All of these will give you better progress measurements than a scale. (coachcalorie.com)
Focus on other progress measurements besides weight — blood pressure, cholesterol, confidence, etc.. (coachcalorie.com)
For example, we strongly support doing away with the adequate yearly progress measurement, and agree that requiring states to adopt unreliable test - based principal and teacher evaluation will only lead to an overemphasis on standardized tests and the further narrowing of the curriculum. (parentsacrossamerica.org)