Sentences with phrase «measures like value»

Nonacademic indicators like school climate or Social Emotional Learning, and next - generation achievement measures like value - added or growth calculations are key facets of many state plans under the new Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA (the federal law replaced No Child Left Behind in 2015.)

In addition to analyzing overall ratings, we looked at individual measures like value - added data and observation scores — even scores for specific skills.

Not exact matches

In our culture that values the «stuff» we can see and measure, like how many awards, titles, fancy cars, and you know, fill in the rest of the goodies that map success, we often forget to factor in the price of well - being and rich relationships.

We measure the impact social media has on e-commerce by looking at metrics such as conversion rates, average order value, and revenue generated by shares, likes, and tweets.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation, central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat national currencies.

Instead, tired but deeply rooted measures often include things like producing X number of content assets or resolving customer problems within X minutes, instead of helping customers truly maximize product value.

The problem is, traditional measures like consumer spending or GDP underestimate the value of this market now, because digital goods like the music industry for example, are «cannibalizing» assets, such as the CD players or record companies of old.

The best leaders I work with are implementing programs like OKRs (objectives & key results) or a version of V2MOM (vision, values, methods, obstacles & measures) popularized at Salesforce.com.

She says the app doesn't monitor social media posts «nor does it attempt to measure qualitative characteristics like character, honesty, or moral value.»

At Fiji, Robbins offered some insight into what Jones» daily email updates look like, saying, «he sends me a checklist of what we measure, everything from his NAV [net asset value] to his [portfolio] weights, what's happening in his body, to his focus, to ratios of risk - reward that we're measuring, and then he does a narrative for me.»

I like to measure the value of people within your circle of influence with something I call social currency.

That's because financial assets include both stocks and bonds, while the red line features outcomes for stocks alone, so unlike measures like market capitalization to corporate gross value added, the chart below has a bit of «apples and oranges» at work.

However, the dark side of social media is that likes, comments, shares, retweets, favorites, followers, friends and subscribers become a way to measure our value, rather than our profile's performance.

Accordingly, Stapp is careful to distinguish between (a) attributing definite spin values in more than one direction to a particle like the neutron and (b) asserting that if the spins of certain pairs of such particles are or were to be measured in this or that direction, a specific mathematical relation will or would be found to hold, on a statistical basis, between the spin values of the members of the pairs.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Like so many of us, Muscato had to learn the hard way that how we feed our babies is not a measure of our value as mothers.

If you were a local school board member would you like to enter into a teacher removal legal proceeding knowing (1) Pearson's tests are flawed, (2) NYSED's use of test results is inappropriate, and (3) major professional groups like the American Statistical Association have stated that value added measures can do great harm?

There is a danger that, if that is properly recognised, those critics who would like to see (mainly US) platform providers taxed on a significant share of their revenues from outside the US will be disappointed — or, if it is not, the Government will have been tempted into measures that move beyond the value creation principle.

At least 31 states use the system New York's board is proposing, a «resource - based relative value system» which tries to qualitatively measure how much medical procedures are worth, based on factors like the amount of time they take to complete, and the cost of the materials used to perform them.

The multimeter can also measure continuity and diode testing with beeping alerts, and has functions like data hold and maximum value hold.

These include the development of a biochemical sensor that can continuously and accurately measure different substances released by the organ - like system, as well as enhancements that allow the use of multiple physical sensors, which monitor features such as temperature, oxygen levels, and pH values.

The measured value of the particle shows that the universe itself is unstable and — in perhaps a billion billion years — will fail just like everything else.

By measuring you and your potential companions on the truly important things in life, like shared values and visions, we bring you one step closer to lasting happiness.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Yet the enduring value of YES Prep and charter school efforts like it may ultimately be measured in outcomes elsewhere: Will they effectively feed the reform efforts at struggling schools like Hogg and the Academy?

Granted, there are mechanisms in place to evaluate teacher performance, but many of these value - added measures feel more like punch lists than professional reviews.

Given these results, a modified two - step value - added model may be a workable compromise for states and districts that would like to implement a proportional growth model but also seek to comply with the federal guidelines on growth measures.

She says: «The value of communications and marketing can be identified in a business plan and should be clearly measured and accounted for just like other critical parts of a business.»

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

In addition, research showing that value - added measures outperform other teacher characteristics at predicting a teacher's impact on student growth in future years — and that they also capture information on teachers» impacts on longer - term life outcomes like teen pregnancy, college going, and adult earnings — served as an important justification for differentiating teacher effectiveness.

In addition, our analysis does not compare value added with other measures of teacher quality, like evaluations based on classroom observation, which might be even better predictors of teachers» long - term impacts than VA scores.

If the results of a legislation like Prevent are measured by the «number of people referred», we can have trouble giving value to this number — especially considering the social complexities involved.

Growth measures — like «value added» or «student growth percentiles» — are a much fairer way to evaluate schools, since they can control for prior achievement and can ascertain progress over the course of the school year.

Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.

This approach is different from using value - added measures of standardized tests as a significant component in an evaluation and separates the San Jose system from one favored by reform groups like StudentsFirst.

Value - added measures, like medical screening tests, are relatively inexpensive [9], but some would argue not very accurate.

Mark Anderson: It seems like other nations are way ahead of us in talking about collaboration rather than a tunnel vision upon accountability based on value added measures.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.

Jessica Holloway - Libell and Audrey Amrein - Beardsley released a meta - study this July which cites overwhelming evidence that schemes like Value Added Measures (VAM) are completely unsupported by research.

But at least the airport taxi drivers of 2024 will get a bargain when cars like this are collapsing in value due to punitive measures against diesel.

«We are redefining the Honda Accord for a new generation of buyers by bringing something unexpected that challenges the idea of what a mainstream sedan can be,» said Jeff Conrad, senior vice president of the Automobile Division of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «Even as we advance core values like great driving dynamics, safety performance and efficiency, the distinctive design of this all - new 2018 Honda Accord will help it appeal to both head and heart in equal measure.»

«Even as we advance core values like great driving dynamics, safety performance and efficiency, the distinctive design of this all - new 2018 Honda Accord will help it appeal to both head and heart in equal measure.»

He also explains why he likes this measure of value over others and what it's saying today.

For most other non-financials, I like to see steady returns on capital of 20 - 25 % + over the last decade (Value Line measures this by debt plus equity, or total capital including intangibles).

Aside from price ratios, wise investors like Graham move beyond value ratios and look for additional measures of safety.

That's why I like to measure the market using Graham & Dodd's price - to - earnings ratio, named in honour of the co-authors of the value investing bible Security Analysis.

I have always liked value stocks, of which this is a good measure.

All measures like the growth in tangible book value per share become considerably more complicated to evaluate when a company grows via a series of mergers.