Sentences with phrase «than the lowest performers»

We found high performers were 116 percent more likely to stick with the company than low performers.

On average, they made about 35 percent more than low performers and 27 percent more than core performers.

I'm never sure that I haven't forgotten something,» high performers were 21 times less likely to agree than low performers.

I disappoint myself and others because I lose track of important commitments,» high performers were 88 times less likely to agree than low performers.

In science, the bottom 10 per cent of performers score lower than the lowest performers in the top - performing countries.

Successful salespeople use terms that inspire confidence like «certainly,» «definitely,» and «absolutely,» five times more often than low performers.

Not exact matches

Under Welch, the firm downsized more than 100,000 workers in five years, one strategy being to dump the lowest 10 percent of performers.

That low - key, always - on, super-skilled guy on your team probably adds more value than anyone but gets far less praise and attention than more volatile or less reliable performers.

Sotheby's has been a strong performer in the stock market recently, gaining more than 138 % in value after hitting a low of $ 19.13 in mid-February last year.

It's no wonder that 90 % of top performers are high in EQ and people with high EQs make $ 28,000 more annually than their low EQ counterparts.

Low - bidder Triangle Talent Inc. agreed to book the 2009 fair's musical performers for $ 48,500 — 10 times less than what the state paid Live Nation Worldwide in a no - bid deal.

They gave online dating sites the lowest satisfaction scores Consumer Reports has ever seen for services rendered — lower even than for tech - support providers, notoriously poor performers in our ratings.

Every year, there is at least one performer who competes a weight class lower than he or she should in order to get a win.

But progress is generally much larger in math than in reading; in fourth grade than in eighth grade; in eighth grade than in twelfth grade; for African American and Hispanic students than for whites; and for low performers than for high performers.

As examples, he points to Rocketship, a group of schools in California serving low - income students that credits their high achievement in part to a daily two - hour computer lab; Carpe Diem, a top math performer in Arizona; and Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 percent.

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.»

While these background factors can affect all students, among low performers the combination of risk factors is much more detrimental to disadvantaged than to advantaged students.

Students who have skipped school at least once in the two weeks prior to the PISA test are almost three times more likely to be low performers in Mathematics than students who did not skip school.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

I would add that true growth models — rather than «growth to proficiency» ones — encourage schools to focus on all students instead of just their low - performers.

In responding to the test question above, low performers were identified as being less likely to report that they would not go ahead and buy the item, and more likely than the high performers to report that they would try and borrow money or buy the item with money earmarked for something else.

Oregon won federal approval Wednesday for its plan to judge schools differently — and mete out different consequences to the lowest performers — than has been required under the No Child Left Behind law.

According to PISA, the United States placed significantly below the average for member - nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for mathematics — and significantly worse than the OECD distribution at both ends of the assessment spectrum, with more low performers and fewer high performers.

The report also shows that the degree to which advantaged and disadvantaged students attend the same school (social inclusion) is more strongly related to smaller proportions of low performers in a school system than to larger proportions of top performers.

On average, poorer students are still 3 times more likely to be low performers in science than wealthier students.

But more than three times that rate, or 46 percent, of low performers left.

«I like the attention is moving now toward more of the great schools rather than just focus on closing down low - performers,» Lake said.

Although pilot teachers did not indicate that they were working harder or were more innovative than comparison teachers indicated, they were more likely to view teaching low - performing students as an opportunity to demonstrate their teaching ability, and less likely to view teaching low - performers as «a burden.»

Disadvantaged students in the United States were 2.5 times more likely to be low performers than advantaged students.

According to Hubspot, top performers salespeople are up to 10 times likelier to use collaborative words and phrases than low - performers.

No Toyota Auris Touring Sports engine is a strong performer — this car is more about comfort, practicality and low running costs than driving fun

It's a capable performer in its own right, and it has the added benefit of a lower price and a back seat (even if it's more of a parcel shelf than a real seating area).

In urban environments, the Vue Green Line is an adequate all - round performer: handling is tighter than that in the 2007 model, while throttle response at low speeds is passably brisk.

In fact, every top performer in this modest asset allocation class suffered losses of more than 20 % in 2008, except VWINX, which has highest Sharpe, Sortino, and Martin ratios, as well as lowest downside deviation and Ulcer Index.

One consequence of low dispersion, in other words, is that the gap between the best and the worst performers is smaller than it would be if dispersion were higher.

This SSD has read / write speeds of 530 / 510MB / s respectively, and IOPS speeds of 92K / 83K read / write, meaning it's only about 10 % slower than a top performer like the Kingston or the Samsung, while coming in at a much lower price.

And, despite the lower cost, it's an even better performer than the first generation, with microphones that do a better job of hearing your voice commands over music playback or background noise.

Weak performers produce 33 % less than the average employee, and low performance can be induced by the lack of an effective onboarding process.

That remains a tiny share of their ranks, but it's more than twice the share among the lowest performers and more than four times the share of middle performers, those closing between $ 1 million and $ 10 million.