Sentences with phrase «value scores from»

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«Increased losses are emanating from weaker collateral pools in the 2013 - 2015 transactions, which have weaker credit quality including lower FICO scores, higher amounts of extended term loans (over 60 months) and higher LTVs [loan to value ratios],» Fitch Ratings analysts wrote Thursday.

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

The Pure Style Value Index Series only includes those stocks from the parent index that exhibit strong value characteristics and weights them by style score,» according to GuggenValue Index Series only includes those stocks from the parent index that exhibit strong value characteristics and weights them by style score,» according to Guggenvalue characteristics and weights them by style score,» according to Guggenheim.

But whereas art is a movement from complexity to simplicity within the limits of a canvas, a musical score, a poem, a novel, or a play, the religious impulse seeks an unrestricted field of value whose harmony involves an ever - enlarging processive synthesis of complexity and intensity.

Darwin himself felt some doubts on this score, writing in old age to a friend that» «with me the horrid doubt arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or are trustworthy.»»

lacazette looks a good bet but he will cost the earth (each goal scored past 30 will add extra # 10 million to value) coming of the back of a great season he looks like he could be the next benzema from lyon.

Valued at an incredible # 46m, Chelsea have bid for Atletico Madrid winger Antoine Griezmann, who scored 25 goals from out wide last season and who would make a serious upgrade on players like Willian and Juan Cuadrado.

The 18 - year - old Les Bleus center forward scored 26 goals and provided 14 assists in 44 games for the Ligue 1 side last season and as per the provided L'Equipe link, PSG are also interested in signing the in from striker, who is valued at $ 150million.

Lingard's recently - discovered propensity for scoring spectacular, and often decisive, strikes from range has seen the 25 - year - old become one of the most valued members of Mourinho's squad this term.

Of course, that might have nothing to do with Lasogga, but managers that value their position in a team don't bench strikers who score hat - tricks, no matter the pedigree of the player coming back from injury.

When analysing performance IQ and verbal IQ separately, the risk for children breast fed for less than three months to have a IQ score below the median value, was not statistically different from the other children when adjusting for maternal Raven score (table6).

Frailty scores ranged from 0 (no positive frailty values) to 0.64 (four positive frailty values) with a mean score of.10.

These ratings were then used to train a machine - learning algorithm to extract a single score from the measured values that would faithfully reflect the perceptual judgement of the volunteers.

An estimate of general cognitive functioning based on the first principal factor was regressed from the observed cognitive scores to derive an estimate of specific influences on each measure, and this value was subtracted from the observed score to provide an estimate of general influences on the measure.

These methods are called Biological Value [BV], Protein Digestibility [PD], Net Protein Utilization [NPU], Protein Efficiency Ratio [PER], and Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score [PDCAAS], for determining the relative quality from food - source proteins.

It is stated that eggs score 100 on their biological value, meaning that all protein ingested from eggs is used by the body.

Dr Joel Furhman has done an incredible job of collecting data and scoring food from the USDA nutrition database, and assign it an ANDI value.

To get the TrueMatch score calculated, the user rates each response as Positive or Negative and assigns an importance value to each response on the scale from 1 to 10.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

Meanwhile, home - movie - like visual textures from cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine and a thrillingly abrasive Mica Levi score enhance the immersive qualities of a movie that argues for the value of ritual, symbols, and tradition, even in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

However, its excellent production values - from its visual sense to its costumes and a music score by Cronenburg regular Howard Shore (reminiscent of the one John Corigliano did for Altered States)- prevents it from being merely The Lawnmower Man meets The Matrix as my movie companion derisively remarked as we exited the cinema.

Still, high entertainment value, solid acting from our leads, interesting sound design and score make this more of a winner.

Average score: 80.6 Total value: $ 73.58 Skinny: Limbo, and a Stealth 2 that reviewed far better on Vita than consoles, helped August to the best critical month on offer from PS Plus.

The film boasts high production values, from stunning cinematography by Andrij Parekh, to impressive production design by Suzie Davies, set decoration by Charlotte Watts, costume design by Bina Daigeler, and a moving score by Harry Gregson - Williams.

The topics span the MFM1P curriculum, and are arranged in difficulty from $ 100 to $ 500 score value.

Remarkably, there is no disagreement about the facts regarding volatility: the correlation in teacher - level value - added scores from one year to the next is in the range of.35 to.60.

If only one student in the class opts out, value - added scores barely change at all — the correlation is 0.99 (on a scale from 0 to 1).

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

Also, there is a logic to using tests to devise a solution, because test scores do predict later - life outcomes such as college - going and earnings; and important recent evidence from Stanford researcher Raj Chetty and colleagues shows that having a «high value - added» teacher — one who improves student test scores — also positively predicts these outcomes.

For the past three years, I have worked as a sixth - and seventh - grade math teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y. I have had two value - added scores published on the New York Times SchoolBook website which received the scores from the New York City Department of Education through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The lower scores they receive from incomplete assignments and exams will lower their grades, and the opportunities they might have had to apply for high - value scholarships and awards will also decline.

Low MCAS Scores Launch Dispute Over Test's Value and Use (Bay State Banner) Paul Reville weighs in on the results from a new MCAS, which debuted last spring in Massachusetts and resulted in plunging sScores Launch Dispute Over Test's Value and Use (Bay State Banner) Paul Reville weighs in on the results from a new MCAS, which debuted last spring in Massachusetts and resulted in plunging scoresscores.

We measured value - added with the average change in combined reading and math scores for a school's students between the end of 3rd grade and the end of 4th grade; we measured cross-cohort changes with the change in 4th grade scores from one year to the next.

The improvement of scores for at least two contiguous grades (for example, grades 4 and 5) from one year to the next is a mixture of value - added changes (the 4th grade students who become 5th graders) and cross-cohort changes (the 4th grade students this year are a different group from the 4th grade students last year).

Kane and Staiger have analyzed the statistical properties of value - added and cross-cohort changes in test scores, using data from North Carolina (see Figure 1).

The Times analysis used a «value added» statistical analysis of math and English scores from the school district — the nation's second largest — to estimate the effectiveness of third - through fifth - grade teachers.

They constructed an index of parent characteristics by using fitted values from a regression of test scores on mother's age at child's birth, indicators for parent's 401 (k) contributions and home ownership, and an indicator for the parent's marital status interacted with a quartic in parent's household income.

They claim that value - added studies that measure gains from one point in time to the next fail to account for the fact that «two students can have pretest scores and similar schooling conditions during a grade and still emerge with different posttest scores influenced by different earlier schooling conditions.»

Economists have already developed a statistical method called value - added modeling that calculates how much teachers help their students learn, based on changes in test scores from year to year.

Statisticians began the effort last year by ranking all the teachers using a statistical method known as value - added modeling, which calculates how much each teacher has helped students learn based on changes in test scores from year to year.

It is based on a comparison of two different value - added scores for teachers: one derived from the regular state assessment (which varies by participating district) and the other from an alternative assessment that is specifically designed to measure students» depth of higher - order conceptual understanding in each subject.

I've already seen at least one post from a teacher of «gifted» students, complaining that she now has a negative value added measure because her students started the year with very high test scores.

Imprudent efforts could discourage strong teachers from working with low - achieving students, now judged on simplistic value - added scores.

In Brandenburg's words: «Value - Added scores for any given teacher jumped around like crazy from year to year.

Because teachers at the Wright School didn't consider the tests from which VAMs were calculated to be good tests, they largely didn't assign any meaning or importance to value - added scores, and VAM didn't become a topic of conversation between teachers.

I don't think this precludes an unscrupulous principal from assigning challenging students to a teacher in the hope that the teacher will fail, and obtain a low value - added score; however, the models are not designed to illuminate specific cases, but rather to reveal trends across many teachers and classrooms.

Similarly, teachers who won high marks from professional observers or students were also not getting higher value - added scores.

It's becoming a familiar story: Great teachers get low scores from «value - added» teacher evaluation models.

Value - added scores in this report and in general are unstable from year to year and from test to test, but the report ignores this instability.

But as with any system of ranking or scoring, value - added measures are far from perfect; they are subject to bias, distortion and error.