Sentences with phrase «measured against the average»

While these fees seem extremely low, they must be measured against the average income of each person in the student's household who is working for pay.

Schools will be required to publish details of their pupils» progress, which will be measured against the average achievement level of all children in England in the same year group.

If measured against the average U.S. car mileage, it would increase carbon emissions the equivalent of adding 15 - 27 million cars to the road, an amount that would prevent South Korea from achieving its Paris climate commitments.

I presume your anomalies are measured against the average of the whole series, rather than the 1961 - 90 used by the Met Office?

Not exact matches

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

A: The pay - for - performance model measures the company's weighted average executive compensation percentile rank for its top five executive officers against the company's weighted average performance percentile rank within a group of 15 peer companies.

If the average US Catholic were really to measure their own personal beliefs against the various options, most would find they range somewhere from Episcopal to Unitarian.

He averaged a goal every 88.5 minutes in the Premier League, behind only Harry Kane by that measure, and sealed the title for the London club with a goal against West Brom last year.

Ultimately, it is best to measure a mom's milk production against her baby's needs rather than some average of women everywhere.

The index revealed both the House and Senate remain below average for the fifth straight Congress when measured against the historic baseline, said Lugar Center President Richard G. Lugar, a former U.S. senator from Indiana.

That is, there are no benchmark statistics against which to measure employees, so we don't know whether the score on a test is above or below or about average.

This enterprise led him deep into the relationship between economics, physiology, and longevity, where he analyzed variables such as the amount of food consumed by the average slave (or freeman) measured against the amount of work he produced.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

Jim Leivers, Oxfordshire county council's Director for Children, Education and Families, said: «The NEET scorecards are an excellent innovation, allowing us to measure our performance against the national average.

We developed a measure of how unusual the fluctuations in test scores are by ranking each classroom's average test - score gains against all other classrooms in that same subject, grade, and year.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

The suspension is a bit busy, while the engines only offer average performance, both measured against the clock and in avoiding the pumps and tax.

To protect against data theft, this version of the Venue 11 Pro is outfitted with a few security measures that make it safer than your average tablet.

It is based on their monthly income, and for higher earning debtors, in terms of a means test that measures the debtor's income against the average income for the state in which they live.

Index A published interest rate against which lenders measure the difference between the current interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage and that earned by other investments (such as one, three, and five year U.S. Treasury security yields, the monthly average interest rate on loans closed by savings and loan institutions, and the monthly average costs - of - funds incurred by savings and loans), which is then used to adjust the interest rate on an adjustable mortgage up or down.

For example, a large institutional bond investor may use the Industrial Bond Average as a benchmark against which to measure his or her performance in the bond market.

Indexes and averages serve as useful benchmarks against which investors can measure the performance of their own portfolios.

It is instead to be measured against the general experience in securities as measured by the Dow - Jones Industrial Average, leading investment companies, etc..

I have wondered for a long time why the Shadow Stock Portfolio's compound annual average return is measured against the VTSMX, rather than the NAESX and the DFSCX like you do when reporting monthly and YTD performance?

Scatter plot of the daily mean diffuse light fraction measured in Jersey (y - axis) plotted against Climax daily average neutron count rate (x-axis).

It is basically a measure of the expected deviation of all the runs used against the reconstructed average: Take a running «window» average over a «straight» portion of the temperature reference, so that the local deviation against the local mean is calculated (for our temperature record one could simplify by detrending the record from 1940's to 2000's and calculating a deviation).

The assimilation - weighted average of this discrimination against 13C, quantified as Δ13C [Farquhar et al., 1989], is routinely measured in the carbon - based remains of plants preserved as fossils, such as the highly durable leaf cuticle [Beerling et al., 2002].

The gender pay gap is now at a record low of 18.1 per cent and the online tool will show the gender pay gap by profession, so that the public can see how their job measures up against the national average.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

AO - 16 also cautions against using relative terms (such as high, low, good, fair, poor, strong, weak, or average) without providing a baseline to measure them against.