Sentences with phrase «more standard benchmarks»

However, where multi-task feature learning was applied, accuracy of predictions increased by 98 % relative to more standard benchmarks.

Not exact matches

Global stock benchmark provider MSCI has decided to delay including stocks listed in mainland China in its widely followed Emerging Markets Index, saying China has to take further steps toward making its market more accessible and closer to international standards.

The longer you benchmark or measure your progress to an irrelevant or outdated standard, the more time you waste and the more ground you give up to the competition.

Already - volatile markets swooned after Trump announced the tariffs, with the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index falling more than 1.3 percent that day.

More than 180 airlines are included in the five - star ranking system, which is widely considered the global benchmark of airline standards.

But before you send roses to your fund manager, consider this: The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up even more — 20.6 %.

The standards are more specific and provide quantifiable benchmarks that are similar to, but not as broad, as Smithsonian Bird - Friendly and Rainforest Alliance.

Altering the standards themselves — carefully developed new benchmarks in math, English and other subjects that demand students engage in deeper, more rigorous, higher - level thinking — should be off the table.

«PIRLS 2016 shows that 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark — the proficient standard for Australia — compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark,» Dr Thomson said.

According to Principal Jeffrey McClellan, if instructors are having difficulty coming up with a unit for a particular benchmark, industry partners have been helpful in brainstorming and explaining how particular state standards are used in their work, which results in more realistic capstone units.

The authors of Little to Gain would do early - childhood education a considerable service if instead they pushed aggressively for teacher education and professional development that enabled more teachers to meet Common Core benchmarks with the teaching techniques they favor, not demand that we «withdraw kindergarten standards from the Common Core so that they can be rethought along developmental lines.»

Rather than being a minimum benchmark, the standard challenges students to demonstrate more than just the basic skills expected for their year level (ACARA, 2013).

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark.

«By letting every state set their own benchmark, define their own standard and use their own assessment, combined with the requirement of 100 percent proficiency, they basically incented states to keep dumbing down and lowering their cut score in order to get more kids across the bar,» Weiss explains.

While curriculum experts like Bill Schmidt of Michigan State have concluded that Common Core math standards are similar to the highest achieving nations and more coherent than most of the state standards they replaced, Burris insists there is no research behind them and they are not internationally benchmarked.

Frequently, arguments in favor of maintaining this particular benchmark as the desired goal for American students and education institutions are couched in terms of establishing demanding standards so the United States becomes more competitive internationally.

A majority of school officials responsible for implementing the Common Core State Standards say the new national academic benchmarks are more rigorous than their previous state standards and will improve the skills of students, according to a new national survey released Wednesday.

Here come the new social - emotional standards to complement Common Core — because nothing says children have feelings more than benchmarks!

Other efforts to embrace Common Core State Standards include classroom assessments based on standards, student and parent conferences and MAP, the district's universal screener / benchmark assessment, to support more differentiated instruction and identify students for targeted supports.

When the screening scores indicate that 80 % or more of students are meeting the learning goals (e.g., benchmarks or standards) the core instruction is generally understood to be highly effective.

Great schools are more than books, buildings or benchmarks; they are more than standards, schedules or software.

Tamera Musiowsky - Borneman, a third grade teacher, tells New York City morning news show «Good Day New York» that teachers are continuing to work to ensure students can meet benchmarks of the more rigorous Common Core standards:

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After all, standards are more than just benchmarks of what kids should learn.

That means students and teachers will not be held to the stricter standards of Common Core, under which instructors face more stringent accountability and risk termination for under - performing pupils who do not reach specific academic benchmarks set by the program, for an additional five years later than originally expected.

It may be that some of the more common benchmarks in the district, including having teachers with at least a bachelor's degree, the provision of at least one meal and the use of some set of early learning standards, may not be the right ones or enough on their own to meet each student group's needs.

«More people are teaching to the benchmarks and standards they need to hit, not just what their expertise is,» says Linda Koory, the assistant principal.

The benchmark of excellence in achievement testing for more than 80 years, Stanford 10 provides reliable data to help measure student progress toward content standards and high expectations.

For instance, «internationally benchmarked» actually meant no more than that the committees that wrote the Common Core standards looked at the standards in countries that score well on international tests.

Grades are more accurate in that they are based exclusively on students» demonstrated mastery of state standards and benchmarks rather than a mixture of academic performance, extra credit, behavior, and work habits as is often the case in more traditional grading systems.

In other districts, teachers were more likely to reference the activities in which they engaged — for instance, conversations, reading, and writing — and less likely to speak explicitly about the standards and benchmarks themselves.

For the past three years, that's included a significant shift away from the state's traditional academic benchmarks and toward the Common Core, a set of more difficult standards.

The standards were an attempt to raise expectations by establishing a new set of rigorous K - 12 academic benchmarks, and the CAP analysis underscored the need for more rigorous standards, Read more about Do Schools Challenge Our Students Now?

Currently, there are several pieces of legislation (including HB 1518) that address incorporating SEL into more out of school settings and continuing the work of the SEL Benchmarks Group in developing standards and indicators to assess social - emotional skills in the classroom.

More recently, CASEL (the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) has been working with state education offices to develop learning standards (sometimes called «benchmarks») for SEL.

The new Toyota Corolla will do just that, setting a new technology benchmark in its segment and matching many more expensive models by coming standard with semi-autonomous driver aids such as adaptive radar - based cruise control, lane departure assist and autonomous emergency braking.

Source: Hyundai Press Release is on Page 2 2018 SONATA: DEFINING THE BENCHMARK FOR MID-SIZED SEDANS New Features, Technology and Hardware Blind Spot Detection with Rear Cross-Traffic Alert Now Standard Equipment NEW YORK, April 12, 2017 — The redesigned 2018 Sonata enters the market with a new look from the front, side and rear thanks to a «cascading grill,» a more assertive profile and an entirely new rear; showcasing a clean and handsome approach with reimagined, slim taillights.

The Venue 8 Pro maxed out the standard 3DMark Ice Storm Benchmark and netted a score of 8,830 on the more demanding 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme.

Metrics such as the standard deviation of returns and value at risk are more absolute - risk measures, while beta and the Sharpe ratio give a sense of risk / return versus a given benchmark.

The Standard & Poor's Index vs. Active (SPIVA) mid-2014 report says that more than 70 percent of actively managed funds lost to their respective benchmarks over the previous five years.

Standard names, choice universe, total return benchmarks and more.

That benchmark lies somewhere in the intersection between your savings objectives (retirement, education, a new car), the performance of widely - accepted benchmarks (the US Standard & Poor's 500 index, the DAX, the price of gold and more) and your investments.

According to new research from Standard & Poor's, in the past 5 years, more than 71 % of large - cap fund managers couldn't beat the S&P 500 index they're benchmarking against.

«Halo represents a standard of care and a commitment to companion animals that should be the undisputed benchmark for how we all treat the animals in our lives that provide us with love and companionship and make our world a much more interesting and joyous place to live,» said Lyskanycz.

International Rivers monitors climate - earmarked funds such as the Green Climate Fund to prevent large dams from entering project pipelines, promotes the use of strong social and environmental standards and technical benchmarks, and pushes climate finance away from a business - as - usual approach towards more resilient water and energy solutions.

Architects would benefit considerably more from reading this section of the book than by assuming they understand the Passivhaus Standard by way of the oft - quoted passivhaus energy consumption and airtightness benchmarks.

Aaron Street: Which I think a lot of people don't actually realize that there's a fairly standard industry benchmark, and that's more or less right around the norm for a solo or a small firm website.

One may already stop here to wonder whether the EFTA Court is not making its life too easy speaking of an interpretation of EEA law «in the light» of fundamental rights in the present case; a more thorough reasoning would have had to grapple with the scope of EEA law in the case: Only if Iceland was acting effectively within the scope of EEA law here the fundamental rights standards of EEA law apply under the EFTA Court's supervision; otherwise one could argue that the Supreme Court of Iceland's action ought to be judged against the benchmark of domestic fundamental rights and ECHR standards (compare the rich debate on the parallel problem in EU law which focuses on Article 51 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights).

So while its cameras may be excellent based on one benchmarking site's standards, the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro will need to do more to prove itself and to make US consumers wish they did have that choice after all.

+ Strong performance in all benchmarks + Stays cool during gaming and also benchmarks + Fast charging is supported + Fingerprint sensor is fast, but will require a press to wake up the device first + ZenUI 3.0 is intuitive and has seen a lot of upgrades over time, with a promising future of even more enhancements later + Great camera performance; easy - to - use camera with a lot of advanced features + Audio output is customizable, even for the loudspeaker and Bluetooth devices + AptX support promises better audio quality with supported devices + DTS Headphone: X will offer a better experience watching movies, simulating surround audio through stereo headsets + Support for both Google Daydream VR and Tango AR standards