Linking the two scales showed systematic differences in the proficiency level classifications.
For example, You'd expect that a lot of the difference in reading proficiency in the early grades would be due to differences in decoding.
(5) Are there substantial differences in the multidimensional proficiency profiles across countries?
But the strategy chosen by the school did not appear to make much difference in student proficiency rates, according to the federal analysis, as they all made about the same progress.
A Mann–Whitney U test shows that there is a significant difference in the level of computer proficiency between "users" and "non-users" (U = 6175, p = 0.008).
Hence, cell-cycle differences are not the cause of the difference in reporter repair proficiency that we detect.
Thus, when investigating group differences in proficiency, the extent to which the differences found might be caused by differences in PD instead of true differences in proficiency should be explored (DeMars et al. 2013; Denis and Gilbert 2012; Mittelhaëuser et al. 2015).
No difference in Min proficiency and frequency of use was found among the three dialects [proficiency: F 2, 7) = 1.22, n.s.; frequency: F 2, 7) = 2.94, n.s.].
Although the difference in proficiency for reading in German and for writing in German were significant between both groups, it was less relevant here, because the task of picture naming as well as the WAIS was a spoken task and did not entail reading or writing skills.
"On average among 16-29 year-olds, young women outperform young men in literacy by an average of one score point -- meaning that there is, effectively, no gender difference in literacy proficiency," said an OECD report released in March.
