He commented: 'not only are non-response and test incompletion in PISA distinct from proficiency, they are also nationally distinctive characteristics that change over time' (p. 33).
Every systematic science, the humblest and the noblest alike, seems to admit of two distinct kinds of proficiency; one of which may be properly called scientific knowledge of the subject, while the other is a kind of educational acquaintance with it.
First, the topic is highly interdisciplinary, requiring proficiency in three distinct fields.
Health literacy is increasingly recognised as an important factor in healthcare access and cancer screening in particular and is distinct from, but associated with, limited English proficiency.
Each town has its own unique taxicab code, with distinct fare structures, inspection requirements, licensing fees, English-language proficiency rules, exclusive-ride clauses and laws on fingerprinting and drug-testing of drivers.
Expert team that provided suggestions to the constructs of reading scales, parameters to describe reading proficiency, and categorization of the descriptors into distinct levels.
"Learning how to learn," including having basic proficiency in online technologies, is considered a distinct competence today.
We also note that English proficiency and health literacy appear to have distinct relationships with the three types of cancer screening.
This study provides new information about the important, distinct roles of low health literacy and limited English proficiency in cancer screening guideline adherence among Chinese Americans using a population-based sample.
Thus, the current data do not exclude the possibility that high vs. low proficiency levels across all acquired non-native languages could have a distinct effect on rapid neural memory-trace formation for novel words or word learning in general, which should be addressed in future studies.
To determine whether distinct programs for clearance of damaged cells may have arisen based on cellular autophagy proficiency, we examined recruitment of macrophages following duct ligation.
