Sentences with phrase «produce measures of growth»

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Gross Domestic Product growth, which is, generally, the measure of goods and services produced in the economy, has hovered around 2 percent, not the 4 percent the Fed and other monetary experts believe is necessary for an economic expansion.

Figures released Friday on gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the goods and services produced in an economy — recorded sharp slowdowns in France and the U.K., while Spain and Austria continued to record strong growth.

According to figures from the Ghana Statistical Service, the last time the economy recorded growth below 4 percent was in 2000 when GDP, which measures the value of final goods and services produced in the country, decelerated to 3.7 percent.

FSB research shows that 44 per cent of small firms would take on more staff if the government cut national insurance, so such a measure would produce an environment for growth and help create much needed jobs.

Objectives for this lesson: * To understand what is needed to enable seeds to grow into grain which can be harvested * To be aware that grain produces flour which can be made into food we eat * To be aware that weather and the seasons affect the cycle of growth * To recognise the differences between the seasons * To measure seed growth * To observe, analyse and record what has happened to seeds * To communicate the results.

High school reform should include making sure that we are measuring the relevant skills; allowing states the flexibility to design systems that produce results; using multiple measures to assess achievement; allowing the use of growth models; including commonsense flexibility for students with special needs; involving educators in planning; and effectively addressing dropout rates.

More encouragingly, in Pennsylvania we found that the state's measure of principals» professional practice produced ratings that were correlated with our best estimate of the principals» contributions to student achievement growth.

(This pertained to the subset of principals for whom it was possible to produce a credible measure of their contributions to student achievement growth, because we could observe different principals in the same school in different years.)

On its website, the school claimed to be the top - ranked charter in Ohio for «value - added,» a measure of academic growth, referring to a 2014 report produced by a nonprofit organization, Battelle for Kids.

By producing a growth measure for each student that is predictive of performance on high stakes tests and, for the first time, deeply connected to instructional resources in the core curriculum, the strategic partnership gives educators more time and support to focus on differentiating instruction.

His critique is of the 2013 - 2014 Growth Model for Educator Evaluation Technical Report, produced by the American Institute for Research (AIR) that, «describes the models used to measure student growth for the purpose of educator evaluation in New York State for the 2013 - 2014 School Year» (Growth Model for Educator Evaluation Technical Report, produced by the American Institute for Research (AIR) that, «describes the models used to measure student growth for the purpose of educator evaluation in New York State for the 2013 - 2014 School Year» (growth for the purpose of educator evaluation in New York State for the 2013 - 2014 School Year» (p. 1).

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

Also of interest, Breedt produced a mapping of Nielsen BookScan measures of the pertinent territories in terms of unit growth in 2015.

It will be the first time I can truly measure the «organic» growth of my dividend producing portfolio.

Like leaders in Britain, France and a few other places, they want to move beyond the traditional measures of success — economic growth — to promote policies that produce more than just material well - being.

exactly... i recall seeing a graph produced from ice core samples in which the CO2 content of thousands of years past was measured against tree ring data... what it showed was CO2 levels rising 300 years after rapid vegetative growth (natural warming) and incidently the PPM of CO2 measured higher than current levels.

Among the many areas of concern are EU food safety measures targeted as trade barriers in a 2013 USTR report, including restrictions on imports of beef treated with growth hormones, chicken washed in chlorine, and meat produced with growth stimulants (rectopamine).