The TOEFL test is a highly reliable English proficiency test.
The present overview introduces the procedure that can be used to assess the performance of CATSIB for detecting DIF on for example a researcher-made validated and reliable English proficiency test when items in the simulated study would be paper-based and in the real study would be administered in the context of a multistage computer adaptive test (MSCAT).
Board certification can be a reliable indicator of proficiency if the certifying organization demonstrates, through regularly scheduled independent review, that its processes meet established standards and when a certificate holder is required to periodically demonstrate command of a body of knowledge that is essential to current professional practice.
But how many knew, before reading [the Washington Post last month], that if Einstein were trying to get a green card, he would have to get in line with Argentine plumbers and Taiwanese accountants to qualify under the new "point system" that gives credit for such things as English proficiency and reliable work history?
A potential limitation of our study is that language barriers may only have become apparent and been recorded for those patients who needed the most care, resulting in a large group of relatively healthy patients for whom no reliable data on language proficiency are available.
In the absence of a reliable and easily administered ASL proficiency test, subjects were asked to rate their ASL comprehension and production proficiency on a scale from 1 = perfect to 4 = hardly.
Some of my peers are very low in the level of proficiency which hampers us from a reliable self-assessment and peer-assessment….
That is because "Performance in the four skill areas is combined to provide a maximally reliable composite assessment of a candidate's overall language proficiency at a given point in time" (Penn State University, 2017).
Yet, if grades are not a reliable reflection of learning and reflect other factors including language proficiency, cultural background, or skills in test taking this would seem a deeply biased practice.
By using the first valid and reliable tools to be developed, demonstration sites can assess language proficiency and interpreting skills of persons used as interpreters.
One important dimension in proficiency with this skill is the ability to making reliable measurements.
