The genre is delivering decent performance, to judge from various published statistics on average results.
Currently, some schools can be awarded the top rating even if pupils only achieve average results.
But they are regarded as "high stakes" primarily because schools' average results are published in government performance tables - loathed by teachers.
And these companies appear to be achieving better than average results.
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As such, test your own account several times and average then results to obtain a more accurate estimate of the health of your followers.
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Take Beechen Cliff grant maintained comprehensive school in Bath, for example - with pupils coming mainly from middle class, professional backgrounds and consistently above-average exam results.
The UK belongs to a group of countries, including France, Germany and the United States, that are above average for results, but have lower levels of equity.
In a post-hoc analysis comparing average stock prices from 120 to 60 days before results were announced to the average price for the subsequent 60 days, those reporting positive results saw a mean increase in share price of 9.4 percent.
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On average, the results showed that those in the solo condition spent more time on their walkstations during the six-month period than those in the duo or quintet conditions.
Of the 22 corporate giants in the Dow Jones industrial average that have reported results, 15 have missed their revenue targets, according to the data provider FactSet.
Just as everyone thinks himself a better-than-average driver, these results (assuming that they are honest) suggest people are more willing to see sin in others than in themselves.
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The results beat the average analyst expectation polled by Thomson Reuters of 74 cents.
On that basis, the results exceeded the average estimate of 76 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.
When you run the company that stamps out the chips that power most of the world's PCs and servers--as Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini does--you've got a whole lot more riding on your quarterly results than the average tech company.
Naturally, we had to take this for a spin, but our benchmark results were nothing beyond average.
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The results easily topped the average analyst estimate for 96 cents.
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Nissen also points out that the patients in the study are sicker than the average heart patient and that the results may not translate to most patients who take Zetia or Vytorin.
But in return Marin delivered results above the national average: 96.8% of its seniors graduated, and 60.4% of them took the SAT college entrance exam and scored a mean 1133 (out of 1600).
The results were well below the average minus 10.0 forecast by economists polled by Reuters.
Figure 3 shows the results of a conditional moving average timing signal I created on StockScreen123.
Results to date show an average 15% increase in sales per store where the coolers are used.
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Academies have already turned around hundreds of struggling schools and are improving their results at twice the national average.
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Over the past three years, he notes, the company has generated on average 45% EPS growth, with results beating expectations.
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The results revealed huge differences in average outcomes for people placed into temporary work and those placed directly with an employer.
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In contrast, 9 out of 10 pros were positive on the information technology sector, yet the year-end results were below the market average.
In Home Depot's results, momentum in the average ticket, sales per square foot and the volume of high-ticket items will gauge underlying home-improvement demand.
Yet when schools inspectors denounce schools for producing children with results way below the national average, the air is soon filled with excuses and indignation.
The results: While workers on average said they planned on spending only about 14 percent of added income, they reported months later they actually had spent 36 percent.
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The school, in a southern suburb of Nottingham, near Trent Bridge cricket ground, has GCSE results way above the national average and top of the league for state schools in its area.
Some volunteers also dropped out, most of whom had higher body mass index on average, which may also skew the results toward a beneficial effect of the Mediterranean diet, since the individuals who remained might have been more motivated to take care of their hearts to begin with.
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