupils.

The Office for National Statistics regularly measures well - being and Seldon believes it would be possible to make school - level comparisons, which could go some way to tackle the «epidemic» of mental health problems among young people.

In comparison, secondary teachers are paid # 22.73 per hour on average, the Office for National Statistics figures show.

For instance, the change in MAP - R or MAP - M scores for a student at the beginning of the second and third grades could be compared to that student's school peers (equivalent to your average scale score comparison if I understand correctly), district peers, and national peers to evaluate the rate of academic growFor instance, the change in MAP - R or MAP - M scores for a student at the beginning of the second and third grades could be compared to that student's school peers (equivalent to your average scale score comparison if I understand correctly), district peers, and national peers to evaluate the rate of academic growfor a student at the beginning of the second and third grades could be compared to that student's school peers (equivalent to your average scale score comparison if I understand correctly), district peers, and national peers to evaluate the rate of academic growth.

We know that national standards are not needed for success in international comparisons.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

In a briefing paper prepared for the National Academy of Education (NAE) and the American Educational Research Association, Linda Darling - Hammond and three other distinguished authors reached the following conclusion: «With respect to value - added measures of student achievement tied to individual teachers, current research suggests that high - stakes, individual - level decisions, as well as comparisons across highly dissimilar schools or student populations should be avoided.»

He says that the Office for National Statistics regularly measures well - being - and that it would be possible to make school - level comparisons.

Massachusetts» standards are the «gold standard» for states, and make it clear why Massachusetts students consistently rank first in national comparisons.

For evidence that prevention has become a major role and activity for school psychologists, school psychologists need to look no farther than a comparison of the National Association of SchFor evidence that prevention has become a major role and activity for school psychologists, school psychologists need to look no farther than a comparison of the National Association of Schfor school psychologists, school psychologists need to look no farther than a comparison of the National Association of School

«The High School Benchmarks report, and other reports from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, are critical comparison points for NCAN and our members,» said Bill DeBaun, Director of Data and Evaluation, National College Access Network (NCAN).

For its part, National Alliance said it wants to include more measures of academic outcomes in future years and begin to make comparisons beyond those between charter schools and the public schools located around them.

Comparison tools to cross reference learning outcomes of the National Curriculum for England 2007 against the learning goals of the International Middle Years Curriculum.