Sentences with phrase «measure of quality»

These impacts will affect where we live, how we feed ourselves, and other important measures of quality of life.

After separating out the timing issue, better measures of the quality of instruction provided by districts, schools and teachers can be obtained.

Such peer review is typical in university - based research in order to instill some objective measure of quality.

Warranty: The warranty can be an important measure of quality, since it's how long the manufacturer is willing to back up their product.

Researchers found that consciousness and thinking abilities improved hand - in - hand with measures of quality of sleep, showing a linear relationship.

How they look, feel and act are the true measure of quality, not marketing or sales hype.

Yet the standard measure of quality today, the teaching credential or license, is no sign of quality.

The final measure of quality is the medal (a bestseller), not the process that got them there.

The second measure of quality is price performance compared to other companies in the same business.

She headed a new review of research in order to examine several measures of the quality of early childhood education specifically for dual - language learners.

These two measures are the strongest measures of quality that exist, as they capture the sum of all of the quality - based decisions of individual parents.

While there are no direct measures of the quality of colleges across countries, there is indirect evidence.

There is no perfect measure of quality, but schooling and wages do represent reasonable ways to investigate it, for several reasons.

A central part of much of the teacher quality discussion has been the use of value - added measures of quality.

Parental satisfaction is the most important yet often overlooked measure of the quality of education a child is receiving.

And they meet that elusive third measure of quality, customer satisfaction.

It's basic measure of quality is the extent to which the judges adopt phrases from the brief in their judgment, but also whether the party actually won the case.

The choice of a one - dimensional measure of quality can be cited among the limitations of the study.

This is a good measure of the quality of their education and, to some extent, of their aptitude.

But the final measure of quality is not what it went through to get to the top, it is being at the top of the sales.

Through these partnerships, federal EHS grantees provide professional development opportunities to home - based and center - based partners; assist in training and mentoring for their child care partners; and observe and report on the best outcomes and challenges for child care partners who participate in the initiative, as well as measures of quality within the partners» child care environments.

Of the three most widely used measures of quality in the field of early education — the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), the standards of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and those of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)-- none pays much heed to whether the «graduates» of preschool programs are ready for academic success in kindergarten and beyond.

Return on Capital Calculations and Ratios provide measures of quality for the value analyst searching for long term investments.

One of the clearest places to see this was the difference in performance between lower - ranked companies based on measures of quality (mostly the dependability of operating results) and higher - ranked companies.

With respect to the Tennessee study, observations revealed that 85 percent of classrooms scored lower than «good quality» on the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS - R), a widely used measure of quality.

Not so long ago, the only measure of the quality of a professional development session was whether the participants were smiling when they left the room — and not just because it was over.

The world's largest firms — the 10,000 - lawyer behemoths on the distant horizon — are going to be those that specialize in commodity - type work, the kind of things that can be automated, templated, algorithmed and standardized — the kind of work for which ISO 2001 ratings will be meaningful measures of quality assurance.

We now analyze our sample by creating a composite measure of quality based on the three filters.

Whatever the reasons for these potential errors, they seem to be the exception, not the rule, and without direct access to the courts» methods and measures of quality control, I have to take the data at face value.

Second, wage - based measures of quality suggest that the wages of teachers relative to those of other workers have fallen considerably, even after accounting for other factors that may not be related to quality.

It was exciting to see how the new «altmetrics» largely overlapped with traditional measures of quality, but also offered complementary insights.»

As Yong Zhao observed in his book Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, «The American public, short of other easy - to - understand measures, seems to have accepted the notion that test scores are an accurate measure of the quality of their schools» (2009, 33).

Another criticism might be that teachers» wages are not an appropriate measure of quality.

In addition to knowing each set of twins» genetic overlap (identical = more, fraternal = less), the researchers focused on individual twins» reports of marital satisfaction (a general measure of the quality of their marriages) and self - reported health that asks participants to indicate their overall health, from «the worst possible» to «the best possible» health.

The data also highlight the lack of common measures of quality across early childhood programs and early elementary experiences and the need for better alignment across the preschool - to - third - grade continuum.

Watson Relocation Services has been recognized by RELO ®'s Quality Certification Program, the first standardized measure of quality and performance in the relocation industry.

But experts say it would become difficult to calculate the effect a teacher has on students» test scores, which education reformers see as a key measure of quality teaching.

DONA International certification is a widely respected measure of quality and professionalism.

«The findings reported by Merkow et al are noteworthy because they are derived from analysis of ACS NSQIP data, widely regarded as among the most reliable measures of quality.

But they conclude: «Average time is an established measure of quality and used by the [World Health Organization] and the [International Network for Rational Use of Drugs] as a measure to promote the safe and cost effective use of drugs — it should be universally and regularly reported, and over time, be accepted as an essential measure on the quality of health services around the world.»

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen isn't good by any possible measure of quality.

Responses also serve as one measure of the quality member's teaching that is used to evaluate faculty for promotion and tenure.