Sentences with phrase «most effective scores»

Ford's filmmaking is precise and artful, pairing minimalist but exquisite camerawork with one of the most effective scores of the year.

Not exact matches

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EFFECTIVE PITCHERS Whitey Ford put few batters on base (an average of 10 per nine - inning game) and even fewer scored on him (roughly 25 %) to make him the most effective pitcher in thEFFECTIVE PITCHERS Whitey Ford put few batters on base (an average of 10 per nine - inning game) and even fewer scored on him (roughly 25 %) to make him the most effective pitcher in theffective pitcher in the majors.

I'd argue that trading for an extremely expensive big man who makes your already - present, likewise extremely expensive big man worse is not a particularly good idea, particularly if it also denudes your team of the perimeter scoring that both players require alongside them if they're to be at their most effective.

No matter how you slice it, you can't run an uptempo offence with Giroud on the pitch and that means sideways soccer and an over-reliance on crosses into the box, thereby negating many of the very reasons Lacazette was on your radar in the first place... we simply aren't clinical enough from wide positions to continue with that approach, which is why many fans have been clamoring for a viable alternative to Giroud for several years... once again this isn't an attack on Giroud, he clearly has some tangible skills, but his mere presence on the pitch greatly impacts your tactical options... Giroud's weaknesses are simply highlighted by the way in which our offence now moves in a more horizontal than vertical manner, which allows most teams ample time to regroup defensively before a scoring opportunity even arises... a player of Ibra's or Benzema's ilk would have been far more effective as they had size, speed and the first touch capabilities required to for intricate link - up play... once again square peg in a round hole

I did some digging from the Arsenal.com live texts to see which Gunners have been the most effective at scoring from free kicks.

But big plays cover up mistakes, and even the most efficient offense is only going to be so effective when forced to take 12 snaps to score.

He most certainly must be a superb passer, but to keep today's increasingly complex and effective defenses honest, he must be able to score as well, even though he probably has a man 6» 5» or taller who is a 50 % shooter (and, therefore, known as the «shooting guard») sharing the backcourt with him.

Under Pep Guardiola the Germans are flying high, both in Bundesliga and Champions league in which by scoring 8 goals they stand as the most effective team, while on the other side, Germans defence didn't concede any.

In 2011, Carvalho helped implement a merit pay system — considered anathema to most teachers union officials, including Weingarten — that tied raises to teachers» evaluation scores and provided bonuses for highly effective teachers.

On Sunday, a top Cuomo aide cited a Newsday report as evidence that most Long Island school districts used union - endorsed scoring to «skew» results and «ensure that their teachers are rated only «effective» and «highly effective.»»

Recent research — most notably a 2013 project funded by software billionaire Bill Gates — concluded that student scores can be an effective evaluation tool.

After testing scores of samples taken from rice fields across the state, MSU scientists found that seed treatments are effective in managing the crop's most troublesome insect pests.

Contrary to popular belief (and much advertising), some of the most widely available and well - known multivitamin brands received low scores, meaning they are not very effective.

The latest findings revealed that eye makeup was the most effective in scoring dates.

But Gosling's most effective bit of borrowing comes in bringing on musician Johnny Jewel, the original choice to score Gosling and Refn's first collaboration «Drive,» and whose music permeates that film despite much of his work being dumped.

From stunning cinematography to an effective score and sound design, Hereditary might also be A24's most commercially appealing horror movie.

But the single most effective contribution on display is the diverse and unsettling score by Disasterpeace.

«Eating» is the film's most notorious sequence, and was I imagine very hard to score well, but Howard did so, musically conveying a range of emotions, using synth pan flutes to provide the inevitable, effective awkward feeling underpinning the longing and desire represented by the flute and violin parts.

Suburbicon, which is lensed by There Will be Blood's Robert Elswit (and boasts an effective score from Alexandre Desplat), is Clooney's most startling work behind the camera since Good Night, and Good Luck — and something of a return to form after the best - forgotten romp that was The Monuments Men.

One aspect of the movie that it's difficult to be disappointed with is the score, which is among the most effective of the slasher era.

While Danish cinematographer Dan Laustsen lenses Allerdale Hall in swampy greens and fiery reds (a tribute to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava), some of Crimson Peak's most effective tension - cranking scenes are scored not by composer Fernando Velázquez, but the monotonous pumping of an industrial clay machine.

Despite frequent use of Hans Zimmer's emotive score, The Dark Knight Rises is most effective during quieter moments of character reflection.

Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography is the true star of «The Revenant» with Ryuichi Sakamoto's original score the most effective use of music in film this year.

The basic Dolby 2.0 soundtrack contains a few shock sound cuts and effective ambient effects, but for the most part is pretty tame, and Giorgio Moroder's thumping score shines during key montage sequences.

Killers human and supernatural rampage through this impressive black box, as Jay Chattaway's gritty «Maniac» brings 80's NYC synth sleaze to Joe Spinell's sweaty mannequin lover, while Michael Convertino's strikingly original score to «The Hidden's» body jumping alien slug still stands as one of the genre's most bizarrely percussive and effective soundtracks, samples creating a sound that's violently otherworldly, which also capturing the haunted spirit of the relentless E.T. cop out to bring him in.

Moreover, the educators who are most effective in improving non-tested skills are often not the same as those who are most effective in improving test scores.

They show that the schools that are most effective in raising student test scores do so in spite of the strength of the underlying relationship between math achievement and fluid cognitive skills.

In most cases, he argues, claims of effective reforms are based on either a misanalysis of test scores or the selection of advantaged students into reform programs.

That is, these teachers who faced a dismissal threat surpassed most of the teachers whose scores were just above the «effective» threshold and therefore did not face the same incentives.

I found this kind of approach the fastest and most effective way to label language features for AO1 and then to score really good AO3 with in depth analysis and links to wider ideas and meaning.

The assessment has been so effective in predicting the most effective teacher candidates that Phoenix # 1 uses the composite score to screen out candidates who won't positively affect student growth.

Some have zeroed in on using student test scores as a way of measuring which teachers are most effective.

As The Times reported in a front - page story Sunday, some of the school's most promising teachers lost jobs, and many were replaced by more veteran teachers who were less effective at raising students» test scores in math and English.

Brian Davison, a parent of two Loudoun students, has said the scores are a better indicator of students» year - over-year progress and they would help administrators identify the division's most effective teachers.

From the abstract: Authors of this report find that «within the 30 states that [still] require student learning measures to be at least a significant factor in teacher evaluations, state guidance and rules in most states allow teachers to be rated effective even if they receive low scores on the student learning component of the evaluation.»

The analysis found that the portion of teacher evaluations that local districts solely control is heavily weighted in most Long Island school districts toward ensuring teachers to score high enough to get an overall «effective» rating.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

(Fla.) Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is driving legislation in Florida that would establish a «return on investment» index comparing education spending with standardized test scores — something supporters say would help school administrators, parents and the public better recognize the most cost effective programs.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

Yesterday Camden Public Schools, after four years of intense intervention, increases in school choice, and effective leadership, released its most recent PARCC scores.

Louisiana has used student test score data since 2006 to determine which teacher training programs are most effective.

It was that last portion that made the database controversial, because it would allow the state to link teacher and administrator records with student records and see which teachers appear to be the most effective at raising students» test scores.

Teachers in some districts are rated «highly effective» only if all or most of their students have gain - scores of «more than a year's worth of growth.»

Andreas: What picture do the scores paint for us about what the most effective education systems look like?

The most crucial finding was that the most effective schools, based on test score improvement over time after controlling for demographic factors, had developed an unusually high degree of «relational trust» among their administrators, teachers, and parents.