The conference in July will hear more proposals about increasing inclusion – encouraging schools to retain and educate the most disadvantaged pupils – and how to broaden accountability measures while reducing reliance on narrow indicators such as the EBacc subjects.
However, Elloumi and Gueyié (2001) contradict this, suggesting that the composition of human capital explains distress beyond an exclusive reliance on financial indicators.
Moreover, scholastic reliance on institutional indicators for competence may have impeded a clear distinction between epistemic and hierarchical authority, since epistemic authority was to some extent tied to hierarchical success in academia.
When attempting to assess the quality and importance of research papers, we found that sole reliance on bibliometric indicators would have led us to miss papers containing important results as judged by expert review.
Construct validity was enhanced by the consecutive use of similar questions and the reliance on several indicators to measure the same phenomena.
Furthermore, measurement of changes in participant behaviour or patient outcomes poses major methodologic challenges because the number of subjects may be small and the power of the study low, necessitating a reliance on surrogate indicators of effectiveness.
This situation has arisen in part due to the almost exclusive reliance on the SBA indicator as the principal proxy measure (or global benchmark indicator) for maternal health program performance, despite abundant evidence that, in many instances, those labeled as "skilled" providers do not have the appropriate skills and that whether skilled or not they often do not do the right things.
Second, the Fed's promises about its future plans should eschew mechanistic reliance on one economic indicator.
Previous studies in the UK have indicated potential for response bias using self-reported data due to significant false negative reporting on chronic condition such as hypertension and lack of sensitivity to multiple measures of health due to over reliance on a single indicator related to the level of vitality (energy) [ 26, 27].
The reliance on only two indicators shows that the model can be easily applied in addressing important greenhouse gas emission sources of European urbanites, when varying power generations are considered.
