Sentences with phrase «new measures of»

The MCAI included two new measures of credit availability as part of the monthly release: the Conventional Mortgage Credit Availability Index and the Government Mortgage Credit Availability Index, with historical data back to 2011.

Expanding Home Visiting Research: New Measures of Success (PDF - 291 KB) Pew Charitable Trusts (2013) Highlights key findings from research, sponsored by the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, to build the evidence needed to inform policymakers» decisions and to advance effective practice in home - visiting programs.

The NorVold Abuse Questionnaire (NorAQ): validation of new measures of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and abuse in the health care system among women

New measures of quality focus on rich language and responsive communication.

It also seeks institutional reform and new measures of accountability to ensure the safety and protection of other young athletes.

It is important because new measures of water vapor in the stratosphere and upper troposphere are causing consternation.

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.

With new helioseismic data and new measures of the Earth's reflectance, we can usefully separate and constrain the relative roles of the net sunlight's two components, while probing the degree of their linkage.

A complete streets approach changes the way every day transportation decisions are made; changes design guidelines; educates and trains everyone on the new approach, and uses new measures of success.

CAP notes that, «carefully choosing which new measures of school quality or student success to use is no small task.

Our current work combines new measures of program quality, innovative approaches for detecting complex performance outcomes, and the synthesis of existing research to inform instructional design.

The new law requires states and districts to create comprehensive data dashboards; states to design systems that identify schools for improvement using new measures of school quality or student success; and districts to develop improvement plans based on school - level needs assessments.

The author analyzed the ESSA plans that 16 states and Washington, D.C., submitted to the Department of Education, including updated plans, as of August 1, 2017.32 The analysis organizes the new measures of school quality or student success that states use in their school classification systems into four categories: early warning; persistence, other than four - year or extended - year graduation rates; college and career readiness; and enrichment and environment indicators.

Accordingly, states must ensure that they can disaggregate their new measures of school quality or student success to use them for school ratings.

The bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA) ushered in a new way to improve K - 12 schools.1 ESSA promised states the opportunity to create more holistic school classification systems using new measures of school quality or student success — without losing sight of academic achievement.

Three new measures of pupils» progress are to be introduced to hold head teachers and ministers to account.

The review also says more data should be published to give a rounded picture of a school's performance, including new measures of the progress of lower - attaining pupils.

If states and districts do decide to adopt new measures of learning mindsets and skills, though, they should refrain from applying sanctions or rewards in response to a school's performance.

CAP notes that, «carefully choosing which new measures of school quality or student success to...

Polikoff concludes that the research community needs to develop new measures of teacher quality in order to «move the needle» on teacher performance.

«Because of the opportunity and flexibility ESSA provides, states are stepping up with innovations, new measures of school success, and interventions to meet the needs of their struggling schools,» said NASBE President and CEO Kristen Amundson.

We can capture teachers» effect on student learning through new measures of students» future academic success.

Using the full population of all first - year undergraduates enrolled at Northwestern between fall 2001 and fall 2008 (over 15,000 students in all), we empirically generate two new measures of teaching quality — one an indicator of inspiration (the rate of «conversion» of non-majors to majors) and the other an indicator of deep learning (the degree to which a professor adds lasting value to students» learning that is reflected in success in future classes).

A coalition of education, business, and technology organizations is calling for new measures of the skills needed to succeed in a fast - paced global economy.

Hill's primary work focuses on developing new measures of mathematics teaching quality, and using these measures to inform current policies and instructional improvement efforts.

In particular, we use existing research about how much a high level of achievement boosts the earnings of an individual worker, combined with our new measures of the average achievement levels of workers in each state, to gauge the contribution of differences in achievement to differences in income levels across states.

In the future, states could add other layers and incentives to its funding model, linking new measures of success to additional levels of funding.

But as we turn to new measures of school quality including production of college and career ready students there is new space for advocates to research and promote the benefits of school counselors.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

Population aging could peak by 2040 in Germany and by 2070 in China, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE, which combines new measures of aging with probabilistic population projections from the UN.

He says, «In these data, we apply our new measures of aging that take into account changing life expectancy.

In the last decade, IIASA researchers have published a large body of research showing that the very boundary of «old age» should shift with changes in life expectancy, and have introduced new measures of aging that are based on population characteristics, giving a more comprehensive view of population aging.

As new measures of academic performance appear, experts stress that quantitative indicators are only part of what counts as scientific impact.

OU researchers compared these new measures of migration with environmental cues that are thought to be used by birds to adjust migration timing.

More recently, the study of happiness furthered the debate in public policy, as many governments brought up the necessity for new measures of social progress.

This ranges from the use of House of Commons speeches to trace ministerial responsiveness (Eggers and Spirling, 2014), to new measures of political ideology based on 100 million observations of financial contribution records (Bonica 2014).

Comparable measures of credit risk derived from credit default swaps have declined by even more (see «New Measures of Credit Risk», Reserve Bank Bulletin, July 2003, for a discussion of these measures).

Our new measures of core inflation are all below 2 per cent presently, weighed down by excess capacity in the economy.

New measures of external demand for Canadian exports have been constructed, which better take into account how Canadian industries are positioned in GVCs.15 Our staff have also constructed new measures of Canada's effective exchange rate that better capture Canada's competitiveness, not just relative to our export markets but also relative to third countries (Chart 5).16 This analysis contributes to a better diagnosis of Canada's loss of competitiveness.

These steps include: efforts to simplify prospectus requirements for retail vanilla bonds and ease the personal liability of company directors; improving market transparency through the RBA's publication of new measures of corporate bond yields; the lengthening of the government bond curve; and the listing of certain fixed - income securities on the Australian Securities Exchange.

CNBC Rapid Update will offer new measures of how much an economic report changes the outlook on Wall Street for US growth forecasts.

Six hundred million may have found a new measure of freedom in 1989, but one billion Chinese experienced a crackdown.

Whitehead thus wants to secure for temporal creatures a new measure of autonomy, freedom, and self - sufficiency, and at the same time relieve God of the function wrongly imputed to God, of being an oppressive ruler of the world who governs with force and not with the attractive power of love.31

The outcome of each struggle was a new measure of liberty which marked another lurching step toward the promise of freedom Americans had made to themselves.

Consensus and accuracy in accounting studies of decision making: A note on a new measure of consensus

Vijay Day With a decisive victory in some of the toughest conditions ever at the Masters, Vijay Singh earned his second major title — and perhaps a new measure of respect

Psychometric support for a new measure of authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting practices: Cross cultural connections.

Labour wants a new measure of child health including mental and dental health.

That is helping the mayor with what we're calling his «SAT score,» a new measure of how the de Blasio administration is doing, which is much like the Consumer Confidence Index.

A team of psychologists — Dr Thekla Morgenroth and Professor Michelle Ryan from the University of Exeter and Professor Cordelia Fine and Anna Genat from the University of Melbourne - devised a new measure of risk - taking including activities that women might more typically pursue such as going horseback riding or making risky purchases online.