Sentences with phrase «performance gains make»

Our use of proficiency rates, an aggregate measure of school performance, distinguishes our work from other recent studies that examine the performance gains made by individual students.

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«We served more customers more often, achieved our best comparable sales performance in six years, gained share in markets around the world and made tremendous progress with growth platforms such as delivery, mobile order and pay and Experience of the Future.»

«Our second quarter performance exceeded our expectations, driven by a return to growth for Coach, sales gains at Stuart Weitzman and the contribution of Kate Spade as we continued to make progress on the brand's integration,» CEO Victor Luis said in a statement.

He notes that while the tools available for identifying raw talent made gains with performance - measuring software and online recruitment tools, the results of these searches has hardly improved.

Gain insights on your device performance alongside others and help make the connected world a better place.

Are there any areas where you believe there are still gains to be made in terms of environmental performance?

Another reason to start with the big Frenchman is to make the most of the confidence our striker will have gained with his performance and well taken goal for France last week.

While it was a difficult time, the Club committee can take comfort in knowing that it paid performance dividends; the two Manchester Men's teams moved up a league — and the committee members have gained invaluable experience of making difficult decisions and seeing through change.

Of course, chances are this is just a case of Renault looking for a way to get a simple boost up to the performance levels of Mercedes and Ferrari, having failed to make many gains over the course of the hybrid era.

The 21 - year - old swimmer from Americus, Ga., had made great gains in recent months, and her performance at the trials, in which she set American records in the 50 - and 100 - meter freestyles and won the 100 butterfly, was stunning to some observers.

«For us, it was more paramount to change the engine and make sure we took maybe the performance gain than sort of just have the straight - out speed and go off whatever qualifying we would have qualified,» Dixon said.

Rojo made his return from injury playing for the U23; s, gaining some much - needed match fitness, then returning in the UEFA Champions League against Basel, following that with another good performance in the 4 - 2 victory over Watford in the Premier League on Tuesday evening, conceding a penalty in the second half which saw the home side score twice in seven minutes.

Last year the Tories made a net gain of four councils, in an unexpectedly strong performance for the party which controls the bulk of local government in England.

If you take an overall view of Labour's performance they seem to be holding their own, but not making any significant advance — of the 164 local by - elections so far this year (up to August 11th) Labour have made a net gain of 2 seats.

Below him, stand - out performances from Jim Murphy and Sadiq Khan have meant a shuffling of the pack at the top of the table, while in the bottom half, Liam Byrne and Tessa Jowell have made substantial gains.

What makes this study unique is that it's the first to incorporate a «train for transfer» approach — essentially a training intervention designed to have participants practice performing real - world prospective memory tasks in simulated everyday settings and assess whether the cognitive gains transfer to successful performance at home.

That's because, believe it or not, we know of one training system, called RP - 21 (Rest - Pause 21) that when properly used, will allow you to train for strength, performance and aesthetics at the same time, and make astonishing gains in all three aspects.

This 2 - DVD set shows you how to use Joint Friendly Strength Training exercises to spare your joints, work around sensitive spots and still make gains in strength and performance!

Providing that you are nailing the basics, then supplements can help your performance in the gym, lead to greater gains, and make life more convenient.

Too many carbs may make you sluggish and contribute to fat gain though, while too few can cause muscle loss and sub-par gym performance.

By using the right supplements, you can make sure that you are creating the absolute best environment possible to see significant gains in strength, speed and performance.

Even just pain can derail your performances on numerous big lifts, limiting your ability to make muscle and strength gains.

In order to reduce soreness and aid recovery (while still making performance gains), begin the day with an easy recovery jog.

In 2013 Michael Bay tried to make a real movie: the underrated «Pain & Gain», a Miami crime comedy with actual performances and a satirical bite.

In general, VAMs factor in the gains the student was expected to make based on past performance, and in some cases, control for elements such as peer characteristics and background, including poverty level and family education.

Our fundamental findings from an analysis of the 3rd - and 4th - grade data for these two years indicate that the performance of students identified for retention, regardless of whether they were retained or exempted and promoted, exceeded the performance of low - performing students from the previous year who were not subject to the retention policy; and students who were actually retained made the larger relative gains.

That comparison makes it possible to tie student performance gains to the effectiveness of a particular teacher.

The gains made by 4th and 8th graders do not translate into higher levels of performance once students reach the age of 17.

Looking at gains rather than levels of achievement also adjusts for the fear that performance pay will make all teachers want to teach the highest - achieving kids.

Elementary and older students» knowledge of American history has improved in recent years, but while younger students also have made gains in civics, performance in that subject in the upper grades remains flat, test results released today show.

One indication comes from the information in our results about the gains in performance made by schools where the student - faculty ratio decreased over this same period.

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

In Massachusetts, we have made measurable progress in performance, although in many cases these gains have been incremental and are beginning to level off.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

As for academic performance, Sawgrass has been making big gains in both math and reading, both overall and for its lowest - performing students.

It is probably not a coincidence that the one state that has outdone the others in its efforts to reform its schools has made outsize gains in student performance.

In this podcast, Paul Peterson analyzes two new reports on Michelle Rhee's performance as D.C.'s Schools Chancellor and describes his new findings on the gains made by D.C. students.

Performance Trends of Top Students» by Robert Theaker and his colleagues, and elsewhere — have shown that high achievers made lesser gains in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era than did low achievers.

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

Test results showed that the lower - performing students made the most gains, while the average students performance were the same.

the school has failed to demonstrate, over the three consecutive year period for which accountability determinations have been made pursuant to this subdivision, at least a 25 point gain in its performance index for the «all students» group in each English language arts and mathematics measure for which the school is held accountable; and / or

Businesses, charities and schools have all paid attention to the success, and terms such as «marginal gains» became commonplace, seeking to understand and emulate the approach and mentality required in order to make the critical performance difference.

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

First, we made a straightforward comparison of the average test - score gains in classrooms run by TFA and non-TFA teachers, controlling for a variety of factors known to influence academic achievement, including students» backgrounds, the students» previous performance on the TAAS, characteristics of their schools, and characteristics of their classmates.

While interest in judging school performance based on the gains individual students make over time is high, the best way to do so is not even part of the current debate, one veteran testing expert argues.

This interpretation could account for both the gains in relative achievement made by students in K — 5 and K — 6 schools prior to entering middle schools and the superior performance of K — 8 students relative to their peers in middle schools.

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

The program was filled with outstanding student performances and reports on the impressive progress this highly diverse district has been making in achieving academic gains for all students.

Students across our state are making significant gains in academic performance, and we are seeing real progress closing the achievement gap among students of color.