Sentence examples for annual proficiency from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama agreed that "we have piled on a lot of standardized tests" under federal education law, meaning the annual proficiency tests in reading and math given to Grades 3 through 8 as well as once in high school.

The F.B.I.'s Stephen B. Meagher testified that no Bureau analyst had ever misidentified a person in court, and that the Bureau's annual proficiency test was among the reasons that the Judge should be confident about admitting expert testimony.

Only now, almost three years after the crash on Aug. 30, 2002, has Babb's family claimed they've discovered a startling secret: The co-pilot's records had been "pencil whipped," or falsified, to indicate he had fulfilled Federal Aviation Administration requirements for annual proficiency flights with a certified inspector, the equivalent of a driving test for pilots.

WASHINGTON -- A bribery scandal involving alleged payoffs from 10 Transportation Security Administration employees at Philadelphia International Airport for passing grades on annual proficiency exams calls into question the integrity of the system, a key member of Congress said Friday.

Only four of 13 NRLs (31%) participated in annual proficiency tests, while four other NRLs had participated in inter-laboratory testing within the region (Table 6).

The laboratory is certified according to the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act, and procedures incorporate quality control (QC) measures to ensure accuracy and precision of results, including annual proficiency testing compliance (Norrgran et al. 2006).

Serial dilutions of 2 virus-positive samples from the 2013 annual international proficiency test from ANSES (Nancy, France) were compared.

The use of these old isolates was based on previous experience [ 23] and their satisfactory performance during the annual World Reference Laboratory WRLL) proficiency tests.

The NTRL successfully participates in two annual external proficiency testing programmes organized by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) and the Supra national laboratory net work.

PNTH's laboratory participates in an annual international proficiency study on DST together with laboratories in Korea and Australia, with results that are concordant to those of other laboratories for more than 95% of the tests.

(1922) Gift of Benjamin F. Romaine to provide an annual prize for proficiency in Greek language and literature.