Sentences with phrase «measures of growth across»

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All members will be among an elite organisation of business leaders that have demonstrated drive, passion, and dedication to achieving outstanding growth in revenue across Europe — a remarkable feat by any measure.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

Figure 2 compares Skechers to a number of other shoe / apparel companies in the «Athleisure» segment across measures of profitability, growth, and valuation.

However, measured labour productivity growth has improved over the past few years across a broader range of industries, following a period of quite weak growth (Graph 3).

Here are a couple of related ideas that are on my mind: ■ The fact that the UBC study measured higher percentage returns for BC at earlier stages of exit tells me that there is a problem with how the entrepreneurs and owners of tech startups (across all jurisdictions) perceive their chances of success through the later stages of growth.

They measured the growth and photosynthesis rates of trees at 13 rainforest plots across Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, comparing plots that were affected by the strong drought of 2010 with unaffected plots.

After painstakingly measuring 20,000 individual shrub rings through a microscope, the team created records of historic shrub growth from across northern Alaska.

To measure the mass and growth rate of these galaxies» active nuclei — the supermassive black holes at the galaxies» centers — the researchers used data from 12 different ground - based telescopes spread across the globe to complement the data from the Swift satellite.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

We combined all of the available earlier test scores into a single composite measure of quality and introduced it into statistical models that explain differences in growth rates across nations during the period 1960 to 1990.

Before pursuing a growth mindset campaign across schools, more is needed to understand the validity of the growth mindset measures and how to build growth mindset effectively at scale.

Of particular concern are states such as North Carolina that use scaled scores to measure students» academic growth longitudinally across the entire spectrum of student performancOf particular concern are states such as North Carolina that use scaled scores to measure students» academic growth longitudinally across the entire spectrum of student performancof student performance.

Reporting test - score levels will allow policymakers to clearly see absolute differences in achievement across schools, regardless of which growth measure is adopted.

To complete its work, the Task Force, with the support of staff from the Department of Education, reviewed the latest research on educator evaluations, examined systems in use both in - state and across the nation, and studied a range of issues related to the development of high - quality evaluation systems, such as observation protocols, growth measures, and special education considerations.

Research efforts are aimed, for example, at ensuring bias - free results, validity of technology - enhanced items, stability of measuring student growth across time, developing testing accommodations for students with special needs, software for computer - based testing, and technical support and scoring for local standards - based assessments in Iowa and the nation.

The local measures ties teachers to the growth of the students they directly teach across content areas.

While the Department will likely add more academic performance measures in the future, for 2014 officials also included the level of participation in state assessments, achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the general population as well as scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test used to gauge academic growth across the country.

Evaluations for all teachers and administrators must include measures of student growth, defined as learning taking place across two or more points in time, as opposed to one point in time for more traditional attainment measures.

«Today, the Assembly Education Committee rejected AB 1172 (Mendoza - D), a measure intended to limit growth of charter schools across the state.

A vertical score scale is needed to measure growth across multiple tests in terms of absolute changes in magnitude.

He spoke of benchmark exams that were used to measure the growth of learning across five subjects in his school.

Many in education circles have argued for growth measures in favor of grade - level snapshots of testing performance but Reardon's work provides perhaps the most comprehensive assessment of that growth across the country.

Building on research presented during the Kinder Institute's October KIForum, Reardon's working paper uses a measure of educational opportunity meant to track student growth from grades three through eight utilizing standardized test scores for roughly 45 million students in more than 11,000 school districts across the country.

Because student achievement levels vary upon entry across schools, student growth measures are better measures of the impact of a school on student learning than a proficiency rate or average scale test score.

For more than six years, Hanna Skandera has been a bold and innovative leader of New Mexico's public school system, transforming it from one lagging behind the nation to one that is experiencing remarkable growth across every objective measure of student success.

Statistical models designed to measure growth in student learning are rapidly being introduced and applied in districts across the country to measure the effectiveness of teachers and schools.

These models, which consider student growth on standardized tests, fall roughly into four categories: «value - added models» that do not control for student background; models that do control for student background; models that compare teachers within rather than across schools; and student growth percentile (SGP) models, which measure the achievement of individual students compared to other students with similar test score histories.

The CPS Assessment system contains 3 major types of assessments across all grades: Baseline to understand where students start the year, Formative to monitor progress over the course of the year, and Growth to measure progress by the end of the year.

First, measuring growth at the student level removes confounding factors (different groups of students, demographic shifts, cohort effects, differential standards across grade levels, etc.) that create variation in proficiency rates unrelated to school performance.

While the growth measures are designed to make sure schools focus on improving every student's test score, the metrics» have provided fuel for the critics of the A-F model across the ideological spectrum.

The research, conducted by an international team of scientists from a range of institutions, is presented in a series of seven academic papers that estimate change in land use and greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm expansion in the three countries, review the social and environmental impacts of palm oil production, forecast potential growth in the sector across the region, and detail methods for measuring emissions and carbon stocks of plantations establishing on peatlands.

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Other measures of caregiver - or parent - reported young child development exist or are under development, including the Early Development Instrument and the Index of Early Human Capability, which incorporate items representing each of these domains and are being used across high -, middle -, and low - income countries.1 Important complements to this form of measure are those assessments that can capture development in specific areas over time (e.g. growth in language or emotional skills).

Overall, the authors observed three patterns of unconditional growth across the eight measures of social — emotional development.