Sentences with phrase «results as a benchmark»

You know what qualities and traits have proven the most successful for your company, so you can use these results as a benchmark to measure new candidates against.

Not exact matches

As a result, the kingdom will have a 2.7 percent weighting in its main emerging stock benchmarks.

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

What disaster will result from the normalization of stupid lies and nonsense as a benchmark for debate over how society should function?

As a result, the CSI 300 Index and the SSE 50 Index, the two major gauges of mainland - listed larger companies, now trade at the highest levels relative to the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

stock benchmarks close out Friday little changed as investors express muted enthusiasm following strong corporate results, even from some of the market's biggest and most influential companies.

Whether it's to measure a campaign's results month over month, or to serve as guidance for the same or future clients, you need to establish benchmarks.

As a result, many actively managed funds struggle to keep up with their benchmarks.

Hortonworks, backed by venture capitalists including Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton, completed its own IPO on Dec. 12 and is a week away from reporting its first quarterly results as a public company.

Obviously, clear awareness of the current trend analysis is always better than a stand - alone result; nevertheless, the 50 threshold can be utilized as a simple benchmark to assess corporate activity.

Further, according to analyst projections, eliminating CSR payments would also result in a net increase in federal costs of $ 2.3 billion2 for fiscal year 2018 as the result of the increased benchmark premium also increasing the premium subsidies.

Ellis's conclusion is that «active» investment management (as opposed to «passive» management that simply replicates the results of benchmarks) is «no longer a game worth playing.»

As a result, ACWI tilts larger than our benchmark.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

As a specialist provider of proficiency services and reference materials, it also offers analytical benchmarking to more than 750 laboratories in 80 countries, providing independent assurance of accuracy and reliability in test results.

The Senegalese frontman has started the Toffees» past two games against Leicester City and Arsenal and pointed to the 2 - 1 win over the Foxes as the benchmark to return to winning ways and build a run of results.

These findings need to be interpreted with caution as it is difficult to categorize the results as positive or negative due to a lack of benchmark or norm.

In her first major environmental proposal, Nixon called on New York State to commit to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050 — a benchmark that has been something of a Holy Grail for activists concerned about the warming of the planet as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

Derived from self - reported statistics gathered annually by the Office of the State Comptroller, the result is a database of measures that taxpayers can use as benchmarks for evaluating local governments.

As a result, it provides the best benchmark so far for gauging when Homo sapiens originated in Africa, evolutionary geneticist Carina Schlebusch of Uppsala University in Sweden and her colleagues conclude.

Structural biologist Gaetano Montelione of Rutgers University in New Jersey agrees: «The results are valuable as a benchmark of what's possible,» he says.

Do you have any general benchmarks for me insofar as a timeline in which I should see results?

The result is so empowering, critics are treating the film as revolutionary, a historical event, a benchmark.

Schools can opt to engage in them for benchmarking against other schools, but this does not result in publically available «leagues tables» such as those associated with the MySchool website information required of Australian schools.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Testing is part of how families choose, but it should be used as a benchmarking tool, not to whip educators and schools with results that reflect a snapshot in time.»

As a result, Kentucky has increased from 27 percent to 33 percent students meeting three out of four ACT benchmarks for college readiness since 2011.

1990 ushered in the first - ever state - by - state results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress as well as the first - ever reporting of NAEP results according to newly established performance benchmarks.

As such the results could not be reliably used as a standard benchmark to measure progresAs such the results could not be reliably used as a standard benchmark to measure progresas a standard benchmark to measure progress.

Kevin Courtney, head of the National Union of Teachers, said a majority of teachers questioned the validity of Progress 8, as they believed the Key Stage 2 results used to provide children's prior attainment did not provide a reliable benchmark from which to measure.

As a result, the state will be expected to meet NCLB's lofty 100 percent proficiency benchmark next school year; schools and districts that don't meet that benchmark will be subject to a series of interventions.

But as the initial test results show, especially those at my school, we still have a way to go to ensure our students can meet these benchmarks.

By integrating STEM activities in lessons, teachers experienced successful outcomes, such as increased student engagement in learning, improved benchmarks and STAAR results, self - accountability, gaining trust, and becoming confident and competent.

Progress monitoring for students who score «well below benchmark» should be done every one to two weeks to examine progress made as a result of intervention.

Progress monitoring for students who score «below benchmark» should be done every two to four weeks to examine progress made as a result of intervention.

The ability of a highly qualified teacher to address the learning needs of all New Mexico's students, including those students who learn differently as a result of disability, culture, language, or socioeconomic status, forms the framework for the New Mexico Teacher Competencies for Licensure Levels I, II, and III - A Assessment Criteria Benchmarks.

Those making expected progress and exceeding expected progress is likely to meet national benchmarks for most groups... As a result of discussions in March, leaders have made changes to expectations for Key Stage 1 with increased average point score (APS) achievement set as an expectation for all pupilAs a result of discussions in March, leaders have made changes to expectations for Key Stage 1 with increased average point score (APS) achievement set as an expectation for all pupilas an expectation for all pupils.

The data, part of the benchmark test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that New York City fourth graders have made progress in closing the gap between their scores and the state and national results in reading, despite the higher percentages of poor and minority students in the city.

In addition to failing to fully deliver on earlier promises of digital tests for all students and more timely results, as with the national benchmarks (through agreed cut scores), other promises made by the Department of Education back in 2010 are still up in the air.

As a result, the benchmarks fail to provide enough guidance for districts designing systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

As a result of a differentiated literacy program and specific interventions, the percentage of underachieving students in the primary literacy program meeting grade - level literacy benchmarks rose from 55 percent in 2000 to 80 percent in 2003 (Evanston / Skokie School District 65, 2004).

A control group that takes a more standardized version could then be used as a benchmark to adjust results over time.

Under federal law, local educational agencies are required to give parents the option of transferring to another school inside the district when the neighborhood school falls into Program Improvement as a result of not meeting performance benchmarks.

Overall results of the study indicate that the RLT model is effective in training general educators to implement such interventions as the Benchmark Strategy Instruction Process, but they also show that «traditional in - service without any follow - up was not effective staff development, since none of the control group teachers consistently implemented the [intervention].»

As this post goes live, Indiana's state schools chief Tony Bennett is announcing the results of the Spring 2011 ISTEP + exam, the state's benchmark standardized test.

As a result, Tennessee will hold high schools accountable for students meeting the ACT college readiness benchmark and participating in early postsecondary opportunities, such as dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of studAs a result, Tennessee will hold high schools accountable for students meeting the ACT college readiness benchmark and participating in early postsecondary opportunities, such as dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of studas dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of study.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

This study serves as an industry benchmark for new - vehicle quality after ninety days of ownership, and the results are based on actual owner reports about how satisfied they were with the quality of their new cars during the first three months of ownership.

«Through research, we have determined that when purchasing a new vehicle, included maintenance and warranty rank low on the list of reasons why consumers consider a particular brand over another,» «As a result, we have benchmarked our competitors, reviewed our current offerings and have concluded the following modifications to align closely with our customers» needs and expectations,» it said.

As the benchmark results confirm, the Atom Z3745 has plenty of horse - power, hitting scores that are not too far off what we see on high - end tablet devices from Samsung that use more expensive ARM chips like the Exynos 5420.