Sentences with phrase «by subjective measures»

Many outsiders have attempted to make readers ashamed of their reading choices by judging by subjective measures.

Goals and progress towards goals are often facilitated by subjective measuring and scaling.

Not exact matches

The results, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, are based on both subjective life - satisfaction surveys and objective measures of quality of life.

phcraniometer looks a lot like the protractors we all used in elementary school for drawing circles and measuring angles, and depends on subjective decisions by your baby's practitioner.

The study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is the first to show that lisdexamfetamine (LDX) improved subjective and objective measures of cognitive decline commonly experienced in menopausal women.

All three measures — objective rating by Chou, subjective rating by patients, and digital data from the device's connection to a computer — showed improvement for eating and transferring items when the device was turned on, compared to when it was off.

Hariri and his lab director, Daniel Weinberger, wondered if they could get more concrete answers by comparing people's genes not just to their behavior or a subjective psychological state, but to brain activity measured by a scan.

The scientists will use these sources to validate their results by checking whether the emotions measured correlate with the subjective assessments in the social media.

With this in mind, LSE researchers set out to study the nature and extent of the «intangible» impact of the Olympic Games by using measures of subjective wellbeing that have been developed and tested by economists and psychologists for around 20 years in order to assess how people think and feel about their lives.

There is also an odor object version of «banana,» a combination of the inherent pleasantness of the molecules released by the fruit (as measured by Sobel's yardstick) and our subjective mental state when we encounter them.

The biologic effects of grounding the human body during sleep as measured by cortisol levels and subjective reporting of sleep, pain, and stress.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

The results presented here — greater teacher performance as measured by student achievement gains in years following TES review — strongly suggest that teachers develop skills or otherwise change their behavior in a lasting manner as a result of undergoing subjective performance evaluation in the TES process.

We propose federal support to help states measure the effectiveness of individual teachers — based on their impact on student achievement, subjective evaluations by principals and peers, and parental evaluations.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

More importantly, observations are inherently biased because they are based on subjective determinations by school leaders and others who are prone to think that their approach to teaching is superior to anyone else's (even if teachers being evaluated have demonstrated that they improve student achievement as measured by test score growth).

Content validity is a subjective measure assessing the appropriateness of the survey items as determined by reviewers who have some knowledge of the subject matter.

Mounting pressure in the policy arena to improve teacher productivity either by improving signals that predict teacher performance or through creating incentive contracts based on performance — has spurred two related questions: Are there important determinants of teacher productivity that are not captured by teacher credentials but that can be measured by subjective assessments?

By all objective measures, and any subjective measure that you'd care to hold a Camry to, the Passat is a fine car.

In contrast, our competitors hide the details of their proprietary approaches, e.g. by saying that they use some unspecified measures of return vs. risk, or by relying on a subjective assessment by analysts.

As pointed out before on this blog, even our private, emotional lives are not beyond the reach of the state, which has grown attached to the «happiness agenda» — the idea that a government's performance is better measured by a measurement of «subjective sense of well - being» rather than economic indices such as GDP.

Greens have argued for some time that there are better ways to measure progress than GDP growth, for instance by redistributing wealth within an economy limited by environmental regulations and improving measures of «subjective wellbeing», rather than expecting growth to deliver marginal material improvements at the bottom.

The level of subjective well - being, as measured by WHO - 5, classified 882 (50.5 %) of the doctors as normal, 476 (27.3 %) as having low mood and 388 (22.2 %) as having likely depression.

Specifically, PWB has: (1) strong negative correlation with the MHI - 5, where the higher the mental health (as measured by the MHI - 5), the less unfavourable the PWB (as measured by the ASSET; r = − 0.79), (2) moderate negative correlation with the SHS, where the higher the subjective happiness (as measured by the SHS), the less unfavourable the PWB (as measured by the ASSET; r = − 0.47) and (3) moderate negative correlation with CD - RISC, where the higher the resilience (as measured by the CD - RISC), the less unfavourable the PWB (as measured by the ASSET; r = − 0.44).

METHODS: Subjective well - being was measured by work engagement, workplace support for new... ideas, work satisfaction and experienced stress.

Another frequently used measure of subjective well - being is the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985), which assesses the concept of life satisfaction by measuring individuals» global judgement of their lives and, thus, the cognitive component of subjective well - being.

The SHS is a 4 - item scale rated on a 1 to 7 Likert - type scale that measures global subjective happiness by means of statements, with which participants either self - rate themselves or compare themselves to others.

Attractiveness was measured in part by the subjective evaluations of single people.

Mental health problems, subjective WE and PWE contexts were assessed by local adaptations of internationally developed measures for use with former child soldiers at least 6 years after the end of the war.

Analyzing longitudinal data from Germany, we find that the experience during the transition to parenthood, as measured by changes in subjective well - being, predicts further parity progression.

4) Quality of life defined as subjective evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of life covered physical functioning, occupational role, interpersonal relationships and psychological functioning, measured by validated standardized including General Quality of Life Inventory -74 - GQOLI - 74 which measured physical functioning, psychological functioning, social functioning, and standard of living; Well - Being scale - WBS, measure positive aspects of psychological functioning.

Conclusion The PECI augments the current literature by providing a brief measure of parents» subjective distress and perceived Emotional Resources, domains that are critical but understudied in children with chronic illness and their caregivers.

First, the moderating effect of parenting stress on the relation between objective measures of neonatal behavior and later subjective maternal ratings of infant temperament may be driven by a subset of children who evidence persistent irritable and difficult behaviors over the first 4 months of life.

For that purpose, we measured empathy, subjective happiness, and affect experienced by a group of 42 adolescents with AS compared to 44 of their non-AS peers.