The phrase "a yardstick for measuring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a standard or benchmark for evaluating something.
Example: "The new policy serves as a yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of our current strategies."
Alternatives: "a standard for assessment" or "a benchmark for evaluation".
Now known as the Astronomical Unit, this distance is a yardstick for measuring the solar system.
At least the report offers a yardstick for measuring future failures.
The mortgage industry has a yardstick for measuring the size of those profits.
In the years since I have used the experience as a yardstick for measuring my own happiness.
The goal of that work went beyond verifying inflation, since the spectrum should function as a yardstick for measuring some of the most important cosmic characteristics.
If there are no unconventional weapons in Iraq, it will be important to prove that fact as conclusively as possible as a yardstick for measuring faulty intelligence.
Yet another method is to use sound waves from the hot, early days of the universe, which have left an imprint on the distribution of galaxies today — a 500-million-light-year "bump" — as a cosmic yardstick for measuring the universe as it grew.
Since their advent in 1955, A.P. exams have become both a virtual prerequisite for admission to elite colleges and a handy yardstick for measuring high-performing school districts.
Setting a global yardstick for measuring success, Modi has embraced technology with as much enthusiasm as fellow Gujarati Mahatma Gandhi rejected the trappings of western civilisation a century ago.
As the largest and most comprehensive university of the State University of New York's 64 campuses, Buffalo is a good yardstick for measuring just how far New York has traveled — yet how short it has fallen from Nelson A. Rockefeller's vision of creating a premier public university system.
Dunga's mix of the the iron boot and the velvet elbow is a good yardstick for measuring the on-field state of FIFA football, globally.
