Sentences with phrase «measured on a percentage basis»

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In baseball, the Oakland A's used a single new statistic called on - base percentage to accurately measure a player's worth.

It's also important that traders don't measure profits based on percentages or pips gained or lost on each trade or based on the percentage account performance over xyz period of time.

The spread between the 2 - year note yield and the 10 - year note yield, a widely - watched measure of the yield curve, widened to 49 basis points, or 0.49 percentage point, from 41 basis points on Tuesday.

Judging is based on measured results which include advertising equivalent value of the campaign, percentage of the target audience captured in ticket sales, and return on investment for the event by increased revenue.

Based on the results, researchers suggest two new metrics, which should be standardized, for measuring OPO performance: evaluating donation percentage — the percentage of possible deceased - donors who become actual donors — and tracking organs transplanted per possible donor.

Even the Biggest Loser which has access to health professionals and personal trainers measure their contestants success base on the percentage of their weight loss (By the way, I love the show but I wish they would measure other stuff too).

I assume that they were measuring the relative percentages of saturated / monounsaturated / polyunsaturated fats in the blood sample on a % by weight basis.

However, common sense suggests that the weight assigned to ELL measures should vary based on the percentage of a school's students who are classified as ELL.

The union has also asked its members, «What percentage of your pay should be based on accurately measured student growth data?»

For example, Ohio adjusts value - added calculations for high mobility, and Arizona calculates the percentage of students enrolled for a full academic year and weighs measures of test score levels and growth differently based on student mobility and length of enrollment.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

The two new quality indicators are based on how charters performed on state accountability measures, including whether the state increased the percentage of charters receiving top ratings and decreased the percentage of charters receiving bottom ratings.

Poverty was measured based on the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price meals as well as income levels of area residents, the plan states.

Summary: Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, is calling on the federal government to stop measuring student achievement based on the percentage of students who score as proficient on standardized tests.

A school's score is based on a numerous factors, including student progress as measured by the average growth in state test scores (PARCC) of individual students from one year to the next, the percentage of students who scored College and Career Ready or Approaching on the PARCC, school attendance rates, and school re-enrollment rates.

The expected gain model does not take other factors like attendance or poverty into account, and only measures the percentage of a teacher's students who meet or surpass their expected growth scores, which are based on beginning - of - year tests.

Additional measures that have a critical impact on student achievement are reported only (not included in schools» ratings) such as access to quality state - funded preschool; half - day vs. full - day kindergarten; the percentage of first - year teachers; teacher turnover; teachers with certifications in their specialized area; career counselors / coaches; out - of - school suspensions; and whole child supports such as access to a school - based counselor or mental health services provider; nurse or health services provider; librarian / media specialist; and a family resource / youth service center.

While the APR is also expressed as a percentage, it measures the total cost of borrowing money on an annualized (yearly) basis.

To see how each city measures up, we ranked them based on the median household income and the percentage of residents who earned at least a bachelor's degree.

Based on the percentages provided by myFICO, the consumer division of the Fair Isaac Corporation, and the scale of 300 - 850, here is the range of points within each category, how your activity is measured and how you can improve each individual category.

APY stands for Annual Percentage Yield, a measure of the total amount of interest paid on an account, based on the interest rate and frequency of compounding.

Are there statistical measures that can do for quality investing what the on - base and slugging percentages did for the Oakland Athletics» performance?

For example, Feldman analyzed the quality of Supreme Court merits briefs using a composite of features such as passivity, wordiness, sentence length, and tone.63 He found that brief readability was positively associated with the percentage of brief language adopted in the opinion and that the association was highly significant.64 Similarly, Collins et al. analyzed the «cognitive clarity» and plain language of Supreme Court amicus briefs.65 They measured cognitive clarity using the dictionary - based Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program (LIWC), which relied on an index of categories that relate to cognitive clarity such as «causation, insight, discrepancy, inhibition, tentativeness, certainty, exclusiveness, inclusiveness, negations, and the percentage of words containing six or more letters.»

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