Sentences with phrase «for performance study»

When I first began teaching 9 years ago in MNPS, Vanderbilt was beginning a pay for performance study in Nashville middle school mathematics classrooms.

«A Paradigm for Performance Studies.»

There's a little thing called survivorship bias, which is «the tendency for failed companies to be excluded for performance studies due to the fact that they no longer exist.»

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

Studies have shown that more than 65 % of all competencies deemed essential for high performance in the workplace are related to emotional intelligence.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

After his presentation, Fullbrook summarized the study's findings for me this way: «Our research shows that CEO pay and performance are largely in sync at Canada's largest corporations, contrary to conventional wisdom.

Rosekind, the scientist who studied the benefits of naps and developed a «fatigue countermeasures» program for NASA, put it in terms business people can understand: «Which person do you want on the job, the one with 34 % better performance [after a nap] and 100 % more alert — or the other guy?»

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

Studies show that CEOs who overestimate their abilities tend to overpay for acquisitions, take undue risks, introduce more unsuccessful new products, and have more volatile firm performance.

Specifically, the study found that caffeine was more effective for delayed recall performance, working memory and the speed of responding.

Yet another study is forthcoming from the International Performance Assessment Centre for the Storage of CO2, but since this agency is funded by the Saskatchewan government and Royal Dutch Shell, a dismissal of the Kerrs» claim would not likely sway many minds.

Using Project Oxygen, an internal study that analyzed more than 10,000 manager impressions including performance reviews, surveys, and nominations for top - manager awards and recognition, Google identified eight habits of highly effective managers.

Team results were also studied so a player would benefit from victories but would be punished for losses, regardless of his own individual performance.

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

Study after study has been done that shows when we're presented with extrinsic motivators — a performance evaluation, a stats counter, a grade at the end off a class — these motivators actually become shiny objects that conceal our own intrinsic reasons for doinStudy after study has been done that shows when we're presented with extrinsic motivators — a performance evaluation, a stats counter, a grade at the end off a class — these motivators actually become shiny objects that conceal our own intrinsic reasons for doinstudy has been done that shows when we're presented with extrinsic motivators — a performance evaluation, a stats counter, a grade at the end off a class — these motivators actually become shiny objects that conceal our own intrinsic reasons for doing it.

For example, a few years ago, a compelling study in the MIT Sloan Management Review used ROA data (among other metrics) to compare the performances of external and internal candidates in CEO successions.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

Study after study and expert after expert agree that taking regular, short breaks to refresh and recharge is good for not only your sanity but also your performance and productiStudy after study and expert after expert agree that taking regular, short breaks to refresh and recharge is good for not only your sanity but also your performance and productistudy and expert after expert agree that taking regular, short breaks to refresh and recharge is good for not only your sanity but also your performance and productivity.

(We don't know whether or not Korean students, for example, are commensurately more active, but again the British study shows we can raise academic performance with more exercise so it's a valid way forward.)

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

According to a research paper from the American Psychological Association, setting specific goals led to a higher performance 90 percent of the time for companies studied.

You may have heard that multitasking is bad for you, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain.

Altimeter group in 2012 came up with an interesting study and a framework for accessing Content Marketing performance and success.

Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research on the effect of ESOPs on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism study of Great Place to Work applicants; data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.

To get a handle on causality in the relation of organizational form with company performance, many studies use before / after comparisons and various statistical corrections for endogeneity of company form.

While surveys conducted by both the Centre for Political Research and Studies (CIEP) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) indicate that while the Costa Rican electorate is happy with Solís» performance in office, they have not repaid his party with substantive support for its candidate.

Digging further into the outperformance of HML SMALL during this period, the study's authors note that the HML alpha can be tied more to horrible performance by the low - value small cap stocks for the period instead of great performance by the high - value stocks.

In their November 2016 paper entitled «Applying a Systematic Investment Process to Distributive Portfolios: A 150 Year Study Demonstrating Enhanced Outcomes Through Trend Following», Jon Robinson, Brandon Langley, David Childs, Joe Crawford and Ira Ross compare retirement portfolio performances for variations of the following three strategies that may hold a broad stock market index, a 10 - year government bond index or cash (3 - month government bills) in the U.S., UK or Japan:

The term «speaker's drama» arises out of the oral study of literature for interpretive performance.

First, since it is based in art, performance studies» rich tradition of creating, evaluating, and doing performances offers insights and strategies for intermingling verbal and literary aspects of the preaching event.

It is worth revisiting this site, however, for what we can learn about the status of «communication» and «art» in the study of preaching and how performance studies promises conceptual replenishment in these areas.

Performance studies is an emergent discipline that can break open the words «art» and «communication» in fresh ways for homiletics and help it to tread on new conceptual ground.

Though my job performance was faultless, and not a single one of the doctrines I was studying had anything to do with the doctrinal statement of the organization, the founder thought that if donors heard that I was studying these doctrines, support for the organization would decrease.

Even some of Vickers» supporters were skeptical, one suggesting that the most charitable interpretation was that, upon studying the role, the tenor must have been unable to connect with it in the way necessary for his best performances.

Wallace Bacon has reflected on the value of performance - centered research in and for the study of human communication.

This essay certainly can not exhaust the possibilities for dialogue between performance studies and homiletics.

The purpose of this essay is to reconstitute the term for homiletics by grounding it in the emergent discipline of «performance studies.»

For example, Elaine Lawless has studied the contrasting stylistic devices in the performances of women evangelists and preachers in Handmaidens of the Lord: Pentacostal Woman Preachers and Traditional Religion.

In England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetry.

In our study, we found that habitual chocolate users performed better in all cognitive tests and had significantly reduced risk for poor test performance in most tests, whereas the mean intake of chocolate among users was as little as < 8 g / d.

Panerio is referring to the recent study made by scientists from India showing that the derived lines of Golden Rice produced abnormality and poor yield performance making it unfit for commercial cultivation.

A recent study made by scientist in India showed that the derived lines of Golden Rice produced phenotypic abnormality and poor agronomic performance making it unfit for commercial cultivation.

In recent study, scientists from India showed that the derived lines of Golden Rice produced phenotypic abnormality and poor yield performance making it unfit for commercial cultivation.

The major strengths of this study include the use of monadic testing, whereby each participant was exposed to a single labelling system for performance testing.

The result was that there was no statistical impact on the run, so the study concluded that «Omega 3 Chia loading appears a viable option for enhancing performance for endurance events lasting > 90 minutes and allows athletes to decrease their dietary intake of sugar while increasing their intake of Omega 3 fatty acids but offered no performance advantages.»

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

Add to this the recent published study stating that Golden Rice is unfit for commercial cultivation due to poor agronomic performance leading to low yield.

Both studies are shattering long held beliefs that animal - only proteins are needed for superior athletic performance as it relates to muscle gain and endurance.