This new car has improved in every measurable way over the previous gen, and in a few
objective measures too — it's a great car.
Not exact matches
By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to
measure student performance, NCLB created
objective standards that could be used for other purposes,
too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.
More sophisticated and
objective performance task
measures are still, for the most part, either
too expensive or still in development.
Also recall that one of the key reports that triggered the current call for VAMs, as the «more
objective»
measures needed to
measure and therefore improve teacher effectiveness, was based on data that suggested that «
too many teachers» were being rated as satisfactory or above.
Regrettably, shelters all
too often use reported numbers as a marketing device and not as an
objective measure of performance.
Perhaps it is
too harsh to call a failure to obtain an
objective measure of the child's behavior outside the home a «methodological shortcoming,» but the philosophy behind the intervention work of Patterson and his colleagues (e.g., Patterson et al., 1993) is that antisocial behavior outside the home has its origins in the home.