There were no measurable differences between the two groups across 47 outcome measures.
What about all the other outcome measures that are relevant to evaluating the performance of a medical system and on which the U.S. ranks very high?
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To do this right, we would need good outcome measures that captured true individual student learning growth along a variety of dimensions, which would have to look quite different from our current assessment system.
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Jacob (2003) found that moving due to the demolition of public housing buildings had no impact on the academic achievement of younger children on a variety of outcome measures, including test scores, grades and retention.
So the Federal Reserve and other agencies took emergency measures to prevent that outcome.
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As definitions of a good outcome they started with two simple measures: the number of infections averted, and the number of deaths averted.
To answer this we must enter the mind of someone who measures the efforts, the outcome and the costs associated.
Rather than simply assuming that executives will work to maximize shareholder value, it pays for boards to implement institutional measures to help encourage this outcome.
Fishing industry representatives welcomed the outcome of talks in Brussels on EU fish conservation measures in December.
"This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory, " he said.
The outcome of the election, which comes amid a deep recession and tough austerity measures, was so close between the two main blocs that the margin of victory given in interior ministry figures was less than 1% in both houses of parliament.
The countdown to the summit may have started, but the most likely outcome is commitments towards the direction of travel - banking and fiscal union - rather than immediate measures that will ease the crisis.
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