"Achievement tests are fairer to students because they measure accomplishment rather than promise," Richard Atkinson, the president of the University of California, told a conference on college admissions last month.
As wages level off, medals and awards that raise status without costing hard currency might substitute as compensation, as practiced in the Soviet period, beginning principally in the 1930s, when such status symbols, rather than salaries, measured accomplishment.
c) Absence of any local supervision in an environment where data in the monthly report is used to measure accomplishment of service targets set for local staff, which leads to inconsistencies between data in the registers and the data in the summary monthly reports.
Measuring educational accomplishment, our students rank 15th in terms of reading literacy, among the 30 industrial countries who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
While this is clinically important information to gather, such ADL measures stop short of measuring actual accomplishment of activities of daily living in the person's living environment.
The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is composed of three subscales measuring personal accomplishment, emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation (an unfeeling and impersonal response towards the recipients of one's care) [ 23].
The 22-item version of the MBI consists of nine items that measure emotional exhaustion, five items that measure depersonalization, and eight items that measure personal accomplishment.
These metrics can be "precisely" determined but how precise are they as a measure of accomplishment?
If Olympic medals provide a measure of accomplishment, they also create new expectations.
The measure of accomplishment in science is the long-term respect of qualified peers, not media glorification.
