Sentences with phrase «standard measuring stick»

And what they're doing is filling that gap, the social and environmental version of generally accepted accounting principles, so that we have a standard measuring stick that we can use to assess the social and environmental quality, along with the financial quality, of a business.

I recently did a series on Aeroplan miles and used Calgary — Toronto route as my standard measuring stick.

And not all of them, including the category he added years later — naturalistic — could be easily evaluated by the standard measuring stick of the time: the IQ test.

Not exact matches

I use standard measuring cups and spoons.Check my my measuring spoons and cups For this recipe you can use any cup but stick to the measurments.

The gold standard for measuring adrenal hormones is a blood draw (i.e., sticking a needle in a vein to draw blood) and then run a serum test in a laboratory.

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

But the longer the Core sticks around out in the field, the more obvious it becomes that the Core is anti-content — particularly once you throw in the Core - based standards - measuring Big Standardized Tests.

Then, there needs to be a renewed sense of political courage to select an appropriate assessment to measure student mastery of state standards and stick with it for at least several years.

An added safety measure for the new Nissan is an Anti-lock Braking System that now comes standard on the 1.8 S model, while sticking around as a standard offering on the 1.8 SL.

An added safety measure for the Nissan is an Anti-lock Braking System that now comes standard on the 1.8 S model, while sticking around as a standard offering on the 1.8 SL.

In metrology, measuring sticks must be traceably calibrated against standard tools of measurement, which must further be traced to primary standards based on physical constants, such as units of wavelength of light that have low measures of uncertainty.

This would be the measuring stick that Nintendo and Sony would have to live up to and Sony did its best to start the out as close to the standard set by Microsoft as possible, as well promise their user - base expanding services (HOME).

Rather than using perfection or a comparison to someone else's high standard as a measuring stick, we are trying to use simplicity as one of our main standards for making decisions.