Sentence examples for proficiency towards from inspiring English sources
"We want accountability reforms that factor in student growth, progress in closing achievement gaps, proficiency towards college and career-ready standards, high school graduation and college enrollment rates," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in announcing the proposed changes.
The various SP enantiomers of O-alkyl-methylphosphonyl esters of CHMC provide suitable ligands for screening rePON1 libraries, and can expedite identification of variants with enhanced catalytic proficiency towards the toxic nerve agents.
Similarly, highly self-sufficient students who had positive feelings and confidence about reading were found to form the majority of readers with high proficiency, whereas students who lacked confidence in their reading were less likely to steer themselves away from being readers with low proficiency towards being readers with high proficiency.
Consequently orthopaedic trainees are trained towards proficiency with internal fixation methods, and have only a superficial knowledge of external fixation.
Many teachers said that the pressure to move kids towards proficiency had gotten out of hand.
Student assessments -- exemplary, high-level mastery, meets the proficiency, working toward the proficiency, not meeting the proficiency -- are then submitted to the university with applications.
However, the practical tests were very rigorous and geared towards assessing proficiency of the resident in a variety of skills.
They speculated that the sampled students tend to show a stronger learning motivation and more autonomous learning behavior than the university students who have lower levels of English proficiency; thus, their attitudes towards the graduation benchmark policy are also more positive and optimistic.
We bobbed and weaved upstream and slowly picked up some proficiency as we angled towards Difficult Run Rapids, marking the end of the gorge.
If states do not make "adequate yearly progress" towards 100% proficiency by 2014, then the schools face a series of increasingly onerous sanctions, ending with their being closed down.
Secondary outcomes measures include indices of computer proficiency, technology uptake and attitudes towards technology.
