Sentence examples for used to measure progress from inspiring English sources

Not only was the wrong metric being used to measure progress; the metric was being manipulated.

This was never going to be a full-blown evaluation but it is a first snapshot, a baseline, that can be used to measure progress.

But in this Report we modify the indicators used to measure progress in education and income, and we change the way they are aggregated.The first change was in the education index.

The investigation centered on suspicions that answer forms on the state achievement test used to measure progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law had been tampered with by educators.

Cancer screening prevalence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), designed to provide state-level estimates, and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), designed to provide national estimates, are used to measure progress in cancer control.

We discuss the use of mathematical modeling to help identify appropriate disease monitoring indicators, i.e. variables used to measure progress towards the goals, objectives and targets of public health programs [15].

We needed commitments that the indicators we use to measure progress, such as "gross domestic product," take account of the health of our natural capital — the forests, rivers and oceans on which we depend — as well as our cash.

Juan Elvira, Mexico's Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, described the two metrics he is using to measure progress towards a sustainable future: how many green jobs Mexico has created, and how much it has cut its carbon emissions.

Mr. Kenny acknowledges that the billions of dollars that the West has poured into poor countries has had a limited impact on income, which is what most economists use to measure progress in living standards.

More generally, a biomarker is a laboratory measurement that can be used to measure the progress of disease or the effects of treatment, as the new RBC extended parameters can do and is proved in the published studies selected in the reference section.

That standardized test scores would be used to measure students' progress and also the effectiveness of teaching assumes unwarranted degrees of validity and precision.