Findings revealed students thought communicative, not technical, proficiency, mattered most to academic 'success' in online environments.
Comfort wanted to do the same thing with making love — help people gain a sense of proficiency with the subject matter, and ultimately render them capable of "Cordon Bleu sex".
They ask their teachers to exhibit not only verbal ability and subject-matter proficiency, but also knowledge of teaching.
This would suggest that lower proficiency is a matter of recruiting more resources to process words.
Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar, who is the chief of the colorectal service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, and who performs robotic surgery, told me that the proficiency of the surgeon matters more than the approach.
"If the goal of the New York City education system is to ensure that every demographic and socioeconomic group is equally prepared to compete in higher education and the workplace," they said, "relative achievement measured on a continuous scale is what matters, not proficiency rates".
Proficiency is one thing, imagination quite another.
Data are logged throughout the interactions in order to assess the individual's mastery of subject matters, skills, and proficiencies on both cognitive and noncognitive characteristics.
The transformation of energy systems (ES) into smart grids particularly in the domain of electricity is not only a matter of technological proficiency.
As our Chinese-speaking participants were all proficient in Chinese, we did not have sufficient variance within group to show a correlation between brain structure (gray/white matter density) and proficiency in Chinese perception and production tasks.
