These are "lead measures," because they are driving the outcome in advance of the measurement of that outcome.
Italians swallowed these measures because they were keen to be founder members of Europe's single currency.
Graduation rates complement standardized test measures because they also capture all requirements for graduation, both academic and non-academic.
Fiscal monitors say it is harder to compute the effect of the Democratic candidates' measures because they are more intricate.
Public school supporters fiercely opposed the measures because they diverted resources from already stretched-to-the-limit education budgets.
The state's Democratic Party chairman, Jay Jacobs, said he had opposed the measures because they could "embarrass the governor".
It is shown that among several ITQ evaluated, two of them emerge as good measures because they are independent of parameters used for their statistical determination.
The other two in that category were not put into special measures because they have made enough progress since they were inspected.
Israeli officials argue that international monitors would focus unfairly on their military measures, because they are easier to track than Palestinian suicide bombers.
The researchers selected these measures because they are both easy to obtain and, according to medical literature, can be improved within two years by medical intervention.
Indeed, even if a plant uses one aggregate measure, it still makes sense to use single-factor measures because they help identify the sources of aggregate productivity trends.
