Sentences with phrase «measures aggregate growth»

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In aggregate, the GDP measures the economic growth and health of the country.

Note the recent slowing of the aggregate real wage measure at the end of Figure 3, largely a function of faster inflation growth (the energy effect noted above) and some slowing of job and (blue - collar) wage growth.

The annual figure represents a clear acceleration from a figure of 3.9 per cent over the year to November 1996, and follows a period when this measure of aggregate wages growth had been fairly steady at around 4 per cent.

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

Paradoxically, however, the positive relationships between these self - reported measures of non-cognitive skills and growth in academic achievement dissipate when the measures are aggregated to the school level.

We examine three broad approaches to measuring student test - score growth: aggregated student growth percentiles, a one - step value - added model, and a two - step value - added model.

Economists Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann concluded that the two tests measure «a common dimension of skills,» and that the scores can be aggregated to form a single national - level indicator of cognitive ability predicting economic growth.6 Psychologist Heiner Rindermann referred to that common dimension as a «g - factor,» standing for general intelligence.

As districts grapple with implementing statutory requirements for annual evaluation, a common pain point has been the use of student growth and assessment data, including properly understanding what the legislation requires, which measures to use, how to aggregate growth measures for teachers and administrators, and reliably scoring for 25 % of an effectiveness rating.

By measuring individual student growth as opposed to aggregate proficiency, confounding variables are mitigated to an ignorable level since the exact same set of students is analyzed against an equated set of standards.

It's only useful for doing what it was original designed to do: Measure the aggregate production and consumption of a nation — which also happens to be a useful measurement of ecological throughput, the relative amount of resources used, given that despite hopeful claims that economic growth can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption and energy usage, this has historically and currently not been the case, and is unlikely to ever fully or even largely be the case.