Sentence examples for proficiency challenge from inspiring English sources

The STEM Interest and Proficiency Challenge: Creating the Workforce of the Future (Washington, DC, 2011).

This year less than half of the state's 1,109 schools met the federal law's benchmark for the percentage of students showing proficiency, a challenge that will get tougher each year.

Otolaryngology is a highly technical and demanding specialty and the requirements for surgical trainees to acquire proficiency remains challenging.

Most current proficiency testing challenges for NGS are methods-based PT surveys that use DNA from reference samples engineered to harbor specific mutations that test both sequence generation and bioinformatics analysis.

Though some of the challenges can be about technical proficiency, design other challenges to set contestants up in a way that allows them to showcase their personalities.

One stakeholder from Kakuma camp identified refugees' English proficiency as a challenge: "A big number of people who apply for these courses, have problems in understanding English which needs a lot of creativity in making all ends meet".

Basic English proficiency is a challenge in many New York City high schools, so Girls Write Now helps low-income young women of color improve their communication, writing and leadership skills.

But in tackling the U.S. education system, the tech community may face a steeper challenge: sagging proficiency scores, teacher attrition and struggling schools.

Every student in the study ranked the lack of language proficiency as the most significant challenge they faced that inhibited their academic success.

Once schools learn how to effectively address student growth, they will experience entirely different students who have the confidence, curiosity, motivation and grit to tackle the challenge of academic proficiency.

Progress is monitored by trainers, who encourage skill advancement following successful performance but before proficiency, creating a "just right" challenge as proposed in the occupational therapy literature [ 55, 56].