Sentences with phrase «on objective measures»

• Enact federal infrastructure allocation formulas based on objective measures of costs, need, and benefits — and require states and localities to do the same.

The committee will review and comment on the objective measures used in the diagnosis of PTSD and known risk factors for the development of PTSD.

(Other government reps were supportive of a broader contribution, it must be said, and the emphasis on objective measures was intended to be helpful to getting our recommendations accepted.)

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

These two indices, based on objective measures, are assembled by a team of experts and reported for over 150 countries each year.

Faced with these challenges, the administration has relaxed its aggressive timetables for states to begin evaluating all teachers based on objective measures of student learning, such as standardized test scores.

[xi] Teacher associations, for their part, continue to push back against teacher evaluation systems that focus on objective measures of student achievement and provide any meaningful differentiation between teachers.

10th International Symposium on Objective Measures in Auditory Implants (OMAI), Oct 9 - 12, 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel http://objectivemeasures.org/

«Girls need to know that they are scoring as well as their male counterparts on these objective measures and that they can be successful in mathematics - intensive careers,» says Wilson.

Whilst some studies have found increased postural sway during quiet standing and walking on level ground in patients with DPN, no data exist on objective measures of balance during stair walking.

Under the proposal, teacher evaluations would be based on both objective measures, like student performance on state tests, and subjective measures like «rigorous» classroom observation.

Evaluations will be based 40 percent on objective measures like test scores and 60 percent on subjective measures like classroom observation.

Agents had significantly better scores than did subjects on all objective measures.

Membership in Trial Masters, by contrast, is based on the objective measure of experience in the courtroom over a period of time:

Not exact matches

Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.

The results, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, are based on both subjective life - satisfaction surveys and objective measures of quality of life.

Stack's purpose in all this was to focus attention on common objectives, and to suggest in some small way that performance could be measured.

But for researchers or consumers seeking more nuanced health data, putting other objective measures on hospitals» Yelp landing pages would provide even more context about hospital performance.

And we'll strategically reassess your objectives, measure your achievement and goals, and organize our thoughts on the next steps of our journey together.

In science, such an utter failure on one's predictive track record is a fair and objective measure of the falsification of one's hypotheses.

Second, we had objective measures of Facebook use, pulled directly from participants» Facebook accounts, rather than measures based on a person's self - report.

Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.

Granted, one downside of using truly objective measures is that our ranking may not exclude CEOs who have disappointed stakeholders on dimensions where performance is more subjective.

While the prospectus objective identifies a fund's investment goals based on the wording in the fund prospectus, the Morningstar Category identifies funds based on their actual investment styles as measured by their underlying portfolio holdings (portfolio and other statistics over the past three years).

Unlike traditional index strategies that typically weight companies based on market capitalization, such as the S&P 500 Index, Fundamental Index strategies use objective financial measures based on company size.

Moreover, the measures are focused on long - term objectives, such as building infrastructure, that in most cases won't have a real near - term economic impact.

Still, regardless of whether or not a bear market has started, I believe the Fund remains on track to achieve its investment objective even when we measure the complete cycle from the 2002 bear trough to the next bear trough, whenever that occurs.

In my view, the necessary objective is to accept market risk when the likely return / risk profile is attractive, based on observable measures of valuation and market action, and to avoid, hedge, or diversify away those risks that don't carry attractive return / risk profiles on average.

Secondly, as Wesley Kort summarizes, our present conceptual system «is a system based on the ruthless exclusion of the personal, a systematic skepticism which renders the «I» an eye measuring mathematically the relations to one another of phenomena in the objective world.

The objective of the society of Mont - Pèlerin was on the one hand, to combat Keynesianism and the social solidarity measures that prevailed after the Second World War and, on the other hand, to prepare for the future the theoretical foundations of another kind of capitalism, hard and liberated from any rule.

It is true that there is, according to Aristotle, one privileged motion — the rotation of the sphere of the fixed stars — which measures accurately the objective flow of time; in its insistence on the close correlation of time with the universal celestial clock, Aristotle's theory of time remained relational.

Improvement on four objective measures was significantly related to subjects» belief in the power of prayer for others.

While maintaining a zero waste to landfill measure as a key metric, our objective has expanded to a broader focus on waste reduction and reuse opportunities.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

Measured, objective observation is great, but this was one of those nights where Rogan put on his headset as a fan, not a commentator.

The CIES claims to have an objective way of measuring footballing prospects across Europe, so it's not a surprise to see familiar names crop up on the list.

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

Roll call votes are the single available objective measure to evaluate legislators on their performance.

«In the Romanian context, SNE advocates for a comprehensive and objective impact assessment of the proposed restrictions, taking into account the impact that these measures would have on breastfeeding rates, and the nutritional status of infants and young children.

Recognising these challenges, the authorities prepared and discussed with the mission, a package of measures which would reduce the risk of expenditure overruns, in particular on the wage bill, and keep the 2016 budget outturn consistent with the programme objectives, with an overall cash deficit now projected at 4.8 percent of GDP.

John Cullinane added: «We hope the reviews that have just been announced lead on to more effective and routine post-legislative review of whether tax measures are achieving their objectives at an acceptable cost.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

«One option for achieving our objectives could be regulatory equivalence on agri - food measures, where the UK and EU agree to achieve the same outcome and high standards,» it says.

Programme type is a more direct and objective measure of the independent impact of IMF programmes compared to the proxy variable based on geographical location.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.

«When federal funds are distributed on the basis of objective measures of need, New York does well,» said Mauro.

But the objective problem is not the coalition agreement, as many Tories are quite happy to rebel against measures that went into the agreement on the nod because they were in both parties» manifestos.

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

«Football is the only major sport where on every single play, the objective is to violently hit the competition,» said Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, whose measure would bar youth football leagues from allowing anyone 13 or younger to tackle.