Sentence examples for yardstick to test from inspiring English sources

Next year's forthcoming Terminator reboot, which will bring back original stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, should make for a good yardstick to test this specific template.

The certificate's designers drew on the yardsticks used to test commercial products and services".Accountability" has been a buzz-word among providers of succour at least since 1994, when it emerged that refugee camps in Congo were sheltering those responsible for Rwanda's genocide.

During a Barnett monitoring project in 2009, agency employees discovered benzene above that yardstick in nearly a third of the 64 sites where they arrived to test for it.

While "Waiting for Superman" lionizes urban reformers who embrace standardized testing as a necessary yardstick to hold schools and teachers accountable, Ms. Abeles believes that the testing movement is what has caused education to go off the tracks.

For years now, educators have looked to international tests as a yardstick to measure how well U.S. students are learning 21st-century skills compared to their peers.

The results of the test are then made as a yardstick to be compared with the results that they obtain after first semester.

Given questions about the validity of scores on the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System standardized test, the federal government's independently administered National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) provides an objective yardstick to measure D.C. students' progress while Michelle A. Rhee was schools chancellor.

"How am I going to explain it to the superintendent?" Although Indiana did not use the test to promote students, as many states do, the scores gave politicians and educators a yardstick to measure student progress.

Moreover, standardized tests provide a necessary accountability for school districts and local education agencies, as well as a yardstick to measure progress.

"It established a whole new yardstick to measure value.

Zipes said physicians lack "an absolute yardstick" to measure an adequate response to propranolol and generally monitor the dose from the response of a patient's symptoms and from standard tests such as treadmill exercising and Holter monitors.