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Assignment

The receipt of an exercise notice by an options writer that requires the writer to sell (in the case of a call) or purchase (in the case of a put) the underlying security at the specified strike price.

Assignment

A sale or gift, especially of a contract or an obligation. While assigning contracts is common, not all contracts are transferable. See also: Assignor.

assignment

The transfer of a registered security from one owner to another.

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Assignment.

Assignment occurs when someone who has written, or sold, a listed option receives a notice that the option has been exercised and he or she must fulfill the terms of the contract by buying the underlying instrument if the option was a put or selling the underlying instrument if the option was a call.

Making the assignment is a two-step process. When an option listed on a US exchange is exercised, the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) notifies a member broker-dealer firm with clients who have sold options in that series that one of those clients must meet the obligation to buy or sell. The firm, in turn, selects an individual client following its particular methodology, such as chronological order of sale or random choice.

As the writer of an in-the-money option, you should expect assignment, unless you close out your position with an offsetting contract. However, there is no guarantee that you will realize a profit or avoid a loss.

Assignment also means transferring property you own, such as stock and real estate, to someone else by using the document that's appropriate to the type of property. Similarly, property of a financially troubled entity can be assigned, or transferred, to a creditor and sold to offset losses.

Assignment

The transfer of ownership, rights, or interests in property by one person, the assignor, to another, the assignee.

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In the quarter of random assignment, 91.5 percent of controls and 91.1 percent of program group members received welfare.

The impact of a continuous participation obligation in a welfare employment program

Random assignment does not control for differences in the environment of the groups (differences irrelevant to the treatment) or variation that the experimenter may introduce by treating the two groups differently.

Research design, falsification and the qualitative-quantitative divide

Table 2 Self-Employment Experiences Since Random Assignment (Percent) Massachusetts Treatment Control (N = 229) (N = 220) Self-Employment Spells 1 43.2 27.7 2 or more 4.0 0.9 Subtotal--with Self-Employment 47.2 28.6 No Self-Employment Spells 52.8 71.4 Total 100.0 100.0 Washington Treatment Control (N = 604) (N = 600) Self-Employment Spells 1 48.8 25.3 2 or more 3.1 1.3 Subtotal--with Self-Employment 51.9 26.6 No Self-Employment Spells 48.0 73.3 Total 100.0 100.0 To test the impact of the program on the timing of business starts, the treatment and control group members' mean elapsed time to the start of their first self-employment spell were compared.

Self-employment programs: a new reemployment tool

If random assignment is not used (and sometimes even when it is), some important aspect may not be divided equally between the groups of subjects.

Random assignment

Also inherent in their responses are three guidelines to be addressed by follow-up treatment efficacy studies: (1) random assignment of participants to treatment conditions; (2) use of uniform assessment protocols across all participants; and (3) documentation of sufficient methodological detail to allow for independent replication.

EIBT research after Lovaas (1987): a tale of two studies

Sixteen is, of course, an appreciable number of sites, more than that used in most random assignment evaluations of E&T programs, and perhaps too many to allow useful narrative synthesis to be conducted.

Multistate employment and training program evaluations: a tale of three studies

Quasi-experimental research designs are based on naturally occurring circumstances or institutions that (perhaps unintentionally) divide people into treatment and control groups in a manner akin to purposeful random assignment.

Randomized trials and quasi-experiments in education research

The authors report on their experiences in recruiting teachers for random assignment experiments in public primary and secondary schools.

Recruiting Participants for Randomized Controlled Trials

The studies each use a random assignment research design, the "gold standard" in program evaluation.

Performance-Based Scholarships: Replication at Six Sites Using Randomized Controlled Trials

The paper will consider non-clustered designs where (1) students are randomized to a treatment and control group, (2) clustered designs where units (such as schools or classrooms) are randomized, and (3) both stratified designs where random assignment is conducted within blocks (such as school districts or schools) and non-stratified designs.

What Is the Minimum Information Needed to Estimate Average Treatment Effects in Education RCTs?

Here's what the authors found: First, the measures of effectiveness from the 2009-10 school year did identify teachers who produced higher average student achievement following random assignment. Second, the magnitude of the achievement gains they generated was consistent with their expectations.

Have We Identified Effective Teachers? Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment. Research Paper. MET Project

One paper uses random assignment to test for bias in teachers' value-added scores.

Review of "Have We Identified Effective Teachers?" and "A Composite Estimator of Effective Teaching: Culminating Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project"

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