Sentences with phrase «external measures like»

Instead of listening to our internal cues, we focus on external measures like calories and other numbers.

Not exact matches

Because your ego is formed by external stuff — like validation, opinions, job, education — it focuses on eliminating external sins, the ones you can tangibly measure.

And tying high - stakes external consequences to measures of goals, like test scores, can lead to unproductive behaviors.

Under teacher evaluation reforms, as of 2015, all but eight states have committed to using an objective measure of student achievement — such as performance on standardized assessments — as a part of teacher and principal evaluation systems.40 However, given the challenges of fairly incorporating student test performance in evaluations, all states and districts engaged in these reforms must account for factors like the variation in student background and other external influences on performance.

Like other public schools in our state, Avalon must meet intense external accountability measures, including 133 graduation standards and hundreds of benchmarks.

Author Erik Davis (also a writer for Wired, Bookforum, and The Village Voice) had remembered that in the mid-90s, «I got paid pretty good for a youngster — generally much better than I get paid now, when my career sometimes looks more and more like a hobby...» But he also noted that his career is «less driven by external measures of what a «successful» writing career looks like,» and he'd enjoyed spending his time writing about off - beat topics like mystical and counter-cultural threads in both technology and the media.