Measuring What Matters Most

Measuring the Return on Household Enterprise: What Matters Most for Whom?

Return on assets (ROA) from household enterprise is crucial for understanding the well-being and productivity of households in developing economies. Yet the definition and measurement of household enterprise ROA remain inconsistent or unclear. We illustrate potential measurement problems with examples from various actual surveys. We then take advantage of a detailed integrated household survey ...

Jeffrey Kaplan Why Literacy ( and Young Adult Literature ) Matters : A Review of Current Research Research Connection

In an era of accountability (and in particular, high-stakes testing), discussion is often centered on “what young people know” and very little on “how young people feel.” Lost in the mad rush to satisfy bureaucrats and parents anxious to see students score well on state exams are any real indicators (or discussion) as to what really matters in the lives of young people and, in particular, their...

Middle School Reading Assessment : Measuring What Matters Under a RTI Framework

TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT IN VARUS KNEE: WHAT MEASUREMENT REALLY MATTERS? INTRODUCING A NEW CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

This was Presented in 5th International Congress of Iranian Iranian Society of Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy, and Sports Traumatology (ISKAST), 14-17 Feb 2018- Kish, Iran

Measuring what Matters in Specialist Domestic Violence Courts

Using data from seven specialist domestic violence courts (SDVCs) in England and Wales, it is argued that these relatively new institutions need to reorient themselves away from typical criminal justice performance measures (such as arrests, prosecutions and convictions) and towards measuring what matters to the service users themselves (in this case, victims of domestic violence). Analysis of ...