Sentences with phrase «prior performance»

To test this, we made a second set of comparisons that adjust for differences in the background characteristics and prior performance of incoming students.

Each year is treated as a fresh start, and even if information about prior performance is available, it may be seen as largely irrelevant to the task at hand.

I have also reviewed my professional resume and prior performance appraisals for the past five years to further assess my transferable skills inventory.

If we want to measure a learner's prior performance as the basis for comparison with his or her current performance, this is an ipsative assessment.

By controlling for a wide variety of other characteristics, including the students» own prior performance, our analysis is able to estimate the likely effect of desegregation within the school.

Match prior performance.

Local report cards, teacher and parent observations and prior performance on state assessments also are taken into consideration for such placements, said Lewis, who co-chairs the curriculum committee for the state Council of School Superintendents.

But, like that New Yorker reviewer commented, the performance kind of feels like a compound of some of her much stronger prior performances.

Jackson, Nielsen, and Travolta recycle prior performances, but Travolta — God knows why — chose this film to bulk up to fighting shape, perhaps to justify his increasingly unjustifiable paycheck.

Value - added models generally use statistical methods to isolate the impact of a factor of interest (like being taught by a particular teacher) on an outcome (like a test score) by mathematically removing the effects of other factors (like student family income or prior performance levels).

Trustee fund additions exhibited lower prior performance than non-trustee additions, and the probability of adding a trustee fund was less sensitive to performance than the probability of adding a non-trustee fund.

8) You can include phrases from prior performance appraisals, letters of commendation and letters of recommendation.

* Prior performance does not guarantee future results.

Specifically, we calculate growth for schools based on math scores while taking into account students» prior performance in both math and communication arts; characteristics that include race, gender, free or reduced - price lunch eligibility (FRL), English - language - learner status, special education status, mobility status, and grade level; and school - wide averages of these student characteristics.

Research by the Education Policy Institute has shown that, once the data are controlled for prior performance, grammar schools do not actually improve results, even for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

demand @ (Adds background about company's prior performance, analyst comment; updates share price)

a scheme to defraud investors and potential investors in MSMB Healthcare by inducing them to invest in MSMB Healthcare through material misrepresentations and omissions about, inter alia, the prior performance of the fund, its assets under management and existing liabilities; and then by preventing redemptions by the investors through material misrepresentations and omissions about, inter alia, the performance of the fund and the misappropriation by SHKRELI and others of fund assets; and

We've all read about bitcoin's meteoric rise over the last 12 months, but much less has been written about its prior performance.

In financial analysis and planning, we look at past or prior performance to help form our beliefs and outlook for the future.

But I'm a fan and like they say in the stock market, prior performance is no guarantee of future returns.

Trent deserves huge credit for his prior performances in the competition, notably a stunning free - kick goal against Hoffenheim, but it'd be huge pressure to place on the shoulders of someone still learning the arts of the game.

At the dawn of what would be her 36 - year teaching career, the experience made her powerfully aware of the value of high expectations and positive reinforcement, regardless of students» prior performance.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

While phase - out cohort students did better with respect to some of these outcomes than expected, based on their background characteristics and the prior performance trend at their school, students attending comparison schools also registered gains.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

The analysis compared each student's prior performance to project his or her future test scores.

Thus, this research design allows us to isolate the effects of the incentives in IMPACT from the effects of differences in prior performance.»

The classroom observer might be aware of the teacher's prior performance, and this may color her observations.

For a description of the TN School Success Measure calculation and the prior performance of current ASD schools comparable to other schools across the state, click the link above.

ILP goals are based on students» prior performance and parent and student input.

Authors, more specifically, questioned «whether VAM really does remove the effects of factors such as prior performance and [students»] socio - economic status, and thereby provide [s] a more accurate indicator of teacher effectiveness.»

Researchers controlled for factors including student background and prior performance.

These documents describe what they call an objective teacher evaluation process that is based on student test scores, takes into account students» prior performance, and arrives at a score that is able to measure teacher effectiveness.

Prior performance is not a guarantee of future results.

The accident of their prior performance evaporated.

Prior performance is not a guarantee of future results and there can be no assurance, and investors should not assume, that future performance will be comparable to past performance.

First, this prior performance post (which left me neck & neck with my benchmark) is worth reading — it lays out my entire performance rationale & methodology (NB: I specifically exclude dividends & FX gains / losses from my returns), my performance benchmark (a pretty arbitrary average of the ISEQ, Bloomberg European 500, FTSE 100 and S&P 500), plus an additional audit / scrubbing of my performance figures for consistency (which lowered my returns marginally).

Indeed, I have no doubt you'd be happier if we didn't criticise your rush to judgements and misrepresentations of other people's statements, but overall I think it's better if people are made aware of the credibility of prior performances.