Sentence examples for literacy proficiency from inspiring English sources

Literacy proficiency is assessed by asking subjects to analyse a variety of written texts.

However, there is also considerable overlap in the wage distributions across literacy proficiency levels.

For both genders, we observe that vocational education is not as effective as academic education in promoting literacy proficiency.

Turning to ISCED 5, literacy proficiency is 5.9% lower for males (resp. 5.7% lower for females) with vocational education (column 2).

Adding this domain to PIAAC provided more information about the skills of individuals with low literacy proficiency than had been available from previous international assessments.

As new leaders are elected, new reading initiatives and policies are enacted, representing significant efforts at the federal level to improve literacy proficiency of children.

In the third model, we added the patient-related explanatory variables: health literacy, language proficiency, education and religion.

Several barriers to effective communication within the physician-patient relationship have been attributed to patient deficiencies in literacy, language proficiency, and education [ 19].

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.

All seventeen countries assess literacy and numeracy proficiency.

Table 1 documents the levels of literacy and numeracy proficiency across the OECD countries.