Sentence examples for competence measures from inspiring English sources

The original Fresno test of EBM competence measures four levels of competency in EBM: excellent, strong, limited, and none.

Plausible values capture latent estimates for relations between competence measures and context data (OECD 2013b).

For example, the PIAAC-L design makes it possible to compare the competence measures used in PIAAC, NEPS, and the SOEP.

On the one hand, the sizes of the inter-relationships, give rise to the question regarding the uniqueness of each of the competence measures.

Competence measures often feature test instruments that contain polytomous, ordered item responses, such as the rating scale (Andrich, 1978), partial credit (Masters, 1982), and graded response (Samejima, 1969) models.

The empirical results pertaining to the structure of vocational competence are coherent with studies in other vocational areas that similarly suggest the high relevance of subject-related domains in the structuring of professional competence measures and their frequent influence on item difficulty (e.g., Nickolaus, Gschwendter, & Abele, 2009; Seeber, 2008).

The competence tests correlate fairly well with the average grade given by the vocational school teachers (r = .40) and with the apprentices' self-rating of their vocational competence (r = .33), suggesting high retrograde and concurrent validity of the competence measure.

Using structural equation modeling of latent variables, results demonstrated that the interaction of emotional expressiveness and emotion regulation at ages 3 and 4 significantly predicted social competence measured concurrently, as well as at ages 5 and 6.

In this paper we conduct an exploratory analysis of the genre demands of high-stakes writing assessments from three states – California, Texas, and New York – with the aim of discerning, comparing, and evaluating the role that genre knowledge plays in the construct of writing competence measured by these assessments.

I had grown used to my soldierly competence measured in tape hatch marks cinched around the largest part of my hips.

The Caregiver Competence Measure (CCM) [ 23] is a one-item measure involving the statement "I feel I have the skills and knowledge to be a competent caregiver".