Using a newly developed 66-indicator policy rating index, data pertaining to ECE settings that serve 3- to 5-year-olds were gathered from the written policies of all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
As an early warning indicator, policy makers should consider those areas where moderate agreement between satisfaction factors and incentives has been observed.
"Numbers, rating and ranking catch people's attention and make information easy to process," saysJudith Kelley of Duke University, who studies the impact of global indicators on policy.
In the globalised world, the greenhouse gas emission and water consumption are increasingly important indicators for policy and decision making.
Combining annual indices of species sharing ecological affinities or a protected/red list status further provides biodiversity indicators for policy makers.
In contrast to current approaches, it utilizes the consideration of contextual user management data and key performance indicators for policy detection and refinement and offers result visualization techniques that foster human understanding.
This demonstrates the urgency for more commercialisation-related indicators that policy makers can implement if they are committed to encouraging more firms to license and commercialise public science (Cheah and Zalan 2013).
The first of these new ventures will be at the nexus of data and news and will produce clear analytical reporting and writing on opinion polls, economic indicators, politics, policy, education, and sports.
Much less has been written on standards, indicators or policy frameworks for children's participation.
Much less has been written on standards, indicators or policy frameworks for childrens participation.
Disability Adjusted Life Years – or other forms of aggregated health measures – can be very attractive indicators for policy makers.
