Some Web evangelists say children should be evaluated for their proficiency on the Internet just as they are tested on their print reading comprehension.
Key information collected through the BHS includes: healthy eating,[ 14] physical activity,[ 15] health status,[ 16] health literacy,[ 17] internet and e-mail use proficiency, self-efficacy,[ 18] response-efficacy,[ 19] and demographic variables (i.e., age, gender, race/ethnicity, number of children in the household, household income, and education).
As for Mr. Buffett's proficiency with Facebook and the Internet, I asked a Times reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who specializes in Wall Street and deals, for his perspective.
In a study conducted by Horna et al., 40% of a sample of medical students in Peru' reported lack of proficiency on the use of Internet [ 15].
Exclusion criteria are: no access to the internet, inadequate self-reported computer literacy, inadequate proficiency in Dutch, suicidal ideation or increased risk of suicide and bipolar or psychotic disorder.
At the same time, proficiency in database management and Internet technologies will allow for the creation and maintenance of online websites and databases for the storage, management, presentation and sharing of high throughput experimental data, to further boost research growth and progress in the field.
Today, Zarqawi is an international name "of enormous symbolic importance," as Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus put it in a recent interview, on a par with bin Laden largely because of his group's proficiency at publicizing him on the Internet.
But whereas once it required a lathe and other ironworking tools and some kind of dedication and grit, now it pretty much can be managed by casual amateurs capable of spending quite a bit of money on a 3D printer and a proficiency in downloading files from the Internet.
Among other assets, they bring energy, idealism, eagerness to learn and grow, and proficiency with social media and the Internet.
In a 2002 study conducted by Horna et al., 40% of a sample of medical students in Peru reported lack of proficiency in the use of the internet [ 8].
