Sentences with phrase «readily available measures»

First, assuming readily available measures of teacher effectiveness actually measure true teacher effectiveness, an assumption to which we return below, the differences between seniority and effectiveness - based layoffs are larger and more persistent than we anticipated.

However test scores are simple, readily available measures; so policy - makers embrace them, even when they are inappropriate.

Therefore, for calculation purposes, the most readily available measure to use is the NAV but if you need to calculate more precise performance, then you can use the intraday net asset value (iNAV) if available.

Not exact matches

The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index (Wilshire 5000) measures the performance of all U.S. equity securities with readily available price data.

MZM has become one of the preferred measures of money supply because it better represents money readily available within the economy for spending and consumption.

The unemployment rate is a measure of unemployed individuals in the age group of 16 - 64 years who have been actively seeking work over the past four weeks and are readily available to start working within the next two weeks.

(For example: American recipes might say «one stick of butter» - this translates to 8 tablespoons or 100 grams) You might find it worthwhile to invest in some «cups» and «measuring spoons» as well as a small kitchen scales (all readily available in most asda, tesco, etc) to help you get to grips with correct measurements.

The pH and nutrient concentration should be measured and adjusted daily and good meters are readily available.

In a setting in which particular resources are unavailable (or additional steps must be taken to access them), it's highly likely that they will be used less than when they are readily available, and that's a problem with using resource usage (transfusion, ICU admission) as a measure.

«Pinches» of salt and sugar seem easier to explain to a mother in the clinic or on discharge from the ward than the correct «measures» even where spoons and other measures are readily available.

Assuring that all the necessary measures have been put in place to guarantee the success of the programme, Nana Akufo - Addo indicated that to ensure fertilizer is readily available to the farmer at affordable prices, government has reduced the prices of fertiliser by 50 %.

The measure would drug more readily available amid heightened concerns over the impact of the heroin and opioid addiction in New York.

From a practical perspective, these findings suggest that more complicated and expensive body fat measurement does not provide an advantage in assessing mortality risk over more readily available and less expensive obesity measures such as BMI or waist circumference.

This progesterone is available to the body for use, and readily filters through the saliva glands into saliva where it can be measured accurately.

By the same token, blood tests for the steroid hormones make the mistake of measuring the hormones that are bound to proteins, while saliva tests measure the hormones that are readily available to our bodies.

Moreover, years of schooling are easily measured, and data on years attained, both over time and across individuals, are readily available.

They had a model readily available, the AP roster of courses, and a measure of success, the AP test results for BASIS students.

Moreover, quantity of schooling is easily measured, and long - term data on years attained are readily available.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

Now that test - score data for many countries over an extended period of time are readily available, it is possible to supplement measures of educational attainment with these more direct measures of cognitive skills.

«Beginning with first - time ninth grade students in 2018 - 2019, graduation requirements shall include a requirement that students either (i) complete an Advanced Placement, honors, or International Baccalaureate course or (ii) earn a career and technical education credential that has been approved by the Board, except when a career and technical education credential in a particular subject area is not readily available or appropriate or does not adequately measure student competency, in which case the student shall receive satisfactory competency - based instruction in the subject area to earn credit.

(While these ratings are the best readily - available measure of a bond's safety, be aware that these ratings proved to be unreliably optimistic for a small number of high - profile companies during the 2008 financial crisis.)

Only two measures, price - to - sales (P / S) and P / B rarely have a negative denominator, and book value is readily available on essentially all companies through decades of history.

This index includes virtually all of the U.S. equity securities for which prices are readily available and thus represents one of the broadest measures of the U.S. stock market.

We have now come to realize that this is an important part of research for many, and decided to make something readily available for those that inquire about what our dogs do to use as a measuring stick for what they can expect their Cher Car Kennels puppies to enjoy.

This is useful in a directional selection programme because improvements may be achieved by indirect selection, for example, by using alternative tests that are readily available rather than direct selection for traits that may occur later in life or that may be difficult or expensive to measure.

A number of design and technology measures are readily available to increase a truck's fuel efficiency, including: low - rolling resistance tires, more efficient engines, devices to reduce idling and aerodynamic drag, and predictive cruise control.

I am suggesting using the Great Lakes as a broader measure, homogenizing many local areas into a much larger water shed basin with a reasonable historical measurement archive readily available.

Since this is 7Watts / m ^ 2 higher than the actual measured average and is more than a full Watt / m ^ 2 higher than any value measured in the past 31 years, if one were to criticize someone for violating science protocol it would not be Roy Spencer whose basic data and computations are readily available for scrutiny by anyone who whishes to do so; it is Trenberth for using contrived values for OLR in his energy balance computations instead of using actual physical data measured directly by satellites.

The Green Grid Academy will be launched, which is a set of readily available training materials to help end users like operators and IT how to deploy industry standard measures and metrics into their facility.

Their study concluded that readily available energy conservation measures installed in old and new buildings would offer an energy supply greater than what we could get from the Alaskan North Slope, or domestic oil production in the continental U.S., or an overly optimistic prediction of nuclear energy output.

«It is for these reasons, perhaps, that access to justice data is not readily available — such outcomes are not measured because they are not intended.»

They need only take» reasonable measures», which is fairly subjective sounding... I know... But it just means that it's a fact dependent analysis taking into consideration all of the facts that are readily available.

National coordination is in service of the common goal of making a larger amount of useful data more readily available to empirical researchers in order to enhance the capacity of justice systems to empirically measure program performance and evaluate user outcomes.

They are readily available for consumers who combine family policies, use one insurance company for several types of coverage, or take other measures such as using theft deterrents or maintaining good driving records.

It seems that the best we can hope is for Zuckerberg to value his users» online privacy the way he values his own online privacy: enough to make basic privacy measures easy and readily available to them, while acknowledging that their data will probably never be 100 percent safe in his hands.

Yet survey tools are readily available, are free or low - cost to use, and an intelligently designed and implemented employee survey program can be used to measure employee performance, satisfaction, and identify areas for improvement.