Sentences with phrase «than tracking points»

Using games for assessment is about more than tracking points.

Not exact matches

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

Tapscott points to funds with low fees that track stocks algorithmically rather than trying to beat the market using human investment managers» wiles as a case of the first.

The global economy isn't going to diminish in importance, but we're tracking — more anecdotally than statistically at this point — a growing aversion to imported goods in many categories, particularly when logic says there should be made - in - America available.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.08 % had tumbled 180 points by midday Monday, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.29 % was down more than 20 points, putting both on track for their worst day in three and a half months.

The Dow Jones industrial average or «Dow» (an index that tracks 30 large U.S. stocks) dropped more than 700 points, or nearly 3 percent, in the hours after the announcement.

The Dow Jones Industrial Index (an index that tracks 30 large, established, U.S. - based companies across all sectors) fell more than 100 points after his speech.

The Dow was on track to drop more than 600 points at market open.

While fitness - tracking features can help users with issues like diabetes, heart health, sleep, and mental health, Fitbit exists as little more than a hardware manufacturer at this point.

On the point - of - sale side of things, we track retailers, distributors, and foodservice operators, so we know what's selling at more than 1,300 retailers, including both e-commerce and brick - and - mortar.

Regardless of how you got to this point, learning how to rebuild credit after bankruptcy can help you get back on the right track sooner than you think.

Graham recommends a stock having a dividend history of longer than 10 years, at which point a company has established a track record of consistent profits and returns for the company's investors.

Some of the media outlet polls show a smaller Obama edge than the ones that came out last week, but the Rasmussen tracking poll has gone from a tie to a three point Obama lead.

@sabio — Ya know, I'm starting to see your point, but I think I might have gone off on a different track than you did.

Crush built a stand for him, a little nearer the planned collision point — which was marked by a post beside the track — than anyone else's vantage point.

My only point is that I would almost rather have a coach that isn't as tested, with a good track record as an assistant or an AHL coach and a affable demeanor; than to go with a retread coach, with a history of an abrasive personality, that seems to wear down his team when it gets to the most difficult point in the process.

As a result, the betting public is pounding the Pats, with slightly more than seven out of ten spread bets confident the Pats can get back on track and either win straight up or lose by a single point.

my point is if he lacks in tracking back etc than keep him were he is the most dangerous and will effect the team and let the others do the tracking back.

No point in worrying about it.Just sit back and enjoy (or whatever it is we do) the more than likely debacle heading down the tracks.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

And when you do look at those goals — as I have, on my tactical breakdowns, which you can find on the site — you can see why Liverpool have dropped points, and more often than not it's because of some individual error you can not account for, such as Lovren missing the ball, Matip leaving a header, Karius not positioning himself well enough, a midfielder not tracking his man properly, or the team of officials being useless in enforcing the laws of the game.

If you would like to keep track of more than just the few bullet points that will fit on a chalkboard, create a pregnancy journal to track your emotions, cravings, progress, fears, etc..

But from what I can make of the case, it's rather more complicated and convoluted than that piece makes it - because Allighan was making false allegations in an attempt to cover his own tracks: http://www.markpack.org.uk/garry-allighan-expulsion-from-parliament/ It's a good point about Conway, though I think overall Parliament should be very cautious about voting to kick out MPs - as it only requires a simple majority vote.

Cameron's old mate robustly defended the government's track record on supporting teachers by paying off some of their student debt in bursaries and pointing out that teachers repay their debt more slowly than higher earners.

In 2016 we should be in a better place than we were in 2012 because there is a track record to point at,» he said, to applause from the gathering.

In an e-mail to supporters entitled «60 - Point Lead is Not Enough,» Hoffman mentions Scozzafava no fewer than six times, accusing local GOP leaders of being on track to «annoint a liberal Republican» who is closer in ideology to his erstwhile opponent than the party's conservative base can tolerate.

The number 8th point in the recommendations — creating an Ombudsman for Education, is an essential one but the powers should be wider than the one cited in the recommendation particularly as it relates to tracking funds for programs serving Latino students.

As pointed out in a February article in Communications of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery], in 2003, more than twice as many recent Ph.D. s took tenure - track faculty positions as took postdocs.

[Angel Hsu et al, Development: Mobilize citizens to track sustainability] It's the same team who previously used satellite derived estimates to point out that New Delhi has smog as bad or worse than Beijing.

This strategy enabled the researchers to track and capture specific cell types as primed cells were reprogrammed to naïve cells, including at a much earlier time point and with better sensitivity than was previously possible.

For example, one seed tracked was cached by agoutis more than 30 times, journeying 280 meters from its starting point and more than 750 meters total.

Since we commanded the Hubble Space Telescope to track Pluto during the imaging, objects not moving with Pluto (like stars and asteroids) appear as streaks in the images, rather than a point - like source moving with Pluto.

Tracking down how scratching spreads by sight is more than a science puzzle, Yosipovitch points out.

They say analysis of the 30 data points is more informative about likely future emissions than national figures in wider use because it allows errors to be tracked more closely.

I can not see the point of working them out every day if the posture is kept on track, other than as a «body consciousness» exercise, or to learn to use them at will, eg when the body is in a position where they don't automatically engage.

Make it a point to track your weight because if you are gaining more than this, you are most likely storing fat.

I'm a proud Hufflepuff who at this point has more fandoms than even I can keep track of anymore.

DETROIT — After scoring 28 points more than he did a night earlier, Kristaps Porzingis said he knows he's on the right track.

Those later elements are really the only thing that sets this apart from the countless other cop - tracks - down - a-killer movies out there, because for all its clichéd plot points and stock characters, it's obvious screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker, and Allison Burnett are more concerned about coming up with graphic death scenes than anything else.

Doing so is more than worthwhile, as it not only powers up the character to the point where they start laying out untold amounts of damage, it also makes them invincible and — amazingly — causes an overly energetic J - rock track to kick in.

If it lacks spontaneity, it's a more organized telling of the making of the film than side A's commentary track, and offers other points of view.

The tense tracking shots interspersed with static point - of - view sets the scene more than any line of dialogue could - it's two years on from events of 2014 film Dawn and the battle between humans and apes, fuelled by the traitorous Koba (Toby Kebbell), has rendered the world a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

And if you see the criteria of scoring, these score more than the orientation standards at 12 points and the most important breakup here is tracking features:

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

Overall, teachers in tracking schools were 9.6 percentage points more likely to be found in school and teaching during random spot checks than their counterparts in nontracking schools, who were present and teaching only about half of the time.

The civil - service teachers were 10 percentage points more likely to be in schools and teaching in tracking schools than in nontracking schools when they were assigned to the top class.

The tests are more demanding than the old Ohio Graduation Tests that students had to pass before - so much more that proficiency rates have fallen dramatically and students are not earning enough «points» to be on track to graduate.

High - achieving students, however, fared six percentage points worse in such classes — and middle - achieving students fared two percentage points worse than they did when placed in «tracked» classes.

As Ushomirsky, Williams, and Hall point, out, the average gap in on - track performance rate for black and white students in Recognized schools is 18 percentage points, a mere two points better than for peers in low - performing schools.

The researchers also found that 10th - grade pathway students in four of seven districts are six to 17 percentage points more likely than similar peers to be on track to complete the a-g courses required for admission to California's public universities.