Sentences with phrase «measure of progress»

Good measures of progress in improving outcomes and closing gaps are essential.

To summarize: testing is an important measure of progress for students.

Businesses, small and large, use key performance indicators as objective measures of progress toward targets.

Perhaps the most useful and most important measure of progress can be obtained by looking at the animal itself.

The review also says more data should be published to give a rounded picture of a school's performance, including new measures of the progress of lower - attaining pupils.

The numbers on the scale shouldn't be your only measure of progress — they're not always real and definite, so pair them with photos.

There's only one real, cliché - but - true measure of progress — the way we feel in our skin.

The government said it was working with teachers to improve standards in primary schools and introduce a proper measure of progress from when children start school to age 11.

Frequent formative measures of progress provide the needed information in a timely fashion.

Better targeted tests also provide more accurate measures of progress over time.

Compared to existing evaluation tools, value - added methodology offers the advantage of providing an objective measure of progress students make year to year rather than measuring solely their achievement level.

That'll be a solid measure of your progress.

Second, weight is the easiest measure of progress.

In 2016 every student who improved by a grade would equate to a value of 1, this makes total sense and an absolutely fair measure of progress in my opinion.

For now, this isn't as easy to replicate in eLearning, though I'm hoping someday we'll have better tools to take advantage of this powerful measure of progress.

They are the only common measure of progress we have.

The ultimate measure of progress for schools nationwide is high school graduation rates.

No, the true measure of progress is your saving rate — how much you save as a percentage of your income.

Body fat percentage, tape measurements, progress pictures, how your clothes fit, blood work, strength, endurance, and confidence are equally important measures of progress.

Your community will provide needed encouragement and guidance to help you progress, and the data will provide the most accurate measure of that progress.

review performance on all indicators in the state accountability system to ensure that subgroups of students that do not meet, or are not on target to meet, a state - set goal or interim measure of progress on a single indicator — such as a low graduation rate — need not fail on every indicator to be identified for support; and

As a result, focusing on GDP as the prime measure of progress gives only a partial picture of social and personal welfare.

This serves as a good measure of progress because it factors in new purchases, DRIPs and dividend increases which should all drive this metric higher.

Practising such a piece of writing is not enough to secure success in that task, nor is it the only measure of progress towards it.

The real measure of progress is Europe, where the whole of England has moved seriously backwards, but regarding Arsenal it's six seasons in a row we go out at the round of 16 in the CL, and we lost 5 of the 8 games we played.

Nor is the lack of a proven measure of progress in either primary or secondary.»

In 2005, I surveyed efforts to shift from strictly economic measures of progress, like gross domestic product, to a broader basket of indicators of well - being — everything from access to schools and health care to the quality of the environment.

(CEERT) agreed, saying the bills represent «the beginning of rethinking the RPS and kWh of renewables as the dominant measure of progress.»

Convene an initial meeting to establish goals, clarify roles and responsibilities for leaders and team members, agree to standards of team conduct, develop measures of progress and success, and set a schedule for ongoing meetings.

«The way that trade unions, including the ITU, are treated, and whether they are permitted to operate freely and independently without government interference provides a critical measure of progress of the conditions that exist for ordinary people.

In that case, including measures of progress or other indicators that would have given nuance to the piece aren't necessary, since the intention isn't to be definitive or prescriptive — and parents might not be particularly interested in high - growth districts with low scores, anyway.

«Enlightenment Now takes the approach he uses in Better Angels to track violence throughout history and applies it to 15 different measures of progress (like quality of life, knowledge, and safety).

And there are other expectations of football teams that go beyond the simple measures of progress and results: style, perhaps, or good conduct, or that vague yet palpable sense that a flying one has been given.

Speakers from AJWS will discuss how its decision to use outcome harvesting aligned with AJWS's approach to research, learning and evaluation, including a dedication to feminist research and meaningful measures of progress when addressing issues that have complex root causes.

Yet gender diversity in film remains lacking enough that when two people passed out at a recent film - festival screening of Julia Ducournau's cannibalism coming - of - age tale, Raw — much to the director's surprise and dismay — it was not only noteworthy but also a perverse measure of progress.

Ideally you want multiple measures of progress and success, and you need to keep those tangible measures tethered to the broader goals they support.

Six resource groups were created 0 to recommend measures of progress 0 toward the national goals adopted by 0 President Bush and the nation's gov0 ernors.

«This work begins at primary level and that is why we are introducing ambitious new accountability measures and introducing a proper measure of progress so there is no hiding place for under - performing schools.

«In primary schools, we are raising the bar to improve standards and introducing a proper measure of progress from when children start school to age 11.

«This is a consequence of a continued emphasis on threshold attainment measures that do not take into account pupil starting points — it is ironic that this announcement was made on the final day for schools to opt in early for the new accountability measure of Progress 8.»

In fact, because of lack of accountability and necessary measures of progress, charter schools and other private voucher schools are less likely to provide students with complete school experiences that serve the students» needs.

Rat's tails and dead cobras were measures of progress against vermin overpopulation in Vietnam and India.

And thanks to the cartography system, you have a clear measure of your progress right on the bottom screen.

These are all in Xenoblade Chronicles, but the overarching measure of your progress is relationships.

Other versions of this concept include the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan's championing of Gross National Happiness as an alternative measure of progress, and the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index, which measures both overall human happiness and ecological sustainability.