The phrase "normative benchmark" is correct and it can be used in written English in certain contexts.
It refers to a standard or reference point that is considered ideal or desirable in terms of accepted norms or standards. It is often used in fields such as economics, business, and sociology. Example: In order to measure the success of the new policy, we need to establish a normative benchmark for comparison.
But the second point, which is very important, is that the way that the strengths-based movement has approached their take on strengths is not by looking at normative data, not by looking at how good you are in comparison to your peers, or your groups, or any kind of normative benchmark.
Once we effectuate that translation for judges in the political system, the Essay offers insight into what it means to be a judge in a democracy: the judge-as-fiduciary framework both confirms features of judgeship that seem obvious and central to the job, while providing a useful normative benchmark that can help guide some of today's most controversial debates about the judiciary.
I have specifically focused on two questions: (1) What is the normative benchmark for how voters should assess elected officials given that sometimes voters can be too responsive to events and policy outcomes; and (2) How does retrospective voting affect social welfare via policymaking?
Many advocate for retaining strict neoclassical "rationality" as the normative benchmark, while others argue for applying the principle of revealed preferences selectively, rather than systematically, in order to allow for other aspects of well-being to be considered (see Bernheim and Rangel 2007 for a review).
In absence of a normative benchmark these studies leave it to the reader to approve or disapprove the results.
A further, major drawback of the method we use is that it reinforces the idea that White/White British children represent an invariant, normative benchmark.
It also examines the key normative benchmarking theory premise that firm capabilities associated with sustained financial performance can be identified and that a firm's capability gaps, defined herein as the capability gaps between the firm and the selected benchmark firms (e.g., Camp, 1995), explain its financial performance.
To determine what they need, they should inspect robust normative benchmarks for representative top performers.
It reviews theories of administrative rulemaking in light of two normative benchmarks: a "democratic" benchmark based on voter preferences, and a "republican" benchmark based on the preferences of elected representatives.
They set normative benchmarks for student achievement in order to establish an accountability system for academic outcomes of lower secondary education ([reference deleted to maintain the integrity of the review process]).
For those reasons, the clinical normative benchmarks are presented jointly for male and female patients with schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder.
