Sentences with phrase «national comparison data»

In each section, ZERO TO THREE has provided national comparison data as well as suggested sources to find information for your state.

Still, the North Carolina state legislature has long asked for national comparison data to better understand how students might need to improve, says Garland, which is something Smarter Balanced would give them.

Not exact matches

Expert Market, a U.K. - based product comparison site, calculated the pay gap between genders in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., using wage data from the National Women's Law Centre.

A new analysis done exclusively for Poets & Quants by PayScale, which collects salary data from individuals through online pay comparison tools, shows that the MBA — even from schools that lack global or national caché, delivers hefty seven - figure income over a 20 - year period.

Once again, we tap into Zillow Group's wealth of data and use a data set that includes mortgage affordability, rental affordability, and price - to - income ratios for the five most populous US cities with comparison to the national median.

In an increasingly competitive investment landscape, the ability to interrogate market data flexibly and consistently can allow apples - to - apples comparisons across global, national or even neighborhood markets, providing investors with the tools to uncover value where few others may be looking.

A search of the literature during the 1980s and 1990s identified seven studies with definitions and criteria that permitted comparison with the national Australian data.

National perinatal data and data from National Women's Hospital, Auckland were used for comparison.

There's certainly evidence that upstate New York is struggling — for instance, Moody's has cited data that «indicate a stalling economic recovery in upstate New York» — but given the available statistics, it's hard to do a national, apples - to - apples comparison to determine what region is faring the worst in the recovery.

In comparison to the influenza surveillance data collected by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of the People's Republic of China, the data from iThermonitor and Thermia revealed influenza outbreaks an entire month earlier.

«But our comparison of national data from the NHIS with data from the EHDIC study provides a more nuanced picture of the factors underlying these behavioral differences and suggests that the disparities found at the national level may be a function of social and environmental differences.

«But it's critical that we move beyond making these comparisons solely based on national - level data in order to consider the role of confounding factors such as socio - economic status and segregated living environments.»

(As always with polling data and reporting subgroups, some caution should be taken when making comparisons of subgroups having smaller sample sizes — and hence, larger margins of error — than the total national sample.)

A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data.

Washington — Efforts to provide state - by - state comparisons of student - achievement data moved forward last week with the announced formation by the Council of Chief State School Officers of a planning group for a new, expanded National Assessment of Educational Progress test in mathematics in 1990.

The main benefit of using the NFER surveys is a comparison with national data to help with improvement planning.

But the comparison may be misleading, it says, because states differ dramatically in the way public schools receive funds, and private revenue given to charter schools is largely absent from the national data.

«The High School Benchmarks report, and other reports from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, are critical comparison points for NCAN and our members,» said Bill DeBaun, Director of Data and Evaluation, National College Access Network (NCAN).

State of Our Cities: Profiles of Education Performance Around the Nation provides comparable education data on more than 100 cities across the country and allows users to make comparisons at the state, national, and global level so that mayors, policymakers, and the public can engage more vigorously in education decision - making in their local communities.

By comparison, the National Education Association, using unadjusted data, ranked California 43rd in spending in 2010 - 11 but in the 30s in other years.

The NEA data tends to be consistent with the official release from the National Bureau of Statistics and thus more appropriate for inter-annual comparison.

Figure 3: Comparison of Global Heat Content 0 - 700 meters layer vs. 0 - 2000 meters layer, from the National Oceanographic Data Center.

While the above illustrates the challenges associated with comparing «raw» data taken at stations to the long - term time series for locations, the Bureau can show some comparisons at the national scale.

To start, we collected data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), including both for - profit and nonprofit schools, ensuring an equitable comparison of all institutions.

→ School Counselors understand the basic concepts of results - based and data - driven school counseling programs through sampling, methodology, and analysis to provide reports on school profiles and student outcomes in comparison with the ASCA National Model believing that school counseling programs should achieve demonstrable results.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study investigated treatment fidelity and working alliance in the Parent Management Training — Oregon Model (PMTO) utilizing longitudinal data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse study (Forgatch & deGarmo, 2011; Ogden & Hagen, 2008), and investigated how these relate to children's externalizing problem behaviors, as reported by parents and teachers.

CEDS is a national collaborative effort to develop voluntary, common data standards for a key set of education data elements to streamline the exchange and comparison of data across institutions and sectors, including early learning data standards.

To assess the impact of home visiting programs without the significant investments of dollars and time, states can use various data sources to create comparison groups, such as data from administrative databases, state or national surveys, or Medicaid.

3 While the primary focus of this publication is on results from the 2002 NATSISS, relevant data comparisons are also made between this survey and both the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS) and the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS).

Comparisons with national census data showed that the sample was overrepresented by non-religious participants.

Until then, the most useful comparisons are of national data for single projects and of regional cost and value differences.