Sentences with phrase «more meaningful measures»

While Mr Turnbull claimed Australia leads the world in green energy, the Australian Greens want him to back more meaningful measures than banning light bulbs.

Snow said she'd like to see more meaningful measures of how schools are closing the achievement gap for English learners, such as how quickly a student is able to move out of English - learner status, or finding a way to measure content knowledge without their language limitation being a factor in the score.

The authors see progress in establishing more meaningful measures of school quality despite the difficulty of comparing school quality across states.

Discrete tax items and tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments - The income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments relates to the tax effect of the adjustments that we incorporate into non-GAAP financial measures in order to provide a more meaningful measure of non-GAAP net income.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

States that make teacher licensure exams a more meaningful measure of readiness to teach can ensure that teachers are better prepared before entering classrooms of their own.

Pettis: It isn't until you write down the debt associated with the second bridge that you end up with a more meaningful measure of GDP.

Global energy imbalance (Fig. 15b) is a more meaningful measure of planetary status as well as an estimate of the climate forcing change required to stabilize climate.

Population density is a more meaningful measure.

But the picture is quite different when energy expenditures are viewed in absolute dollar terms — a more meaningful measure.

Not exact matches

She announced interim measures that include assessing a pipeline's impact on greenhouse gas emissions and «more meaningful consultation» with aboriginals.

«The Liberal government has once again demonstrated that they are more interested in their public image than meaningful and measured criminal law reform.

Measured in real dollars per capita — the more meaningful gauge — it will be 12 per cent higher.

Chad thinks that the answer «big invisible sky wizard did it with magic spells» is somehow more meaningful than «we know very little and we're still testing and measuring to get more information.»

Or, depending on who you ask, it was a monumental disappointment, a heap of compromises and half - measures in the state budget and later an anti-climatic finish that seemed more about sticking it to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and boozing it up at brunch than doing anything all that meaningful.

So today I'm proposing a more balanced and meaningful accountability system, with two new measures:

Or would the idea of propping up a Labour Party willing to pursue constitutional reform and meaningful environmental measures suddenly become a more attractive partner, even if they remained the second biggest party in Parliament.

«While acknowledgement of failure is an important step, whether this administration is serious about changing more than just rhetoric will be measured by whether disciplinary action is swift, meaningful and comprehensive,» Bandele said in a statement.

Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.

The study compared physician - led ACOs to other types of ACOs and found that physician - led ACOs were more likely to have comprehensive care management programs in place and advanced IT capabilities.They are also more likely to measure and report financial and quality performance at the clinician level and to provide meaningful and timely feedback to clinicians.

Because numerous scales measured negative or positive affect, we chose scales that were common to the other trials and the most clinically relevant to make comparisons more meaningful.

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

Through providing this necessary context and entertainment through storytelling, your eLearning course — whatever its ultimate purpose — will be a more meaningful experience, and one that benefits both you and your audience in equal measure.

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And student performance will be a key factor, something schools will measure in a much more meaningful way.

The point of these strategies is not just to measure students» progress, but also to give feedback and adjust instruction so you can provide more meaningful learning opportunities.

[4] As the use of value - added models now allow for the development of a more meaningful understanding of teacher effectiveness, districts should ensure that performance pay systems consider both qualitative and quantitative measures in order to fairly assess and compensate teachers for their performance.

Suggestions range from offering students an array of extracurricular activities and extended - day learning opportunities to establishing more meaningful accountability systems that encompass a variety of subjects and use multiple measures of student performance.

The test results on a shorter «snapshot» of student achievement could, then, be put in proper perspective with more meaningful authentic measures of student learning, reflected in daily school performance, portfolio and long - term projects, report card information, graduation rate statistics, and school climate surveys.

«Technology is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work, and we must leverage it to provide engaging and powerful learning experiences and content, as well as resources and assessments that measure student achievement in more complete, authentic, and meaningful ways» (National Ed.

The author proposes the use of more meaningful data such as measures of college remediation and degree completion as well as qualitative measures produced by school visit panels.

While it could be argued it is based around a curriculum (including its range of «academic» GCSEs) that is not necessarily suited to all students at secondary moderns, the fact it takes into account the starting point for students in a school means it marks an extremely welcome step towards a much more meaningful accountability measure.

One of the most effective measures of meaningfulness may be the amount of more appropriate, student - friendly policies, rules, or guidelines adapted in order to promote, ensure, and sustain Meaningful Student Involvement.

In my view, the levers have not changed as a result of the evolving accountability systems, which will hopefully become more meaningful for schools due to broader, more appropriate measures of achievement.

Intrepid Endurance, a slightly more - flexible version of Mr. Cinnamond's fund, finished first on every meaningful measure of risk - adjusted performance: highest Sharpe ratio, highest Sortino ratio, highest Martin ratio, lower Ulcer Index, lowest maximum drawdown, shortest recovery period... and it returned a respectable 8.2 % per year, well ahead of its peers.

We varied the holding period of the portfolios, varied the number of asset classes in the portfolios, measured the performance of actively managed portfolios that held more than one fund in each asset class, and tested a subset of active funds with lower fees to see if there was a meaningful change in the active fund portfolio success rate.»

Further, there are other ways to measure performance that may be more meaningful than one - year results overall.

We intentionally designed our app so the viewer would see once piece of art at a time (iPad its primarily on your wall, and iPhone its in a card view), so that we could measure engagement in a much more meaningful way than most platforms.

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.

Until you're measuring ALL sources and sinks of CO2, you have more questions than answers regarding where the increase in atmospheric CO2 levels is coming from — IF you even had a meaningful measurement of the «increase.»

Critique of prisoner isolation is driven by the more problematic aspects of the practice that defy justification: the isolation of the mentally ill; isolation for petty reasons; indefinite isolation; isolation in lieu of appropriate safety measures; isolation to address overcrowding; isolation for excessive periods of time; lack of procedural safeguards for decision making and reviews; isolation in punitive conditions of confinement; failure to deliver meaningful mental and physical health care; and a lack of programs and social contact to ameliorate the effects of isolation.

Although «eyeballs» (i.e., unique visitors and page views) are significant, there are other, more meaningful ways to measure popularity and influence.

Can we measure our value in more meaningful terms than the number of hours we've worked or the number of cases we've managed?

Building upon the technical / substantive distinction, the Committee avers that Parliament should identify for more detailed scrutiny those statutory instruments that involve matters of significant policy interest or principle and should develop mechanisms to ensure meaningful scrutiny for these measures.

5) In order to provide the public, consumers, stakeholders, and insurers with meaningful information on its auto insurance oversight and regulatory activities, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario should report timely information on its performance, including outcome - based measures and targets that more appropriately represent its key regulatory activities and results.

Firms really need to understand that the priorities of your associates have far more to do with doing meaningful work, having purpose, being engaged and working in a supportive and collaborative culture than they do with remuneration, bonuses and all of the other stuff the profession tends to measure itself by.

As shown in the data below, it is this decision which emerges as the most meaningful distinction between fathers; on nearly every measure of relationship quality and prenatal involvement, fathers who attend the birth are far more similar to each other — regardless of whether or not they sign the AOP — than either group is to fathers who never show up.

Jacobson methodology, in distinguishing between improvement and recovery on a standardized measure of general vulnerability to anxiety, provides a stringent but clinically more meaningful evaluation of the efficacy of psychological therapies with GAD than has been available hitherto.