The phrase "assess proficiency" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when evaluating someone's skill level or competence in a particular area, such as language, mathematics, or job performance.
Example: "The teacher will assess proficiency in reading by administering a standardized test at the end of the semester."
Alternatives: "evaluate skill level" or "measure competence".
This study was designed to assess proficiency in ECG interpretation among residents at the start of their internal medicine (IM) residency.
Objectives: The AcroMetrix HIV-1 Resistance Proficiency Program was designed to assess proficiency in the identification of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations using molecular genotyping methods.
As you rightly point out, this will then have serious implications for how we assess proficiency too.
Currently, the EQA program assess proficiency using an 8-color Intracellular Cytokine Staining (ICS) assay that measures IFN-γ, IL-2, TNF-α and CD107α.
A post-course examination consisting of a practical examination on live student models and a written image identification examination is held to assess proficiency.
Although creating the three scales used to assess proficiency in PIAAC was a major goal of the survey, the numerical scores themselves carry little or no meaning.
However, the practical tests were very rigorous and geared towards assessing proficiency of the resident in a variety of skills.
Since 1999, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division of AIDS (NIAID DAIDS) has funded the Immunology Quality Assessment (IQA) Program with the goal of assessing proficiency in basic lymphocyte subset immunophenotyping for each North American laboratory supporting the NIAID DAIDS HIV clinical trial networks.
We administered two English language reading tests on EFL students: one that was constructed specifically for the purpose of assessing proficiency of EFL learners (National Assessment in Germany NAand and one that was originally constructed to assess reading literacy in the testees' first language (PISA).
These findings indicate that using the pure self-reported information to define skill-mismatch would lead to classify workers as over-skilled even if their assessed proficiency levels are very often below those of the self-reported well-matched or even under-skilled.
Sessions were recorded on audiotape and subsequently evaluated using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Coding, which is a validated tool for assessing proficiency in MI [ 32].
