Sentence examples for competency benchmark from inspiring English sources

What our study reveals is that the vast majority of our participants have not reached this competency benchmark.

Although the dramatic increase of explicitly scientific ideas, and the decrease in the frequency of mixed models and explicitly naïve models provide support for the effectiveness of the PD program, several teachers failed to meet a minimum competency benchmark (i.e., being able to explain evolutionary change free of alternative conceptions).

Systems and policies that seek to rate and improve quality in FCC homes should also consider the distinctive features of home-based child care in developing quality standards and competency benchmarks for providers seeking credentialing as well as for agency staff who work with FCC providers.

It is hoped that countries will use these competencies as benchmarking for agreeing who meets the definition of a skilled attendant.

One method of assessing the impact of international partnerships upon staff and organisational development is to benchmark developing competencies against existing frameworks of healthcare competencies.

This large study of UK endoscopy trainees will allow future trainees to benchmark their competency progression against a UK national average.

Quantifying students' use of necessary and sufficient scientific elements (key concepts) as a benchmark for competency, as we have done, captures only one facet of short-answer scientific explanations (cf. Braaten and Windschitl [ 2011]).

Previous reports indicate that experienced endoscopists consistently achieve cecal intubation in more than 90% of their procedures, and rates above 90% have generally been the benchmark for competency [ 16, 17].

While reasoning about evolutionary change is diverse and complex, expert novice reasoning patterns, and associated benchmarks of competency, may be simplified and modeled along a continuum based on existing research (see Table 2).

Valid assessment tools evaluating technical performance are required to establish objective parameters in arthroscopic training to generate standardized benchmarks of competency and ultimately improve technical proficiency.

Since such high quality online educational resources are expensive to produce and maintain, well designed educational programs that are shared across multiple institutions allow the sharing of expenses, while meeting diverse learner and institutional needs and generating benchmarks of competency in medical education and evaluation [ 12, 16].