Sentences with phrase «gap analysis findings»

b.Develop strategies to address needs assessment / gap analysis findings, and set high expectations for transformation at all levels.

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In a salary analysis that looked at the earnings of more than 14,000 graduate business school alumni, GMAC found that female alumni experience a significant wage gap throughout their careers.

Google says it performed that analysis across 52 jobs categories last year and found no pay gap.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

An analysis found that even a big increase to a full retirement age of 70 would only take care of 25 % of the Social Security funding gap, while a 1 % tax increase would make up for 52 % of the problem and eliminating the taxable wage cap would pay for 74 %.

Whether you have none of the previous two ways OR you have it and still want to still find portfolio gaps, Correlation Analysis is a super-wonderful way to do it.

In trying to close the gap, one finds additional preconditions of which one had previously been unaware, and, looking in the other direction, one tries out new axioms, for example concerning symmetry conditions suggested by the local analyses.

Following up from his 2015 analysis on the economic and cultural positions of party supporters in England, Jonathan Wheatley uses 2017 data and finds that party supporters have become far more polarised — leaving a gap in the middle, occupied possibly by large numbers of undecided voters.

But a promising finding is that we're seeing the gap narrow in the incidence rates between Appalachia and non-Appalachia since the 2007 analysis with the exception of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, larynx, lung and bronchus, and thyroid,» Wilson said.

Despite the data gap, Xing was able to make some initial findings in her analysis.

March 25, 2015 New analysis finds successes, gaps in community - based diabetes prevention programs Lifestyle interventions designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes can work well in group - based, community settings, conclude authors from the University of Chicago Medicine in a new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 2015.

If you've read Janet Halfyard's excellent score analysis for Elfman's Batman score (published by Scarecrow Press, and also reviewed by MFTM), the featurette basically adds a fat chapter on the composer's transitional period from stage to film; it's already well - outlined in her book, but the DVD's interview fills in some gaps that Elfmanites will find highly informative.

Since the War on Poverty, the average gap in per - pupil spending between two states grew by 256 percent, an Education Week analysis finds.

An analysis of test score gains made by students in 49 countries which was published in Ed Next last year found that students in the U.S. were not on track to close the global achievement gap.

To this end, the Center has developed a three - stage knowledge transfer process: (1) Knowledge Synthesis — a critical analysis of cutting - edge science and program evaluation research to identify core concepts and evidence - based findings that are broadly accepted by the scientific community; (2) Knowledge Translation — the identification of gaps in understanding between scientists and the public, and the development of effective language to communicate accurate scientific information in a way that can inform sound public discourse; and (3) Knowledge Communication — the production and dissemination of a wide variety of publications and educational media via print, the Web, and in - person presentations.

An analysis by Paul Peterson and Matthew Ackerman for Education Next found a significant closing of the «honesty gap» between 2011 and 2013.

In a revealing analysis of a large data set, Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and his colleagues found that placement in special education in grades 3 - 6 was associated with gains of 0.04 standard deviation in reading and 0.11 in math; such small gains indicate that children with LD clearly are not closing the gap.

We caution, however, that our analysis is correlational rather than causal, so these patterns of findings are merely suggestive that socioeconomic test score gaps persist relatively unabated regardless of the degree of socioeconomic integration at the school level, and are far from definitive.

One of the more interesting findings from our analysis of the NLP data was the effect the program had on the so - called gender gap: boys benefited more than girls from the literacy hour.

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.

However, when ELL students attended public schools with at least a minimum threshold number of white students, the gap between the math proficiency scores of white students and ELL students was considerably narrower, the Pew Hispanic Center analysis has found.

A research analysis found correlations between improved school climates and narrower achievement gaps between students in different socio - economic groups.

Although this analysis presents only a snapshot of achievement gaps in the United States, the findings make clear that these gaps remain an urgent problem.

In its analysis of more than 15,000 high school transcripts from nine diverse school districts in California, 1 the Education Trust - West, a small nonprofit education policy and advocacy organization dedicated to closing opportunity and achievement gaps, found a pattern of schooling that should disturb us all.

A 2016 meta - analysis of 78 studies published between 2000 and 2015 found that schools with positive climates narrowed income - based achievement gaps and gaps between students with different academic abilities.60

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

A CALmatters analysis of the biggest districts with the greatest clusters of needy children found limited success with the policy's goal: to close the achievement gap between these students and their more privileged peers.

Edward Fergus, citing findings from his 10 - year root cause analysis of disproportionality (2016), found that «the wellness of instruction and curriculum as it is represented in instructional support teams / teacher assistance teams, intervention services, assessment, and gifted and talented programs continuously emerged as maintaining gaps in practices that disproportionately affected struggling learners.»

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

An analysis found that even a big increase to a full retirement age of 70 would only take care of 25 % of the Social Security funding gap, while a 1 % tax increase would make up for 52 % of the problem and eliminating the taxable wage cap would pay for 74 %.

An investor might jump into a position on speculation, recommendation or momentum only to find out later that there were obvious gaps in their analysis of what risk the company was exposed to.

In a 2007 report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reported on a number of gaps in legal education and set out a series of recommendations for bridging those gaps.2 Among the authors» findings was the «increasingly urgent need to bridge the gap between analytical and practical knowledge...» 3 The resulting recommendation that the teaching of legal doctrine be integrated beyond «case - dialogue courses» and into courses that focus on more practical skills acknowledged that this idea was «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 4 One of the schools where the teaching of legal analysis has long been integrated into practice - focused courses is the University of Maryland School of Law (Maryland).

The Financial Needs Analysis (FNA) is a 100 % purely marketing tool used by Primerica and other companies like State Farm and Country Financial to show «gaps» in your insurance coverage and investment plan to help the agents begin to find areas to sell you their products.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

• Perform month - end consolidation activities such as accounting for foreign branches and cash flow entries • Oversee the development of monthly management reporting packages including identifying critical forecast gaps • Perform in - depth analysis to ensure completeness and accuracy of statistical data • Evaluate correlation among statistical data and summarize findings across clients and products • Analyze both current and past financial data and performance to help make informed decisions for the future • Explore investment opportunities and provide feedback to management to help them decides which ones to explore further • Create and maintain effective communication with key members to provide information regarding financial closings and deliverables • Research and prepare variance analysis and explanations and report deliverables

Guttmacher's analysis shows that if all other types of safety - net family planning centers had to fill the gap by serving all those currently obtaining contraceptive services from Planned Parenthood, women would find it considerably more difficult to obtain care.

Combined with our analysis about the role of marital quality and health practices in engendering health disparities by marital status and the spousal age gap and the results of supplementary analyses showing that 77 % of surviving spouses in age heterogamous unions is the younger spouse, this finding lends support to the view that having an older spouse may have adverse effects on the younger spouse's health (Drefahl, 2010; Klinger - Vartabedian & Wispe, 1989; Rose & Benjamin, 1971).