Sentence examples for proficiency measures from inspiring English sources

Despite being one of the most widely used proficiency measures of English for Academic Purposes, the newly-designed Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT) remains externally under researched compared to previous TOEFL versions.

Examples of such an analysis are: comparing survey total estimates with census totals, comparison of responding rates by demographic characteristics, and correlation analysis of weighting adjustment variables with proficiency measures (outcome variables).

c"Overall proficiency" is the mean of reading, writing, speaking, and listening proficiency measures.

However, the results were different when proficiency measures were derived from children's use of these same features in producing discourse.

The modest to moderate significant linear correlations between the two types of proficiency measures in our study suggests that our subjects had a reasonable self-perception of their ability to use the English language.

In a similar application [ 29] posterior distributions of proficiency measures were used in two nonparametric regression models (one with and one without group membership as a covariate) to compute posterior mean p values for the likelihood ratio based on the two models.

It is true that our students' proficiency, measured by traditional standards, has fallen behind that of other countries' students, but we believe that the best way for the United States to compete globally is to strive for universal quantitative literacy: teaching topics that make sense to all students and can be used by them throughout their lives.

The levels of a language proficiency measure are in fact arbitrary.

Second, the probabilities are treated as a function of an (unknown) parameter for the person's ability, skill, or proficiency measured by the items.

Within such a system, it is difficult to determine the number of levels needed for a language proficiency measure and to measure the distance between the levels.

The test has four sections, one for each of the language skills, which are equally weighted to give an overall averaged band of proficiency measured from 0 (lowest) to 9 (highest).