Sentence examples for proficiency meaning from inspiring English sources

The law demanded a hundred-per-cent proficiency — meaning that all students must perform at grade level — by 2014, and it mandated a series of penalties, ending with closure, for schools whose students didn't measure up.

Mr. Obama agreed that "we have piled on a lot of standardized tests" under federal education law, meaning the annual proficiency tests in reading and math given to Grades 3 through 8 as well as once in high school.

Therefore, high reading proficiency appears to be associated with a tighter connection between orthography and semantics, while low reading proficiency appears to be associated with phonologically mediated access of meaning.

A minimal difference of 10 repetitions between the two groups is deemed clinically relevant, meaning that the intervention group is expected to take approximately 20 repetitions to reach proficiency.

Meaning accrues.

Meaning what?

Effective question items would have a moderate value of the difficulty index and a high value of the discrimination index, meaning that the questions are not too easy but also not too difficult, and are able to distinguish test takers' proficiency.

'Preferred' meaning exclusive.

-- meaning.

Meaning demands meaning.

Meaning unclear.