The phrase "actual proficiency" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person's true level of skill or competence in a particular area, often in contrast to perceived or claimed proficiency.
Example: "The test was designed to measure actual proficiency in the subject, rather than just theoretical knowledge."
Alternatives: "true proficiency" or "genuine proficiency".
Examples of application of the method to actual proficiency test data are offered permitting to appreciate its validity and to facilitate insight.
There is also wide variation in training requirements – from states that require applicants to demonstrate actual proficiency in firing a gun, to Virginia, which requires only an online safety training course.
A sample of 378 pupils in 58 schools in Flanders (the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) completed a performance-based ICT competence test in order to measure their actual proficiency in retrieving and processing digital information, and in communicating through a computer.
Indeed, judges often reject parties' attempts to obtain and introduce at trial empirical data on an expert's actual proficiency.
Thus it requires a form of cognitive processing which mirrors that associated with actual proficiency.
As in all questionnaire studies, the data we acquired merely reflect the respondents' own assessments (here regarding their need for competence in sickness certification), which means that we do not have information on their actual proficiency in the areas of interest.
Ross and Dodson [5] even recommended to abandon survey-based study on older drivers because their feeling is likely not related to actual driving proficiency.
More "users" than "non-users" in our sample report higher technical expertise, especially in the area of computer security, which could reflect an actual higher technical proficiency among "users," as suggested by Ion et al. [8], which reported that experts are more likely to use password managers than non-experts.
BEmONC training is conducted using a nationally approved learning package: the training is a 13-day competency-based in-service training, which utilizes didactic approaches, simulation, actual clinical practice and proficiency assessment.
This study examined the existence of a threshold level (proficiency barrier) of actual motor competence (MC) below which a child is not likely to attain 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day.
However, the simulator is also far less expensive than using actual aircraft for routine transition and proficiency training.
