Sentences with phrase «existing measures of growth»

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Absent growth, the only other option for restoring some measure of financial integrity and standard of living for its citizens is to enact fiscal and structural reforms and restructure the existing burdensome debt, with the long - term goal of putting the island on a sustainable growth trajectory.

Blood analysis measures total and free testosterone, IGF - 1 (for growth hormone deficiency), cholesterol, blood count, and other crucial levels that will determine if any hormones are too low, or if any other problems exist that could be the cause of the symptoms.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

There are three important questions about the use of student growth measures that can not easily be answered with existing empirical evidence:

To continue with the measured and sustainable growth of this business they now have an opportunity for Recruitment Consultant or a Senior Recruitment Professional to lead, manage and grow the existing team and also a contracts Consultant to further develop an already well established desk.

Other measures of caregiver - or parent - reported young child development exist or are under development, including the Early Development Instrument and the Index of Early Human Capability, which incorporate items representing each of these domains and are being used across high -, middle -, and low - income countries.1 Important complements to this form of measure are those assessments that can capture development in specific areas over time (e.g. growth in language or emotional skills).