Sentences with phrase «measuring old standards»

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Which I think is fine, of course, but no need to use the old Christian standard of «peace in my heart» for a measure of truth.

Indeed, the subhead next to the photograph reads: «Growing Old Without Thinking Old» «-- exactly what Daisy Grunau complained of in pointing to standards of youth as those by which we measure all behavior and appearance.

The standard used was that of the old traditional penance, which was measured simply by days of visible penance and exclusion from the liturgy.

She added that other measures were also needed to ensure that older people's welfare remained a top political priority, such as improving the standards of care services and action to enhance the quality of life for the 500,000 people in residential care homes.

While this is still in our own backyard, as measured by extragalactic standards, the galaxy's larger - than - expected distance may explain why astronomers have had difficulty detecting older, fainter stars within the galaxy until now.

Wash your hands The most important preventive measure is the old standard: frequent hand washing for a good 30 seconds or so — with soap and water.

Overdosing Creates the Same Old Problems This misconception about measuring hormones has been particularly misleading among those who use bioidentical hormones because one must take massive overdoses of hormones before they'll show up at all in a standard blood test.

It's a measure of the quality of the music in «Whiplash» that we were originally going to earmark the film for our Soundtracks list (coming next week), so sure we were that director Damien Chazelle had mostly used old jazz standards to punctuate his thrilling film.

In a national report that measures access, quality and investment in public preschool programs, California ranks high for the number of 3 - year - olds and 4 - year - olds enrolled in programs, but low on quality standards.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

This is not entirely unexpected: educators were expecting that some students would find math especially challenging because Common Core math requires more ELA proficiency than California's old standards.4 But it does suggest that, as measured in the first year of the SBAC, high - need students have farther to go — perhaps further than the old standards and assessments indicated.

We find among the top 50 districts for SBAC ELA performance for economically disadvantaged students, 30 percent of these districts were also top performers on the CST ELA.11 Nearly one - third of districts that exceeded expectations under the old standards are doing much better than expected with the new standards, as measured by these tests.

In school districts with higher percentages of high - need students, smaller shares of students meet or exceed either the new Common Core standards as measured by the SBAC, or the old standards as measured by the CST.

We find that there was the most movement of district scores from the old to the new test among schools that were in the middle of the distribution for the share of high - need students, with a 70 % lower share meeting the standards as measured by the SBAC in comparison to the CST.

And we have to recognize that CA's previous CST system was built to measure CA's 1997 standards that objective analyses have said heavily overlap in terms of both content and rigor with the new common core standards, similar to MA's old standards to new common core standards situation, and that likely 60 to 80 percent of the CST items also actually measure common core standards, tho not with the desired types of item and test administration formats.

An added bonus to this format is that players will feel more encouraged to visit stages and beat their scores, which are measured in the old Japanese standard of letter grades.

Read your measured but notable comment on the «RC» Existence of any dichotomy of Gavin's understanding is barred from his public pronouncements even more so by his recent carrier elevation; result is a number of obvious flaws in his logic, as distinct from his unquestionable intellectual ability (I am bound to say so, he got a degree from my old university, albeit one stage higher, but then standards deteriorated somewhat by time he joined).

Participants were recruited from two hospital sites in Melbourne (Australia), and were administered the standard QOLIBRI (Quality of Life after Brain Injury) questionnaire plus two different measures assessing depression (the recent World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the much older Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-RRB-, a measure of demoralization (Demoralization Scale (DS)-RRB- and psychological distress (K10).

Testing the properties of the mental health measures used in older studies according to the standards of today is of great importance in longitudinal research.