"If a fee is put in place to use this tool, people may have to revisit even having benchmark requirements in cities," he added.
Patients placed in these areas are triaged under the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) as Resuscitation (1), Emergent (2), or Urgent (3). 10 In Canada, there are no national performance benchmark requirements for disposition decisions.
Having been influenced by the trend of internationalization of higher education, most universities in Taiwan have implemented an English benchmark requirement for graduation, which requires students to demonstrate their English ability at a specified Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level through taking a standardized English language test (e.g., GEPT, IELTS, TOEFL iBT).
Mr Scott said that he wanted to see the Care Protect system, which has been piloted in a 76-bed care home in Birmingham, become a "benchmark requirement" for all care homes.
The Government's Sustainable Buildings Task Group recently recommended a benchmark requirement for a minimum 10% of reused/reclaimed or recycled content (by material value) in construction projects.
In view of this, schools and teachers should be aware of the risk of increasing students' anxiety when implementing the graduation benchmark requirement.
Therefore, they suggest that to confirm the findings of their study, more data needs to be gathered from other universities that use different levels of the GEPT as their graduation benchmark requirement.
Consequently, more data are needed to support whether the findings of this study can be applied to universities that use other forms of English proficiency testing tools as their graduation benchmark requirement.
More importantly, schools must provide necessary remedial course programs to help the less proficient students to build their confidence in improving their English proficiency and at the same time in coping with the graduation benchmark requirement.
Therefore, following the procedures employed in the previous study which used the GEPT High Intermediate data, the present study collected new data from one university that uses the Intermediate Level of the GEPT as its graduation benchmark requirement.
Different from the Intermediate group students, the High-Intermediate group students may not need a graduation benchmark requirement to encourage them to learn more English because they are willing and eager to learn new material for self-actualization.
