Sentences with phrase «arbitrary measures of»

«But what's never happened before is the state coming into a school and saying you must make (part) of your evaluation be based on two arbitrary measures of growth that have never been shown to be valid or reliable.»

In fact, what horsepower is — aside from an arbitrary measure of energy popularized by a guy who needed to sell steam engines — depends on where you live.

Not exact matches

The ISDS chapter in a trade agreement of a country where you are considering doing business or investing could act as a shield against any arbitrary foreign government measures that would negatively impact your business.

After continuing its rally into 2017, the price of bitcoin has now passed this arbitrary, but psychologically important measure of parity with an ounce of gold.

About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.

But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way.

I chose you quite by chance My sheer sister From among all the others To be the gnomon Whose measured shadow falls On all my delicate sorrows I was thinking only Of the sharp beauty That you sew into the sky Why did you draw me An arbitrary pilgrim?

People are realizing that all those stats aren't really correlating to equal return in the W - L record and that it's hardly more than an arbitrary way of measuring someone's impact on the game.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters on Monday that the final measure was a compromise, of sorts, even as good - government groups called its threshold «completely arbitrary.»

Today Mr Reid told the cabinet he was «mindful of the need for balancing measures to reassure the public when introducing moves that could be perceived as an increase in arbitrary power», and of the need to secure cross-party consensus on any changes.

The British way is that every measure we take to enhance security is complimented by additional protections against any arbitrary treatment and in defence of the liberties of the individual.

Equally striking, if less well known, are the so - called squeezed quantum states: Normally, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that one can not measure the values of certain pairs of physical quantities, such as the position and velocity of a quantum particle, with arbitrary precision.

Nike created a new measurement called «Nike Fuel» (measures exercise based on a sort of algorithm for oxygen kinetics), which can seem fairly arbitrary or at least less useful than working with calories.

It seems as though any attempt to escape arbitrary social rules via utilitarianism eventually runs smack into a set of somewhat biased and arbitrary social rules that must be implemented in order to measure and compare the utility of different groups of people.

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

Student achievement is measured by test results, which can be independent of standards (think arbitrary proficiency rates, score normalizing, tests not aligned with standards, etc).

TCTA was pleased to see that the proposed rules expanded the list of laws from which districts of innovation can not be exempt, but noted that the list was arbitrary and didn't include particularly important provisions like class - size limits, student discipline measures, teacher and parent rights, and teacher benefits.

The more specific goal of her case was to seek a judgment: (1) setting aside or vacating Sheri's individual growth score and rating her as «ineffective,» and (2) declare that the New York endorsed and implemented growth measures in use was / is «arbitrary and capricious.»

The authors urge U.S. policy makers to reduce the amount of testing in schools and to measure student growth during the year rather than arbitrary proficiency thresholds at year's end.

200 days is arbitrary, and so is the measure, but that is less than most of the measures that I considered, and at least this one corresponds to a relatively simple calculation.

The experiments have at times been extreme — wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, and living without measured time — yet one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary such a choice can be.

Don't let yourself get backed into a corner on the basis of an arbitrary measure.

It would be naive, I believe, to think we will have a unified global price, but my pitch is much more about promoting a measure of effort which is not based on arbitrary lines in the sand.

At the 1930 Solvay meeting Einstein proposed a thought experiment purporting to defeat Heisenberg uncertainty by opening the shutter of a box arbitrarily briefly to allow a photon to escape at an accurately known time then measuring the resulting decrease m in weight of the whole box to arbitrary accuracy so as to estimate the photon's energy E accurately as mc ^ 2.

Yet even as a measure of the human carbon footprint, the EF uses an arbitrary methodology that is highly sensitive to its authors» assumptions.

Splitting R and L into components is uninformative considering it's impossible to measure or calculate the value of the components without making arbitrary assumptions.

Thus in Lord Hope's judgment, measures of crowd control fall outside the scope of Art 5 (1) provided that they are not effected in an arbitrary manner.

Such measures shall be proportionate and may not constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States.

«Investors may well be wary of investing in Egypt if they run the risk of being subjected to the kind of concerted campaign of arbitrary and discriminatory measures to which Al Jazeera has been subjected in violation of Egypt's obligations under international law,» he adds.

They must not be arbitrary, unfair or based on irrational considerations; the means used to impair the right or freedom must be no more than is necessary to accomplish the legitimate objective - the more severe the detrimental effects of a measure, the more important the objective must be if the measure is to be justified in a democratic society.»

As a result, a regime of general data retention should be established on the basis of measures adopted by a legislative authority, that are accessible and foreseeable while offering adequate protection against arbitrary interference with the rights of privacy and data protection (§ 153).

The measures must be fair and not arbitrary; the means should impair the right in question as little as possible; and there must be proportionality between the effects of the limiting measure and the objective.

This onus is met if: a connection exists between the measure and the objectives so that the former can not be said to be arbitrary, unfair or irrational; the measure impairs the Charter right or freedom no more than necessary; and the effects of the measure are not so severe as to constitute an unacceptable abridgement of the right or freedom.

Notwithstanding that Japan is some 5000 miles away, Californians have been treated to scary animations showing a «plume» of radiation — measured less than comfortingly in «arbitrary units» — headed for Los Angeles, triggering a run on kelp tablets.

In 2016, AAA called on state lawmakers around the U.S. to abandon their «arbitrary» legal limits for driving while high in favor of «consistent, strong and fair enforcement measures.»

The 2 studies used different measures as proxies for the parenting dimensions of warmth and sensitivity, both with arbitrary cut points to dichotomize the parenting dimensions, so that they could have measured different underlying constructs.

Among several other principles, the authors suggest that researchers interested in measuring gambling's impact should avoid applying arbitrary monetary values to non-monetary impacts, create impact profiles instead of a bottom line, examine micro and macro geographic impacts, compare impacts with changes in control communities, apply basic economic principles to their evaluation, and use longitudinal research designs when possible.