Sentences with phrase «such as measures»

Often measures yielding important information on how the parent changes over time, such as measures of parent depression, parenting stress, parenting competence or confidence, or parenting practice are used.

Schools should also enact systems and structures to track and continuously improve social - emotional learning practice and outcomes such as measures of school climate, student behavior, and academic achievement.

Some differential treatment, such as measures to redress past discrimination, or to protect the culture and language of a particular ethnic group, is aimed at ensuring that the recipients of this treatment enjoy their human rights to the same extent as others.

The author proposes the use of more meaningful data such as measures of college remediation and degree completion as well as qualitative measures produced by school visit panels.

States should also measure a variety of indicators, including those outside of a school's control, such as measures of resource equity, to better support improvement.

In order to support schools in this process, states and districts should collect and report data on a variety of indicators, such as measures that may be leading indicators for early warning systems.

In addition, seven more states are using enrichment or environment indicators, such as measures of a well - rounded education.

Incorporate important nonacademic factors such as measures of school climate, safety, and parental engagement.

To support continuous improvement, accountability systems should also include indicators that are appropriate to examine at the district or state level, such as measures of resource equity.

States can also look to other measures that are currently in use at the state and local levels, such as measures of student engagement or school climate.

Along these lines, the House Democrats» (unsuccessful) substitute languageincluded «equity indicators» beyond reading and math scores, such as measures for student engagement, discipline, access to courses, academic growth, and more.

Observation scores should be adjusted for student demographics, such as measures based as test scores already are.

It is an independent institution which will have to meet certain governmental mandates, such as the measures announced today by the Department of Health.

Cuomo and lawmakers in both chambers did agree on other important legislation, such as measures to address the scourge of heroin and opioid abuse and to attack the problem of zombie homes.

Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as measures of central bank independence, the use of monetary policy rules, freedom to use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.

The book has more of a consumer - goods angle, but many of the ideas explored — such as measuring customers» lifetime value — also apply to business - to - business settings.

The realization of human rights requires certain minimum conditions such as a measure of equality.

Physical measuring standards, such as measuring rods and pendulums, simply would function to reveal these structures of absolute space and absolute time which contain those standards.

Other methods, such as measuring the stress hormone cortisol, require a 20 - minute delay and are not nearly as precise, explains Rogosch.

Wolpert's work is an effort to create a formal rigorous description of processes such as measuring a quantity, observing a phenomenon, predicting a system's future state or remembering past information a description that is general enough to be independent of the laws of physics.

First, researchers must consider the time frame for assessing symptoms of depression, such as measuring symptoms at both the beginning and end of treatment and distinguishing between lifetime versus current symptoms.

Also, the machine learning software can help experimental physicists by allowing them to perform virtual measurements that would be hard to do in the laboratory, such as measuring the degree of entanglement of a system composed of many interacting qubits.

As a result, the team has turned to other projects funded by outside groups, such as measuring methane emissions from natural gas fields in Utah (ClimateWire, Aug. 7).

As well as the detection of explosives, chemical weapons and drugs, there is a broad array of other possible applications, such as measuring food quality, health (breath analysis), environmental monitoring, and even geological monitoring (volcanoes) and agriculture (detecting pests).

Throughout this process, the algorithm keeps track of which pixels came from the original scans and which were filled in afterward, so that analyses done later, such as measuring the extent of brain damage, can be performed only on information from the original scans.

Some of the most impressive progress along this path has come from using noncontact - atomic force microscopy (NC - AFM), such as measuring individual chemical bonds using a carbon monoxide - functionalized tip.

To complement planting, teachers can download cross-curricular Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 resources from the Woodland Trust website; with topics such as measuring and exploring a hedge, food chains, storytelling and natural craft ideas.

Her position on issues such as measuring teachers using student test scores has changed over the years.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

The test found that 54 % of California's fourth - graders are not mastering essential basic skills such as measuring something longer than a ruler.

Students in Third Grade will continue learning about different types of measuring, such as measuring the contents of a container (Capacity) and the Weight of small objects.

They will also measure to the nearest «part» of a unit, such as measuring to the nearest 1/2 inch or 1/4 inch, or to the nearest centimeter.

Students in 2nd Grade will begin learning about different types of measuring, such as measuring the contents of a container (Capacity) and the Weight of small objects.

Instead, she engages them with hands - on lessons, such as measuring their arms and comparing that data to solve above - grade - level subtraction problems.

Assigned based on business categories, these in - house reps are available to assist with things such as booth space, sponsorships, magazine ads, Show registration, as well as non-Show programs, such as Measuring Sessions, Tech Transfer, research, education and more.

Using the feature, you can use the handset to enjoy augment reality enabled games and utilities, so those virtual objects and info will overlay onto the real world, and you can also interact with them such as measuring items with just the phone, seeing how furniture or decor will look in your room, raising virtual pets and more.

It's a dual - lense set - up that allows you to do things such as measure the distance between objects in a photo, refocus a picture after shooting it and apply filters to different layers of your images.

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PetSmart uses in - store cameras for security purposes and for operational purposes such as measuring and observing customer traffic patterns.

Another is having an internal control, such as measuring changes in a given parameter.

Meanwhile, across the country in Los Angeles County, voters were considering way much more interesting topics such as Measure B («Safer Sex In the Adult Film Industry Act»), i.e., the issue of whether porn actors should be required to wear condoms when filming in L.A. County.

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Embedded directly into the A9 chip, the M9 motion coprocessor connects to the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope for a range of fitness tracking capabilities, such as measuring your steps and distance.

The patent additionally describes how a device, such as an Apple Watch or iPhone, might detect the difference between a regular speaking voice and a whisper through techniques such as measuring the input's amplitude and frequency patterns.

You could consider it rather expensive for what it does — or doesn't do, rather — because the other smartwatches may be more clunky, but they can do a lot more, such as measure your heart rate whenever you want.

Agricultural and food science technicians assist agricultural and food scientists by performing duties such as measuring and analyzing the quality of food and agricultural products.

Their job description may also consist of tasks such as measuring patients» vital signs, helping the physician in examining the patient, preparing patients» blood for laboratory tests, and administering injections on patients as directed by the physician.

Basic tasks such as measuring patients» body temperature, blood pressure, taking readings from monitoring equipment and performing basic tests on them are carried out by LVNs.

As part of their job, these professionals complete duties such as measuring lumber, reading blueprints, building scaffolds, constructing forms for pouring concrete, and travelling between job sites.

A medical assistant's role often involves significant patient contact, such as measuring vital signs, handling instruments, collecting bodily fluids and tissues for lab work.