Sentences with phrase «only measure of the quality»

Not so long ago, the only measure of the quality of a professional development session was whether the participants were smiling when they left the room — and not just because it was over.

Under the old law, No Child Left Behind, the only measure of quality was the percentage of a school's students who scored at the proficient level on state tests.

Not exact matches

In the game of traditional banking, the measure of success of borrowing and lending depend only on a few things: the interest rate you borrow at, the interest rate you lend at, the quality of your loans, and the overhead of the bank.

«What the Healthy Diet Score does is provide individuals with an assessment that is relevant only to them, taking into consideration other people of the same age and gender, to let them know how their diet quality is measuring up,» said Professor Noakes.

As part of our sustainable manufacturing initiatives, we measure everything we do not only by its quality, but sustainability, too.

These are a little easier to track and measure, but still challenging to fully commit to since they are only moderately controllable, like the quality of passes or blocking that allows you to do your job well.

At time you feel like your worth is only measured by the quality and quantity of the milk you make.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Better understanding the cost of measures would not only inform decisions about which measures to use, but also guide future development of high - value measures that maximize benefit while optimizing use of finite quality measurement resources.

Because of this changing emphasis, the number and quality of your research publications may no longer be the only measure of whether you climb to the next rung of the academic ladder.

Results of the tool quality grading found that most outcome measures in the 22 trials received only a moderate rating because there was limited information on reliability, validity or sensitivity to treatment for the vast majority of them.

However, only 30 percent of respondents agreed strongly (4 %) or somewhat (26 %) that «measures of quality are [currently] generally accurate.»

Fewer than one - third of them believed that current quality measures were up to the task; only a little more than one - third were convinced that health plans and the government would «try hard to make such measures accurate.»

Through the adoption of standardized procedures and pipelines, and the usage of quality control measures and cross-validation, our shared goal is to produce high - quality data that will not only function as a scientific reference catalog, but will also enable comprehensive meta - analyses that could uncover otherwise hidden disease relationships and functional interactions.

Only 32 percent of responding internists strongly supported (5 percent) or somewhat supported (27 percent) public reporting of individual physicians» quality scores, and only 45 percent agreed strongly (8 percent) or somewhat (37 percent) with public reporting on the medical group level, even if the measures involved were accurOnly 32 percent of responding internists strongly supported (5 percent) or somewhat supported (27 percent) public reporting of individual physicians» quality scores, and only 45 percent agreed strongly (8 percent) or somewhat (37 percent) with public reporting on the medical group level, even if the measures involved were accuronly 45 percent agreed strongly (8 percent) or somewhat (37 percent) with public reporting on the medical group level, even if the measures involved were accurate.

Ask any senior woman who dates online about the quality of available men, and many insist that only a few measure up to their basic needs.

Romance isn't only measured by the quality of quantity of sex in your life, but it begins with adding random kind gestures into your activity list.

This along with Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us should be the measuring stick to which all other games compare not only their quality but their stories as well!

They paid an outside studio to do Wind Waker HD so it only took a little bit of Nintendo's resources as a quality control measure.

Such teachers notice and measure not only when students are on task but also the quality of their engagement.

The only reliable way to assess the quality of the education system is to measure the quality of the workers who have graduated from it.

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

With each percentage point improvement in measured teacher quality, a faculty member is 0.037 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking (standard error of 0.108), implying a difference in the h - index distribution of only two percentile points between the 25th and 75th percentile teachers.

Yet many states and localities measure program «quality» only in terms of proxies — the credentials of teachers, the size and spaciousness of the facilities, the amount of learning material available, and the length of the preschool day.

Creating formal assessment of these hard - to - measure qualities would not only help to elucidate whether students are making progress in these areas, but would help shift the attention back onto what's important.

Interestingly, we find that these measures are only weakly, if at all, associated with the likelihood of being hired, suggesting considerable scope for improving teacher quality through the hiring process.

At the same time, proficiency rates are the only quality measure available for a national sample of schools.

She also notes that if her system contradicts teachers» value - added scores, this too should «raise red flags» about the quality of the teacher, although she does not (in this article) pay any respect or regard for the issues not only inherent in value - added measures but also her observational system.

What evolved was a measurement framework that based its assessment of school quality on students» performance on only a single assessment (an invalid standard for measuring student progress) and mandated a series of wide - ranging sanctions that did not prove to significantly improve student or school performance.

The BJHS Touchstone is used to measure the quality of not only our character education initiative, but also the roles and responsibilities we each have in forging the relationships needed to continually improve our school.

Additional measures that have a critical impact on student achievement are reported only (not included in schools» ratings) such as access to quality state - funded preschool; half - day vs. full - day kindergarten; the percentage of first - year teachers; teacher turnover; teachers with certifications in their specialized area; career counselors / coaches; out - of - school suspensions; and whole child supports such as access to a school - based counselor or mental health services provider; nurse or health services provider; librarian / media specialist; and a family resource / youth service center.

School quality takes a back seat to marketing, as the only measure of success is a school's ability to attract students who bring public dollars with them.

But accountability simply means that states are responsible not only for adequate inputs like sufficient funding, ambitious course content standard, and high - quality instruction, but also for outputs like accurate measures of student learning and teacher effectiveness.

Most studies that have fueled alarm over the attrition and mobility rates of high - quality teachers have relied on proxy indicators of teacher quality, which recent research finds to be only weakly correlated with value - added measures of teachers» performance.

As of 2012, the vast majority of districts still had a salary schedule in place, and only 11 percent of districts used pay incentives to reward teachers for excellent performance, though the practice is increasing.78 And as states develop more effective ways to measure teacher quality, districts should be better able to incorporate performance data when making compensation decisions.

«We've been so focused on English / language arts and mathematics as measured by state standardized tests as the only indicator of quality and the only thing that matters,» Starr says.

Thus, the performance index not only provided an average measure of school quality, but also provided more fine - grained results to guide improvement (Schafer, 2003).

Worst of all was the ride quality, which was not only far from my expectations, but did not measure up to that from typical economy cars such as the Chevy Cruze or Mazda3.

Only genuine Toyota engine air filters meet the strict specifications and quality measures of an original Toyota factory part, so why trust your Toyota's engine to anything but an authentic OEM Toyota product?

Which is, of course, totally fine, but it creates a situation in these comparisons where the only measuring stick is build quality and, when you're dealing with heavy hitters like Apple and Amazon you know it's going to be equally good.

The agencies themselves are quick to point out their ratings are only opinions and, according to S&P, «should not be viewed as assurances of credit quality or exact measures of the likelihood of default.»

In academic circles, the most commonly used definition is profitability as measured by the gross - profits - to - assets ratio.3 The presumably homogeneous inputs make it an apt choice for identifying profitable companies, but it is not the only financial measure of a quality company.

In a study of Doberman Pinschers, 80 % of the dogs treated with pimobendan showed improvements in the quality ‑ of ‑ life measures (including exercise tolerance, coughing, dyspnea, and fatigue) compared with only 10 % in the group not treated with pimobendan.7

At the core of the data supplied to the Qatar Tourism Authority is the Guest Experience Index ™, the only scientifically backed quality measures in the hospitality industry, resulting from a cooperative effort between Olery and VU University Amsterdam.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

It was only through the draconian measures of Nintendo's Seal of Quality that the industry was saved.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Beyond underscoring just how powerful a role location plays in shaping perceptions, this argument is specious as it assumes that a nebulously defined standard of quality is the only benchmark on which legal services can and should be judged, and implicitly concludes that a retail firm can't measure up to its full service downtown firm counterparts.

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