Sentences with phrase «sole indicator»

«We could realize significant progress in public education if proponents of standards - based reform joined hands with critics of high - stakes testing and effectively outlawed the use of high - stakes tests as sole indicators of student success,» says Panasonic Foundation executive Scott Thompson in a Phi Delta Kappan article.

Focusing just on proficiency can be a misleading sole indicator of academic excellence, especially considering many Oakland students enter the classroom far behind grade level.

Web traffic can certainly be an important metric to your overall business goals, but, it is only one of many elements to consider when measuring the impact of your contentmarketing efforts and shouldn't be the sole indicator of success.

While links obviously aren't the sole indicator of a website's quality and information, they do have an impact on organic search.

I'm not a fan of using heart rate as a sole indicator of infant stress levels and here's why: our heart rates increase not just in response to stress, but also to our Central Nervous System arousal level (arousal level is similar to our wakefulness level).

As an IBCLC, I try to assess each of these factors and not just the weight gain as the sole indicator for a baby's overall wellness.

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David Willetts approaches these issues with great insight and understanding; Michael Gove is likewise simply too smart to claim that raw exam results are the sole indicator of one's intellectual acumen.

The results highlight that even though most satellite - based studies consider total forest cover as the sole indicator of success, lumping all forests together can lead to misleading conclusions about the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation strategy.»

Too much debate treats temperature (and especially the most recent global average) as the sole indicator, whereas many other factors are at play including sea levels, ocean acidity, ice sheets, ecosystem trends, and many more.

It doesn't seem that long ago that the amount of money and possessions you accumulated were considered the sole indicators of your success.

However, when used in high - stakes accountability, as the sole indicator of an individual student's achievement or the quality of a single school or school district, these tests can be imprecise.

And that brings us to those unanswered questions: Can the charter - school movement grow to sufficient scale for long - term political sustainability if we continue to use «quality» — as measured by such factors as test scores — as the sole indicator of a successful school?

Ted Mitchell, president of the State Board of Education and chairman of the task force, said the total number of fired teachers shouldn't be the sole indicator of improved evaluations.

David Osborne admitted that test scores are not the sole indicator of good schools.

Current accountability approaches, however, usually rely on large - scale standardized test scores as the sole indicator of teachers» effectiveness.

But, the payoff varies over time; a heavy reliance on the dividend yield of the market as a sole indicator is not advised.

While ranked dogs are a plus, rank itself is not a sole indicator of quality.

Black might traditionally be associated with negative space and the absence of light and color, but in Witek's case it functions as the sole indicator of mark and form.

Just as focusing too much on growth or the Dow or GDP as the sole indicators of economic progress, when happiness levels or a quality of life do a better job of assessing the health of an economy, to see tall buildings as better signs of economic progress than reducing poverty or increasing public education is a symptom of a broken value system in western society.

However, the Luxembourg measure failed the necessity test because it employed residency as the sole indicator of such connection.

According to Apple's press materials, the neural engine performs «up to 600 billion operations per second» to help speed AI tasks (although this stat is hard to put in proper context; operations - per - second is never the sole indicator of performance).

Do not allow a year - end performance review to be the sole indicator of your success and potential future at a company.