Sentences with phrase «report measure of values»

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The two companies» combined enterprise value, a more comprehensive measure of total value than market capitalization, would value the merger at more than $ 20 billion, the Journal reported.

Noting that the value of tech stocks at the height of the dot - com bubble was many times the size of the current cryptocurrency market (with a total value of about $ 519 billion), Citi's report conceded that it may be a while before the crypto bubble bursts: «Bubbles can build in plain sight, be duly identified, and prove highly durable for a period measured in years.»

CBO's measure of before - tax comprehensive income includes all cash income (including non-taxable income not reported on tax returns, such as child support), taxes paid by businesses, [15] employees» contributions to 401 (k) retirement plans, and the estimated value of in - kind income received from various sources (such as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, and employer - paid health insurance premiums).

See Oxera Tax Advantaged Employee Share Schemes: Analysis of Productivity Effects, Report 1, Productivity Measured Using Turnover and Report 2, Productivity Measured Using Gross Value Added.

Whenever it is disclosed in the footnotes, we subtract the fair value of minority interests instead of the reported value for a more accurate measure of shareholder value.

We also provide dividend reports and calculate a company's forward - looking, cash - flow based measure of dividend health, the Dividend Cushion ratio, to offer a unique picture of the investment opportunity, from value through momentum!

In all studies, analyses with glucose AUCi, insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, and II values, with the exclusion of a possible outlier (which was defined as any data point beyond 2 SDs from the mean value), did not alter results, and therefore, the data for all subjects who completed all interventions are reported.

(7) instructs the shadow Sponsor Board and Delivery Authority and their statutory successors to apply high standards of cost - effectiveness and demonstrate value for money in the business case, to report back to Parliament with up to date costings and a realistic timetable for the duration of the work, and to include measures to ensure: the repair and replacement of mechanical and electrical services, fire safety improvement works, the removal of asbestos, repairs to the external and internal fabric of the Palace, the removal of unnecessary and unsightly accretions to the Palace, the improvement of visitor access including the provision of new educational and other facilities for visitors and full access for people with disabilities;

Limited information is available about whether and how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) factors the cost of measures into Hospital Value - Based Purchasing; if it does, these cost estimates are not publicly reported.

Approximately half of the students with anxiety or depression reported not having supportive relationships with their PIs, as measured in a variety of ways, including whether the students feel valued, whether their PIs have a positive impact on their mental well - being, and whether they feel that their PIs are assets to their careers.

«A VEGF cut of value of 0.5 ng / mL distinguished pancreatic cancer from cholangiocarcinoma and this measure is both 93 percent sensitive and 89 percent specific,» reported Udayakumar Navaneethan, M.D. of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

The thrust of this report is to demonstrate the value of having measures of soft skills that are simple and close to the classroom.

UPDATE — The LA Times coverage of the report contains a similar misinterpretation: «But the study found that teachers whose students said they «taught to the test» were, on average, lower performers on value - added measures than their peers, not higher.»

The same stance characterized the Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching report last winter, with its effort to gauge the utility of various teacher evaluation strategies (student feedback, observation, etc.) based upon how closely they approximated value - added mMeasures of Effective Teaching report last winter, with its effort to gauge the utility of various teacher evaluation strategies (student feedback, observation, etc.) based upon how closely they approximated value - added measuresmeasures.

The REF Shared Value Platform is a real - time, digital version of the REF Shared Value model, providing a practical tool for tracking, measuring, monetizing and reporting on the full value of ecosystem services and environmental restoraValue Platform is a real - time, digital version of the REF Shared Value model, providing a practical tool for tracking, measuring, monetizing and reporting on the full value of ecosystem services and environmental restoraValue model, providing a practical tool for tracking, measuring, monetizing and reporting on the full value of ecosystem services and environmental restoravalue of ecosystem services and environmental restoration.

In fact Ho (2008) argues if a single rating is going to be used for reporting on performance, it should be a measure of the average performance because such measures incorporate the value of every score (student) into the calculation and the average can be used for more advanced analyses.

Here's what the National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council wrote in a 2009 report to Education Secretary Arne Duncan about value - added measures (VAM):

[21] The MET study reports reliability for teacher value - added measures of about 0.3 to 0.5 when three years of data are used.

The preliminary report focuses on two measures of teacher performance: value - added analysis and student surveys.

Below, we report results of data analyses that shed more light on the issues created for value - added measures by tracking.

The well - known Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project funded by the Gates Foundation reports results from experiments that also address the validity of value - added at the middle and high school levels.

I believe every vendor of value - added models should report this information for every achievement test being used as a measure of «teacher effectiveness.»

It also explains why researchers and value - added vendors typically report confidence intervals for value - added measures that help quantify the role of random error and the uncertainty this creates about teachers» «true» value - added.

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.

In the same year, a policy report from the Brookings Institute, Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value - Added suggested that VAM should not be measured against an abstract ideal, but rather should be compared to other teacher evaluation methods to determine its potential usefulness.

Whether to include the race and poverty - status of students when measuring teachers is particularly contentious, writes Douglas N. Harris, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in a report on value - added models released this week.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

According to the report, «value - added models» refer to a variety of sophisticated statistical techniques that measure student growth and use one or more years of prior student test scores, as well as other background data, to adjust for pre-existing differences among students when calculating contributions to student test performance.

Right now they are wrong 26 percent of the time,» she said, referring to a 2010 report on value - added measures by Mathematica Policy Research that said there is about a 25 percent chance of an error if three years of test scores are used in the evaluation.

The preliminary report released Friday focuses on two measures of teacher performance: value - added analysis and student surveys.

The report, entitled «Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project,» reportedly gives the strongest evidence to date of the validity of the value - added model as a tool to measure teacher effectiveness.

CAP's report notes that the discussion of publishing teachers» names along with their value - added score (a measure of a teacher's efficacy, relative to other teachers in the group, in promoting student achievement) began when the Los Angeles Times published a report featuring the performance ratings for Los Angeles Unified School District teachers.

Read the full article here or check out our new report, Destination Known: Valuing College and Career Readiness in State Accountability Systems, for more information on the importance of good data in measuring student progress and success.

Kane and Cantrell concluded that the evidence suggests that value - added measures can be constructed to be valid; others described the report as strong evidence of support for this approach.

But Economics Professor Jesse Rothstein at the University of California at Berkeley reviewed the Kane - Cantrell report and said that the analyses in it served to «undermine rather than validate» value - added - based measures of teacher evaluation.

However, Lockwood and colleagues report high reliability for the each subscale and correlation between individual student's scores on the two subscales that is much higher than the correlation in the two sets of value - added measures.

The report notes that evaluations are most effective when value added scores are combined with other classroom measures, such as observations — which provide opportunities for school leaders and line managers to see teachers in action — and surveys of pupils about the quality of teaching they receive.

The reports published in The Times used a so - called value - added analysis to measure the performance of elementary school teachers.

A report that seeks to clarify four areas of value - added measures that can be used to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

One such «myth» he cites is that, «[t] here are measures on our state report card that correlate with demographics, but value added isn't one of them.»

The U.S. News & World Report rankings compare cars on the basis of safety, reliability and a consensus of industry experts» opinions, along with value — which is measured by a combination of a vehicle's five - year total cost of ownership and the average price paid for the vehicle at the time the awards are published.

By focusing on value firms, the benefits to financial statement analysis (1) are investigated in an environment where historical financial reports represent both the best and most relevant source of information about the firm's financial condition and (2) are maximized through the selection of relevant financial measures given the underlying economic characteristics of these high BM firms.

Clearly, some kind of quick - and - dirty statistical measure of value will have to be substituted for the usual carefully poring through the annual reports.

Appendix: Measuring Dollar - Weighted Average Returns The time - weighted or buy - and - hold return of a value fund is easy to calculate: The geometric average of its reported returns is what you would have earned had you bought in at the beginning of a period and never sold.

This reduces earnings per share but unlike machinery, most real estate actually increases in value with age, so the earnings reported by the company may not be a good measure of the stock's value.

This is invariably necessary b / c multivariate regression outputs (typically reported in tables of regression coefficients and associated precision measures such as t - statistics, standard errors, and stupefying «p - values») invariably defy meaningful interpretation by even stats - sophisticated readers.

Assuming that the bulk of the temperature records are min - max thermometers and measured and / or reported to the nearest deg F, then conservatively the measurement is a rounded value that is the midpoint from a uniform distribution the width of the rounding, 1 deg.

In addition, the final report of the Working Group's econValue project outlines economic value creation effects from renewable energy deployment, as well as how to measure these effects and policies to facilitate and optimize them.

Looking thru that report, in Table 3, one finds that the estimated number of counts when viewing deep space is about 13,460 for Channel 6, whereas the measured value for channel 6 is about 17,500 at 280K (Figure 7).

Measuring the Values and Costs of Experiential Education — Report of the Working Group on Cost and Sustainability (Alliance for Experiential Learning in Law), 7 Elon Law Review 23 (2015).