The larger project aims to describe the levels of L2 proficiency of school-aged populations in order to explore the conditions and factors contributing to processes and outcomes in foreign language education in public schools.
Last fall, college professors and employers were asked to assess the writing proficiency of high school graduates.
This study reports the long-term effects of a professional learning program for classroom teachers on fundamental motor skill (FMS) proficiency of primary school students from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, the science proficiency of high school seniors dropped from 21% in 1996 to 18% in 2000 and remained at 18% in 2005 (Grigg et al., 2006).
There are public charter schools down the street from Newark Public Schools that have literally doubled the reading proficiency of our schools.
These latter schools also typically serve students facing the greatest out-of-school challenges -- low English-language proficiency, poverty, gang recruitment, and more.
Of course, this means that half of School 13's fourth graders are still below proficiency.
Summer is when students spend the most time out of school in any one sitting, and it's also when children and teenagers most easily lose reading proficiency.
The majority of village students in all grades lag behind their peers in the district and throughout Alaska on state reading and math proficiency tests, school data show.
However, it is time-consuming, fallible and repetitive for the school teachers and parents to assess the proficiency of the students' vocabulary acquisition.
However, when we take into account the PIAAC proficiency level and the years of schooling, we find that this measure of non-cognitive skills affects only earnings of the high-educated workers.
