In the past three years, more than 25 states have passed laws to link scores to teacher evaluations, because officials think it is a more effective way to gauge performance than traditional reliance on observations by school principals.
Employee surveys are the best gauge of performance on each dimension, since no one knows better than the people involved how good the company really is.
As output is hard to measure in most professional jobs, managers will fall back on the oldest gauge of performance: favouring those employees who get in early and leave late.
Same-store sales growth is an important measure to gauge the performance of a restaurant chain since it includes only the restaurants opened for at least a year and excludes the newly opened (and closed) restaurants, sales of which might be unusually low or high.
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The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Property Index (NPI) is the accepted index created to provide an instrument to gauge the investment performance of the commercial real estate market.
We test CD-ROM read performance with Testa Labs' CD-Tach 98 2.0 software, and we gauge CD-R performance by writing 430MB of data to CD-R twice: once from an image file and once on the fly.
It was difficult to gauge the McLarens' performance in Barcelona and Hamilton conceded that he was shocked to find himself starting in fifth.
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Mr. Corbat is expected to unveil quantifiable targets that will allow analysts and investors to more-easily gauge the company's performance, said the people familiar with the plan.
It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
But not surprisingly, the most popular gauge of Bond's success has been the performance of the man in the starring role.
The company hasn't released the results of any benchmark tests yet, making it difficult to gauge the company's claims about Crusoe's performance.
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