Sentence examples for a primary measure of from inspiring English sources

About 40 percent of the teachers and parents surveyed said they were pessimistic that levels of student achievement would increase in the coming years, despite the focus on test scores as a primary measure of quality of a teacher's work.

But Mr. Christie, deciding the compromise had severely weakened the state's ability to carry out measures derided by the union — like establishing merit pay for individual teachers, using student test scores as a primary measure of a teacher's performance and making it tougher for teachers to get tenure — rejected the agreement announced on May 27.

(Because a primary measure of density was then specific gravity, no circularity arises here).

(+1/+0)  Evaluation of results   IHS recommended    Is the percentage of patients pain-free at 2 h used as a primary measure of efficacy?

(+1/+0)  Evaluation of results   IHS recommended    Is frequency of migraine attacks per 4 weeks used as a primary measure of efficacy?

There is a need to identify a primary measure of infant pain that can be used to assess pain in infants undergoing vaccine injections in order to facilitate vaccine outcomes research.

TUG may be most useful in ruling in those with a high risk of falling rather than as a primary measure in the ascertainment of risk.

It is not a recommended primary measure of efficacy, like the number of headache days, and it does not necessarily parallel a reduction in headache frequency.

As described in the introduction, this is an example of a primary measure, where workload is inferred directly from the performance of the individual.

We considered target sensitivity (A) as the primary measure of performance.

But they are not, because this government and the last Labour administration have continued with a drugs policy whose primary measure of outcome is the number of users, rather than the harms of drug or alcohol use.