Therefore, the test strives to discover proficiency through performance.
With such a small sample size, any attempt to generalise about the relationship between specific degree of language proficiency and performance in the debates would have been flawed.
Further, this positive relationship exists across nearly all immigrant groups, showing that linguistic acculturation is pervasive and important in developing and assisting children's language proficiency and performance in Swedish class/test.
Turning to between-group differences within each of the three implicature types, one-way ANOVA revealed a significant effect of proficiency on performance on the Lin items, F 2, 95) = 13.46, p < .001, ηp2 = .22.22
Although relatively few studies have dealt with this issue, research from second language speakers seems to suggest a negative correlation between speaker proficiency and performance variability [e.g., Nip and Blumenfeld (2015)].
The relationship between proficiency and performance in a complex multiple-choice item is in fact remarkably direct.
We noted earlier the suggestion of Guion (2006, pp. 268 269) for abandoning the pretense about objective or "hard" criteria of proficiency in performance.
In describing the difficulties, in his own experience, of seeking objective supervisor ratings across a wide range of jobs, Guion (2006) says, "Perhaps, indeed, we should abandon the pretence about 'objective'truerue', or 'hard' criteria of proficiency in performance" (pp. 268 269).
Reasons for discordance between laboratory HER2 results are complex and include differences in laboratory proficiencies and performances as well as interpretation of HER2 testing results.
RQ2 asked whether proficiency affected test performance.
