Sentence examples for measures of proficiency from inspiring English sources

Most scientists study psychomotor learning under controlled laboratory conditions, which contribute to more accurate measures of proficiency and reduce the amount of variability in a learner's performance as the training progresses.

However, one major advantage of PIAAC is the availability of measures of proficiency in three important skill domains, namely numeracy, literacy and problem-solving.

It also illustrates just how fuzzy states' measures of proficiency can be.

The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is incorporating measures of proficiency and benchmarking into its accreditation process in ways that avoid dictating curricula or specific approaches.

In addition, measures of proficiency are required by testing laboratories to ensure continued accuracy of the results.

The present study examined bilingual and monolingual children's performance on both standardized and discourse-based measures of proficiency (vocabulary, morphology, and syntax) and two academic discourse genres that are related to academic success in the early years: narratives and explanations (Griffin, Hemphill, Camp, & Wolf, 2004; Miller et al., 2006; Tabors, Snow, & Dickinson, 2001).

Additional research is also needed to establish evidence-based quantitative measures of proficiencies in each objective.

Now the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services wants a more standardized measure of proficiency in American history and in writing, reading and speaking English.

Although one may assume that an individual has a true value on the latent trait, any finite test and any amount of additional information on the individual's background cannot provide certainty about that true value: Even a test that has 100 items will not produce an error-free measure of proficiency.

These findings suggest that along with scores on commercial language proficiency tests, other measures of language proficiency may be useful for predictive purposes.

At the same time, self-reported measures of language proficiency are subject to measurement error, an issue that has drawn the attention of researchers (Dustmann and van Soest 2002, 2004; Bleakley and Chin 2004).