Sentence examples for proficiency will be from inspiring English sources

Rules on ages and English proficiency will be relaxed.

The bar for proficiency will be raised in August 2005, then every three years following, until all students are expected to be proficient by 2014.

Thus, those who have better language proficiency will be able to obtain a better quality and more years of education.

It is highly likely that a relatively large number of levels or sub-levels of language proficiency will be needed to cover this range.

Thus, when PD is ignored, proficiency scores are underestimated the stronger the PD effects are and the more test takers experience PD, the stronger the underestimation of the sample's average proficiency will be.

So, a school where students have reached a high level of proficiency will be penalized for not demonstrating learning gains, which is a large part of the school grades calculation.

Benchmark samples at each of the levels on the proficiency scale will be selected through standard-setting from performances on assessments aligned to the new framework.

(1999) noted that if the IRT model cannot account for the dependence between item-pair properly, then the precision of proficiency estimates will be overestimated and showed that accounting for the dependence using, for example, the testlet model would not lead to overestimation of the precision of proficiency estimates.

The study consisted of five parts assessing different aspects of English skills (the LexTALE test, translation from L1 to L2, translation from L2 to L1, the QPT, and self-ratings of English proficiency), which will be described separately in the following sections.

Basic language and L2 proficiency background information will be obtained using the LBQ (including self-rated proficiency for L1 and L2), for both patients and practitioners.

Proficiency in English will be compulsory; after that, would-be migrants will be awarded points for their qualifications and prospective salaries.