Sentences with phrase «measuring your progress instead»

With goals, you are measuring your progress instead of succeeding or failing.

Not exact matches

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

The measure of his success is instead whether this week's progress toward an agreement could have been made months ago, before the economy sank back into recession, depositors yanked 30 billion euros ($ 34 billion) from banks and jobs started to vanish.

Progress can be measured in the amount of «validated learning» or lessons instead of just measuring the reduced amount of sugar grams you eat over the week.

Instead, you should measure your progress by tracking body composition.

Instead, nutritionists advise that you chart your diet progress by how much healthier you feel, any increase in your strength and endurance, and a change in body - fat composition ratio, among other measures.

To cross the chasm between grades and true preparation for college and beyond, our systems will need to do more than eliminating the doomsday «F»: they must move away from measuring progress in instructional hours and instead embrace competency - based approaches.

These teaching paradigms (by no means unique) do provide an avenue to individually evaluate progress instead of measuring one student versus another.

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

The use of gain scores also minimizes the incentives for classifying a nondisabled student as disabled, since such scores measure individual progress instead of lowering the achievement bar.

EW: What dies the NEA recommend, instead of high - stakes testing, to measure student progress and show more accountability?

The aim of Progress 8 is to replace the percentage of pupils gaining five good GCSEs as the headline measure of school accountability, instead judging schools on «value added» through the duration of a pupils time there.

Targets have also led to students thinking more about what they need to do to improve, instead of waiting for the teacher to hand them a grade to measure their progress.

He proposes to preserve testing requirements but create a better measuring stick, require teachers be evaluated by performance (not credentials), and use carrots instead of sticks to encourage progress.

The question should instead be, «If scales from a testing regime are used within a value - added process, is there evidence that measures of student progress are influenced by the distribution of student achievement levels in schools or classrooms because of a lack of equal - interval scales?»

Maybe, instead of forcing tests that don't inform teachers on how to help their students, we become adamant about using multiple measures to gauge progress.

The snapshots do not rank or grade states but instead provide data points aligned with each of the five whole child tenets — which contend that each student must be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — so that each state can measure its individual progress and compare its successes and challenges to the other states and to the nation as a whole.

Instead two new league - table measures will be introduced, examining the percentage of pupils who reach a set threshold in English and maths, and an average points score showing how much progress each child makes between the end of primary school and GCSE level in eight subjects.

But Julie McCulloch, primary specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said a new baseline assessment in reception was «good for children and schools» because «schools will be given credit for a pupil's progress through their whole time at primary school from the age of four to 11, instead of the current system which measures progress only from the age of seven.»

Instead, Miller wants California to use data from this spring's Common Core field tests, known as the Smarter Balanced assessment, to measure student progress.

Instead, Measured Progress has contracted American Institutes for Research (AIR) to deploy a

States will be able to override NCLB requirements such as the mandate for 100 percent proficiency by 2014 and making the measure of «adequate yearly progress» by raw performance instead of growth, instead creating their own accountability systems with higher standards.

This also means annual testing in every grade — instead of grade - span testing they prefer — in order to longitudinally measure their academic (and ultimately, economic and social) progress of all children.

Instead, Measured Progress has contracted American Institutes for Research (AIR) to deploy a proprietary system that has been used successfully in other states and field tested in Montana and North Dakota.

Instead they should consider using a mix of value added or progress measures, classroom observations and pupil surveys.

Instead, Finnish teachers write the tests to measure their students» progress.

Instead of measuring the so - called «contextual value added» inspectors will look at the «value added» of how much progress pupils make from when they arrive in the school.

By breaking the challenge into all its parts, and measuring progress with tangible success metrics, instead of intangible failure avoidance metrics, we make the journey ahead more meaningful, more interesting, more fun, and more promising.

The advice includes walking in a straight line, as the game measures straight - line distances between locations for progress, and evolving weaker Pokémon instead of waiting to evolve stronger Pokémon to gain levels faster.