Sentence examples for gauge of ability from inspiring English sources

The unions have also fought the use of test scores in tenure decisions, saying they were an unfair gauge of ability and would turn classrooms into test-preparation mills.

Most said that their solvency ratios a key gauge of their ability to pay out on policy obligations weakened in the six months to the end of September.

Manuel Pellegrini was entitled to praise his team but a better gauge of their ability will come if they are drawn against one of the tournament favourites because they certainly got lucky being paired against a side with Dynamo's limitations.

The size and intensity of these sniffs turn out to be important gauges of olfactory ability.

NEW YORK TIMES   New Stress Tests Planned  |  The Federal Reserve will release results next year of a new round of "stress tests," to gauge the ability of the six biggest banks to withstand a hypothetical market shock tied to the European crisis.

Indeed, it is common practice to use measures of average association to gauge the ability of a factor to discriminate future cases of disease.

The inclusion of only four teachers also limits the generalizability of this pilot study; specifically, future research should focus on a larger sample of teachers to gauge the ability of diverse teachers to implement the strategies effectively.

WALL STREET JOURNAL   Results Pending on Japanese Bank Stress Tests  |  As early as this summer, the International Monetary Fund is expected to release the results of tests intended to gauge the ability of Japanese banks to withstand economic strains, a Japanese business newspaper reported, according to Reuters.

We used information from the target system to generate scenarios of population change and gauge the ability of the current sampling to meet monitoring goals.

The aim of this would be to gauge the ability of the practice to arrange a multidisciplinary event in which the commitment of the group would be assessed.

Measures of association are frequently used to gauge the ability of a categorization to predict future outcomes.