Sentence examples for decline in proficiency from inspiring English sources
Katina Wilson said her 5-year-old "has been inspired by her oral and written Chinese instruction". Charlotte Osborn-Bensaada, mother of a second-grader, said "there is a very strong strategic focus on making sure these kids are not just doing okay, but excelling". Last school year, Thomson officials were surprised by a decline in proficiency rates on standardized tests.
However, if the hypothesis about a decline in proficiency is to be supported, one would expect to see a decline in percent correct and a corresponding increase in percent missing/not reached in both positions across cycles.
One suspects that the current findings might have been due to a serious decline in proficiency among young Min speakers (Directorate-General of Budget 行政院主計總處 2013; The United Daily News Group Poll Center 聯合報系民意調查中心 2002).
So, by lowering the threshold in small steps, we can produce a long line of descent showing gradual decline in proficiency.
Thus, the average proficiency was lower in the decline classes and the decrease in proficiency when PD onset occurred earlier in the test was steeper in the academic group.
The analyses represent an attempt to examine two (possibly overlapping) potential explanations for the changes in achievement observed in Ireland: (i) the decline in PISA scores is due to a decrease in engagement (ii) the decline in PISA scores is due to a decrease in proficiency.
Legibility shows a similar decline with decreasing proficiency in all cases, indicating that calculated proficiencies correlate reasonably well with actual function.
Table 2 Parameter estimates of performance decline and proficiency nac aca Group comparisons Est.
Participation in proficiency testing/ring trials.
Only 4/13 (31%) participated in proficiency testing for FMD.
Any team signing him would have forfeited a first-round pick in the 2009 draft; his Type A status, combined with the economic downturn and his declining offensive proficiency, resulted in a scarcity of interest — which not even his intangibles and ability to handle pitchers could overcome.
