Sentences with phrase «performance measure weights»

Using data from the Measures of Effective Teaching study, we conduct simulation - based analyses that illustrate the critical role that performance measure weights and ratings thresholds play in determining teachers» summative evaluation ratings and the distribution of teacher proficiency rates.

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The MSCI EM Index is a free - float - adjusted, market - capitalization - weighted index designed to measure the equity - market performance of emerging markets.

The S&P 500 ® Index is an unmanaged, capitalization - weighted index designed to measure the performance of the broad US economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.

The NYSE Arca Airline Index (XAL) is an equal dollar weighted index designed to measure the performance of highly capitalized companies in the airline industry.

Bonus amounts under our bonus plan are tied to overall corporate and individual performance, and the bonus pool for executive officers is based on our performance during the fiscal year compared to pre-established target levels for three equally - weighted measures: revenue, operating cash flow and non-GAAP income from operations.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a free - float - adjusted market - capitalization - weighted index that is designed to measure equity - market performance of emerging markets.

The MSCI EAFE Index is a free - float - adjusted market - capitalization - weighted index that is designed to measure the equity - market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a broad - based, market - value - weighted benchmark that measures the performance of the U.S.dollar - denominated, investment - grade, fixed - rate, taxable bond market.

The fund's overall Morningstar Rating measures risk - adjusted returns and is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3 -, 5 - and 10 - year (if applicable) rating metrics.

The ProShares UltraShort Utilities ETF provides 2x leveraged inverse exposure to a market - cap - weighted index that measures the performance of large US utilities companies.

They define a «performance gap» between the time - weighted (buy - and - hold) return and the dollar - weighted (actual investor average) return as the measure of investor timing ability.

The MSCI BRIC Index is a free float - adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of the following four emerging market country indexes: Brazil, Russia, India and China.

A: The pay - for - performance model measures the company's weighted average executive compensation percentile rank for its top five executive officers against the company's weighted average performance percentile rank within a group of 15 peer companies.

A: Performance measures, except ROA and ROE, are based on the weighted average of annualized 1, 2, and 3 year data.

MSCI All Country World Index ex USA — The MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ex USA is a free float - adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed and emerging markets that excludes companies based in the United States.

MSCI EAFE — The MSCI Europe, Australia and Far East (EAFE) Index is a free float - adjusted market capitalization weighted that is designed to measure equity market performance in foreign developed markets.

MSCI Emerging Markets — The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a free float - adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets.

The MSCI World Index (Net) is a free float - adjusted, market capitalization - weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets.

The Lipper Balanced Fund Index measures the equal - weighted performance of the 30 largest U.S. balanced funds as defined by Lipper.

The MSCI World ex U.S. Index (Net) is a free float - adjusted, market capitalization - weighted index that is designed to measure international developed market equity performance, excluding the U.S..

He measures the attractiveness of adding anomaly premiums to the benchmark portfolio by comparing Sharpe ratios, Sortino ratios and performances during recessions of five portfolios: (1) a traditional portfolio (TP) that equally weights equity, term and default premiums; (2) an equal weighting of size, value and momentum premiums (SVM) as a basic anomaly portfolio; (3) a factor portfolio (FP) that equally weights all 10 anomaly premiums; (4) a mixed portfolio (MP) that equally weights all 13 premiums; and, (5) a balanced portfolio (BP) that equally weights TP and FP.

Indices are a weighted measure of the daily performance of national stock exchanges.

MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) Index is a free - float - adjusted market capitalization - weighted index designed to measure developed market equity performance.

We don't have nearly enough experience with student performance measures to put as much weight on them as we are doing in the District and several other school districts.

In this case performance was a weighted average of the rider's times on various trials, a very specific measure that Postma intended as a measure of endurance.

Cathode performance is measured in energy per unit weight, called watt - hours per kilogram.

If we're measuring your force output of your muscles and we give you glucose about enough, within seconds, your performance, you can pick up a heavier weight.

In Taekwondo karate athletes, athletes lost similar body weight and body fat on both ketogenic (high fat foods) and non-ketogenic diets, but the ketogenic diet improved measures of athletic performance (finished 2,000 m sprint in less time and felt less fatigue in the Wingate test) and reduced measures of inflammation relative to the non-ketogenic diet

In Taekwondo karate athletes, athletes lost similar body weight and body fat on both ketogenic (high fat foods) and non-ketogenic diets, but the ketogenic diet improved measures of athletic performance (finished 2,000 m sprint in less time and felt less fatigue in the Wingate test) and reduced measures of inflammation relative to the non-ketogenic diet [40, 41].

Therefore, to sum up - if the goal is improving ANY measure of performance during weight loss, this is best achieved via a 10 - 15 % of reduction in calories across the board with no additional cardiovascular or non-specific activity.

States can accomplish this by measuring achievement via average scale scores or a performance index, and by giving substantial weight to a measure of academic growth for all students from one year to the next.

Overall, we find that parents value the teacher's performance on both the student satisfaction and achievement measures, but give more weight to the satisfaction measure.

And it could have helped avoid widespread conflict about the precise weighting of student growth in teacher evaluation systems and the adoption of additional tests to measure student performance.

Within a state's accountability plan, «substantial weight» would have to be given to quantitative measures, such as graduation rates and performance on state tests, with much less weight allotted to subjective measures, such as school climate and educator engagement.

Beyond the issue of measuring performance levels, the law and regulations offer states considerable discretion as to how much they weight growth versus status in their systems.

They show that 1) Different academic indicators measure very different aspects of school performance, suggesting that states should be allowed and encouraged to make full use of multiple measures to identify schools in the way they see fit instead of reporting a summative rating; 2) The ESSA regulations effectively restrict the weighting of the non-academic «School Quality and Student Success» indicators to zero, which is not in the spirit of the expanded measurement; and 3) The majority of schools will be identified for targeted support under the current regulations, suggesting the need for a clarification in federal policy.

Together, these two changes — measuring performance levels using a performance index with as many categories as possible and weighting growth more heavily than status — will go a considerable way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences.

One of Ohio's primary school - quality indicators is its performance index (PI)-- essentially, a weighted proficiency measure that awards more credit when students achieve at higher levels.

Execute contracts that include clear, measurable performance standards to judge the effectiveness of alternative schools, if applicable - requiring and appropriately weighting rigorous mission - specific performance measures and metrics that credibly demonstrate each school's success in fulfilling its mission and serving its special population.

Each school's performance page still shows the A-F status, but the grade is given a similar weight to other measures such as growth and composite test scores.

In contrast, both the weighting and matrix approaches could be used in these situations to combine separate measures of the separate performance elements.

The most common way to use multiple measures in teacher accountability is through weighted averages of value - added with other gauges of teacher performance.

• Using multiple measures to assess school performance, though which measures are used and how much they are weighted in an overall school assessment will be a key part of the discussion.

States will now have the responsibility of designing an accountability framework incorporating and giving the most weight to academic factors, including student performance on state assessments and high school graduation rates, in addition to state - chosen indicators of school quality or student success, which can include measures of educator engagement and school climate / safety.

A measure of student academic growth extracted from PARCC scores will be a 10 percent weight in the evaluation of some teachers, and skeptics have questioned whether the NJEA sees the PARCC resistance movement as a way to escape the use of student data in teacher performance reviews.

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

Each of these proposed rule revisions reflects conditions imposed by Texas's NCLB waiver — that student growth be measured at the individual teacher level, that student performance on state assessments must be included as a measure of student growth, that the student growth component must be weighted 20 percent in a teacher's evaluation, and that TEA ensure that local school districts using locally - developed appraisal systems use student growth at the individual teacher level.

The report is based on indicators that measure a child's success from birth to adulthood, such as birth weight, academic performance, teen pregnancy and family income level.

A measure that rates all teachers at the same level will carry no weight when it is combined with other measures to classify teacher performance.

ESSA dictates that when crafting accountability plans, states must assign indicators of academic performance «much greater weight» than other measures like class size and school climate.