Sentences with phrase «on quality benchmark»

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Similarly, some review sites offer detailed customer ratings on metrics such as service, value, quality, returns and shipping, which can also be used to benchmark performance.

Self - impose a moratorium on polls about religion for a sufficient period that the savings could be used to conduct a high quality poll with a high response rate in order to have a benchmark against which to compare other results.

On a practical level, it means coffee buyers (importers, roasters, and consumers) will have some objective benchmark (the Q coffee score) indicating the quality of the coffee, as well as the flavor profile.

FAST EASY EFX and EFE are ideally suited for extended gamut printing and are well on the way to becoming the flexible packaging industry quality benchmark.

We all need to calm down on the «sell Jack», «Jack is crap» etc etc and reflect how much our quality has improved if he is now the benchmark for a squad player who will have difficulty breaking in to the team.

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, director of accreditation programs at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a benchmark of quality.

As a possible guide for parental quality benchmarking, P&G research finds U.S. babies get their diapers changed on average 6.3 times daily.

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point remains on warning by its academic accrediting agency even as the school has improved all but one of the five quality benchmarks it failed last year, according to a status update made public yesterday.

The benchmark of a great physique is generally measured on a few aesthetic qualities, some being arms and probably the most prominent, the abs.

The Health & Safety Executive's Tackling the health and safety myths statement supports this view, advocating: «Those running school trips need to focus on the risks and benefits to people — not the paperwork» and choosing a provider with an LOtC Quality Badge is one way of benchmarking effective risk management.

Quality standards: A set of agreed - on benchmarks that after - school programs identify as being important to their success.

Because teacher retention and quality are not the only factors that influence student outcomes, Han also looked at the effects of unionism on an important education attainment benchmark: high school dropout rates.

Also, education expert Linda Darling - Hammond and an international team of researchers just finished up a three - year study examining how countries that outperform the U.S. on internationally benchmarked tests provide high - quality teaching to every child.

The law put a much greater focus on quality in charter school authorizing, for instance by mandating the closure of any charter school that fails to meet academic or financial benchmarks for three consecutive years.

She also commented on the mediocre quality of Common Core's English language arts / reading standards in grades 6 - 12 and their lack of international benchmarking:

After the plans became available for public review, organizations like Bellwether Education Partners, the Collaborative for Student Success, Alliance for Education, National Council on Teacher Quality and the Brookings Institution reviewed the submissions to understand their overall strengths and weaknesses, and to determine whether elements like educator equity and benchmarks for federal accountability were present.

A new report on primary school teacher quality released by the Center on International Education Benchmarking finds high - performing education systems in Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, and Shanghai have very different approaches to elementary - level teacher training.

Additionally, instead of making teacher tenure an earned benchmark based on demonstrated quality of instruction, as teachers and policy organizations across the country strongly have advocated, AB 934 now doubles down on making tenure a time - based employment decision.

As the benchmark for quality, the program uses The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), which centers on the processes that take place in classrooms: student - teacher interactions (academic and social), relationships and the implementation of the curriculum.

The new benchmarks raise the bar by focusing on policies that more directly support continuous improvement of classroom quality.

Current benchmarks were designed to help states build programs, focusing on resources and policies related to the structural aspects of public preschool — elements needed for a high - quality program but not fully defining one.

However, since the analysis was based on self - report by the campuses of the quality benchmarks, the district noted some may not have been reported correctly or understood by the survey respondents, for example the presence of medical and vision screening services.

Public pre-K programs providing salary parity maintain higher spending per pupil and higher quality standards, based on NIEER State of Preschool quality benchmarks, without sacrificing enrollment compared to states that pay pre-K teachers far less.

Building on the first report, which looked at the variation in quality among pre-kingdergarten programs in the Houston Independent School District, this report found that there did seem to be a positive connection between test scores and quality benchmarks for some groups.

The 11 cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania through 2012 have been popular among families seeking alternatives to the traditional public schools, but their quality has been called into question because most of their students have been unable to reach state benchmarks on math and reading tests.

We were in the upper tier of states, meeting nine out of 10 quality standard benchmarks on a well - regarded rubric from — guess who?

Get comprehensive, hands - on instruction to create and deliver quality formative and benchmark assessments in MasteryConnect.

This study serves as an industry benchmark for new - vehicle quality after ninety days of ownership, and the results are based on actual owner reports about how satisfied they were with the quality of their new cars during the first three months of ownership.

Historically, the Mercedes - Benz S - Class is the benchmark against which all full - sized luxury production sedans are judged on all criteria from the quality of leather trim to the suite of next generation technology on offer.

GM, the world's largest automaker, has steadily improved its score in the J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study (IQS), a benchmark industry study on quality that polls owners during their first 90 days of ownQuality Study (IQS), a benchmark industry study on quality that polls owners during their first 90 days of ownquality that polls owners during their first 90 days of ownership.

The all - new Kia Cadenza will set new benchmarks for cutting - edge design, interior quality and contemporary luxury when it goes on sale in...

The 2016 Civic Sedan benefits from the most extensive and ambitious redesign in the 43 - year history of Civic, a global development effort led for the first time by Honda's U.S. R&D team, which set their sights on creating the world's best compact - class car with benchmark - setting levels of quality, fuel efficiency, interior spaciousness and fun - to - drive performance.

YA seems no longer bound by strict genre lines or pegged below a certain benchmark of quality — Kephart noted that YA novels are taking «more risks than ever with voice, structure [and] form,» and Weiss argued that the generally high quality of YA writing, coupled with increased interest on the part of adults, is facilitating a «leveling of the difference between high and low culture.»

I'm starting to think about writing my next novel and this is one of those books that when you consider it as a benchmark of quality is either bracingly, or terrifyingly, high, depending on how you are feeling when you sit down at your laptop in the morning.

By utilizing premium quality components, tuning and tweaking techniques, expert engineering, and their trademarked Hyperclocking process, Velocity Micro has created a $ 999 gaming PC that crushes benchmarks without crushing the wallet, perfect for the frame rate hungry gamer on a budget.

The Vector is able to top our 3D gaming tests as well, garnering top marks in Futuremark's 3DMark Vantage test and earning top scores on our Crysis test (101 frames per second at medium quality, 59 fps at very high quality) and on the Lost Planet 2 benchmark test (97 fps middle quality, 48 fps high quality).

The Sony Tablet S boasts great streaming video quality, a full sized SD slot, in the benchmarks it achieved a result that «bests all other Android tablets on the Sunspider browser performance measurement??

I assume something similar is going on here, since the MPT data for this biotech stock fund benchmarks it against «BofAML Convertible Bonds All Qualities.»

Three factors: issue selection (including investment decisions on seniority / subordination, covenant protection, maturity, and bond versus CDS exposures), sector weighting, and quality tilt typically contribute the majority of any excess returns relative to the benchmark.

Portfolio construction is driven by bottom - up stock selection decisions made on the basis of our evaluation of a company's valuation, quality and other factors as described above; this process is not influenced by benchmark weights.

Historically, the S&P China A-Share Quality Value Index has outperformed the S&P China A BMI (the benchmark) on an absolute and risk - adjusted basis.

The research was based on six parameters: perceived quality of a city, arts and culture and entertainment, prosperity, infrastructure, diversity and the surprisingly modern benchmark of online articles and recommendations.

Benchmark quality surf lessons held on our daily choice of the best surf beaches in the region of Itacaré, including daily transportation by boat or van / jeep, and full surfing equipment (all surf board types and shapes provided, plus rash guards, spring suits, leashes, wax, hats, and carrying straps).

Beach Buggy Racing and Riptide GP2 made their home console debuts on PS4 in June 2015, but can Riptide GP: Renegade improve upon the quality of Riptide GP2 to become Vector Unit's current benchmark?

The person will be part of the team defining and driving the gameplay vision in our projects while providing benchmarks for quality expectation, creative designs focused on usability and originality, and work as a communicator towards other disciplines and teams.

Beyond underscoring just how powerful a role location plays in shaping perceptions, this argument is specious as it assumes that a nebulously defined standard of quality is the only benchmark on which legal services can and should be judged, and implicitly concludes that a retail firm can't measure up to its full service downtown firm counterparts.

He went on to lay down a benchmark holding that «where... the quality of the conduct said to constitute harassment is being examined... Courts are well able to recognise the boundary between conduct which is unattractive, even unreasonable, and conduct which is oppressive and unacceptable.

In this inVOICE issue we'll talk about the importance of a quality invoice, provide some statistics on current quality benchmarks for the industry, and briefly about outsourcing.

UnitedLex helps our clients focus on industry benchmarks and identify ways for our clients to «do more with less» while maintaining quality and mitigating risk.

With a Nexus 6P on hand for comparison's sake, Doe has revealed lots of juicy Pixel details — including benchmark scores, camera quality, overall performance, and more.