On the basis of a proficiency test results, the English level of the sample was found to be homogeneous (M = 60 out of 90, SD = 2.3, p > .05) and about intermediate.
On a 1995 proficiency test of 156 examiners conducted with the approval of the International Association of Identification, the profession's certifying organization, one in five examiners made at least one "false positive" identification -- linking a mock crime-scene print to the wrong person.
Shyam Sundar of Penn State University, found that students who self-reported using more texting abbreviation with their friends also performed worse on a grammar proficiency exam.
A longitudinal investigation by Costa-Giomi [10] showed that children who received two years of piano instruction improved significantly more than controls on a motor proficiency test.
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.
"I think we are now developing, or on our way to developing, a proficiency in analytics that will require us to remember the importance of the wise-old owls, the experience of baseball scouts and I'll be continuing to remind them, 'More scouts, more scouts, more scouts,' and more of that kind of input because it does for sure require all of that kind of input," Kasten said.
The expert microscopists had extensive experience in malaria microscopy and passed a proficiency test on parasite detection.
Many of the steps and tips to follow will either depend on, or greatly benefit from a proficiency in reading musical notation (sheet music).
On Tuesday it said Captain Renslow had lied on his job application by listing only one of the three times that he had failed a hands-on proficiency exam, called a check ride, and that the airline was hampered by insufficiencies in a federal law intended to help carriers gather information like that on job applicants.
On completion of the common training those in the CG received no further training and those in the SG went on to complete a proficiency-based training period using a prototype simulator.
