Sentences with phrase «measuring average point»

By measuring average point scores rather than a single cutoff point, the new measure will also ensure that the achievement of all students is recognised equally, including both low attainers and high fliers.

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But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing two 1,000 - point drops in recent weeks, and having fielded many, many investors» calls, I was reminded that investors truly do not know how to measure risk.

With the economy either at or beyond full employment and the consumer price index — a measure of the inflation in consumer prices — at 2.1 percent, the real 10 - year interest rate is 0.4 percent, Jones explained, roughly 300 basis points below the historical average.

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

RBC's affordability measures fell between 0.5 and 1.5 percentage points but remained close to long - run averages, suggesting that affordability likely plays a neutral role in home buying decisions in the province.

At the same time, RBC's affordability measures for Saskatchewan fell between 1.3 and 0.8 percentage points, and stood close to their historical averages.

Measured in real terms, variable loan rates are as much as 1 percentage point below their average level over the past five years, and up to 2 1/4 percentage points below their average since the early 1990s (Graph 65).

On average, the harmonised measure has been 3/4 of a percentage point below the retail series, although the differential between these measures has widened recently.

On either measure of real cash rates shown here, they are well below the average of the second half of the 1980s; they have declined since their most recent peak in 1995, but remain above the low point reached in 1993/94.

In contrast, between late - 2011 and mid-2014, T - bill yields averaged less than 5 basis points, and the majority of the intervening market gains overlapped the roughly one - third of that span when our present, adapted measures would encourage a constructive outlook (largely on the basis of favorable market internals).

The FAO Food Price Index, which is a measure of the monthly change in international food commodity prices, averaged at 212 points in March 2013 — up 1 % from February 2012.

Last year at USF the Bulls averaged 43.8 points per game and ranked in the top 10 in offensive S&P + (a measure of efficiency).

CDC data indicate that on average, U.S. hospitals only scored a 79 out of 100 possible points on an overall measure of breastfeeding - supportive maternity care practices.

The average point score measure will reflect pupils» achievement across a wide range of eight subjects.

In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a robust and strong predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.

Her full - spectrum IQ, a measure of both functional and performance intelligence, was 78, a full 18 points higher than average for someone with the disorder.

Thus, scientists often make climate projections at coarse spatial resolution where each projected data point is an average value of a grid cell that measures hundreds of miles (kilometers) across.

At the beginning of the study, the average severity of the men's symptoms measured about 14.5 on a 35 - point scale commonly used by urologists; by the end, the average severity had declined by three points in the placebo group and just two points in the saw palmetto group.

Those who ate late had an average Body Mass Index (BMI — a measure of weight in proportion to height) that was at least a half a point higher than those who dined earlier.

I measure student achievement with a composite of grade - point average (GPA) based on student self - reports of their most recent grades in English, math, history / social studies, and science.

By this measure, the NCLB impact is equivalent to roughly two - thirds of the average annual gain in scale points.

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.

Consider another example from the same dataset in which high school students» cumulative grade point averages (GPAs) are related to their scores on Panorama's Growth Mindset scale, which measures how much students believe they can change their intelligence, behavior, and other factors central to their school performance.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

However, for Attainment 8 — which measures average achievement in GCSE across eight subjects — there will be no change: the attainment score gap of 11 points in 2017 will remain in 2021.

Until 2015, when Ofsted Data Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groups.

These three groups have improved by more than 20 percentage points since 2006 on the measure of five good GCSEs, while the national average has risen by 13.5 percentage points.

Because measures of test - score growth are less stable over time than measures of test - score levels, we average the points awarded to each school based on levels and growth over the previous three years.

That is, if the average teacher's SAT score at highly selective colleges is consistently 50 points lower (or higher) than that of the average student at such colleges, and a similar consistency holds for the other groupings, then we have a good measure of changes in the aptitudes of those entering the teaching profession.

This article reports that after two years of using Achieve3000, 12 low - performing schools in Georgia measure an average 173 - point increase in student Lexile scores.

Instead two new league - table measures will be introduced, examining the percentage of pupils who reach a set threshold in English and maths, and an average points score showing how much progress each child makes between the end of primary school and GCSE level in eight subjects.

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

Noting the lack of rigorous analysis of the role principals play in determining student outcomes, the study's authors measure how average gains in achievement, adjusted for individual student and school characteristics, differ across principals - both in different schools and in the same school at different points in time.

On average, there is 35 point difference in the students on - grade level as measured by iStation (the predominate early literacy assessment used in DPS) and CMAS English Language Arts.

Average Point Difference is a measure that compares a school's SBAC scale scores by grade to the state standard for «met.»

And crucially, Watanabe failed to note that, prior to Cobian's arrival in 2009, the school's score on the Academic Performance Index — the state's annual measure of test - score performance of schools and districts — was 717, or 23 points above the city's average.

The researcher uses a comprehensive data set of elementary and middle schools in the Philadelphia school district to explore the causal impact of attendance on multiple measures of achievement, including grade - point average and...

The effect of students» sense of personalization on their academic achievement was measured using standardized test scores and weighted grade - point averages.

A UW - Madison investigation of the program over the last four years shows participation in AVID / TOPS is correlated with higher attendance rates and grade - point averages and other measures of academic success.

In the decade after the reforms, the city's standardized test scores have increased by eight to 15 percentile points and moved the district from the bottom to almost the state average on many measures.

«Since implementing the DreamBox program, my students» scores on the MAP test (Measure of Academic Progress) have increased an average of 40 points!

It pointed instead to its value - added measure which it said was «significantly above the national average».

The question of interest is whether students» academic achievement (measured as grade point average) at Time 1 was related to the change in social acceptance over the course of the year.

Some preliminary research by Scott Behrens at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan, found a significant positive correlation between the habits of mind as measured on his survey and college grade point average (personal communication, April 4, 2005).

When we ran An3DBench, a test that measures graphics prowess, the Fire HDX scored 7,999, about 600 points above average.

Using our light meter, we measured an average brightness on the Prestige 7L of 176 lux, which is only two points higher than the 174 registered by the Kyros 7.

Weighing 4.6 ounces, the Kindle Oasis measures 3.4 mm thick at its thinnest point, and is 30 percent thinner on average compared to other Kindles.