The aim of the CSE project is not simply to search for or borrow a yardstick against which learners' proficiency can be measured, but to develop, validate and continuously improve the yardstick.
A better yardstick is education.
By virtually every material yardstick, life has improved.
But as the net permeates society, says Mr Schneier, "expect to see more of this kind of thing in future".Finally, SQL Slammer provides a yardstick for how internet security has improved since Nimda, which struck shortly after September 11th 2001.
Our proposal is akin to the now well-recognized 'What would my patients or colleagues think?' yardstick to improve physician-industry relations [ 12].
To underline the pressing need for improvement and to provide a yardstick for future progress, the UPU has adopted, for the Second and Third United Nations Development Decades, certain key planning objectives, covering management, quality of service, promotion of its financial services, and improved public information.
Using regular activities as a yardstick does not necessarily improve health outcomes for men or their ability to maintain their health, and/or recover from illness.
If he allows them to score, he may cost his team a game, but he can still improve his earned run average, the main yardstick of his success, along the way.
By Buchanan's yardstick J.C. Penney looks good, improving its capital efficiency from 13.1 in the 12 months leading up to the January quarter to 16.1 in the period ending in April (see table "Other People's Money").
In the experimental analysis, we find that the advantage of the discriminatory yardstick in terms of giving incentives to improve productive efficiency exceeds the disadvantage of a relatively higher risk of collusion.
