Sentences with phrase «measures account for differences»

That is, assessing programs with value - added measures is easier than it is with test scores alone because the value - added measures account for differences in the students that teachers teach.

Not exact matches

We can account for this difference by measuring employment growth relatively to the overall level of employment in each country.

This accounts for about $ 5 billion of the difference between the two measures of spending.

Although interpretation of earnings data remains difficult, due to methodological differences in the construction of the various measures (for details see Box A, Statement on Monetary Policy, February 2002), the rebound is evident in both national accounts and financial reporting - based estimates.

The Bank of England has switched to targeting the harmonised Consumer Prices Index (CPI), and the inflation target was reduced from 2 1/2 to 2 per cent to account for the difference between the old (retail price index) and new measures.

Societal assumptions and their cultural consequences can account for most of the actually minor cognitive differences measured between the sexes.

In addition, to address the possibility that physicians» age may not fully account for the differences in clinical experience between female and male physicians, we further adjusted for physicians» years in practice as measured by years since completion of residency.

While quantitative input measures show little impact, several measures of institutional structures and of the quality of the teaching force can account for significant portions of the immense international differences in the level and equity of student achievement.

Yet that seems to be only part of the story: Dr. Jerrim said he was surprised to discover a considerable gap in access to selective colleges and universities even after accounting for differences in academic performance as measured by grades or standardized tests.

The potential for these focused improvement plans to make a difference in the quality of student learning is highly dependent on the degree to which local educators are able to align local curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices with the external measures against which they are being held to account.

Third, the current formula does not adequately account for differences in education costs across districts or across states, as they use current state expenditures to measure costs.

Critics point out that such tests measure students on just one day of the year and do not account for external factors or differences in learning that might influence student performance.

While test vendors provide estimates of split - test reliability, these measures do not account for potentially important day - to - day differences in student performance.

However, this is a flawed measure as relatively little competition for teachers occurs between states and state rankings fail to take into account differences in the labor markets across states.

As for the differences in water temperatures, that can be easily be accounted for by differences in the tools used to measure water temperatures.

Except and unless you accept the premise that all observations are completely useless because someone is able to quibble over their details, follow through the math, compare with the original works, and you still come up with much too little error to account for the 22 % -25 % differences seen over the past quarter millennium and the maximum CO2 level measured in the past 60K - 85K years and extrapolated for the past 10 - 15 million years.

If you know the standard - errors of the various data - point (i.e. global mean temperature) estimates, we can check if it's statistically significant via a difference in means test, while accounting for correlation in estimator distributions (it should be, unless NASA can't measure at all, which I sincerely doubt).

The measure of damages used in the Livent case was the difference between Livent's value when Deloitte should have resigned (when it discovered irregularities) and Livent's value at the time of insolvency, reduced by 25 per cent to account for contingencies or trading losses, which were too remote to make Deloitte liable.

Population average models were used to account for the longitudinal study design and correlation of repeated measurements, and an interaction term between maternal education (our socioeconomic measure) and age was included in order to examine whether differences in health inequalities by age were statistically significant.

Hierarchical linear modeling39 was used to examine intervention group differences in cortisol levels at waking and bedtime as well as in slope cortisol levels across the day, following analytic procedures used previously.5 Hierarchical linear modeling accounts for the nonindependence of repeated measures by modeling multiple data points as nested within individuals, which further allows for missing data.

3 The effects shown here are statistically adjusted (using regression covariates) to account for any pre-program differences between counties in the outcome measure over the five - year period prior to intervention delivery, as reported in Prinz et al. 2016.

A separate line - tracking task was administered to measure motoric / attentional factors that could account for group differences in performance.

Although high EE in staff is associated with more negative perceptions and interactions, staff may be less overtly hostile in their interactions than relatives, so measures need to take account for this potential difference.

Still, comparisons of REIT director compensation to that of the rest of Corporate America don't account for the differences between how REIT success is measured.