"skill standard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a set of criteria for judging the level of someone's proficiency in a particular skill. For example, "The teacher administered an assessment to evaluate how well the students had reached the skill standard for the course."
It is for that reason we strongly advocate for a training and credentialing program for direct-support professionals built on universal skill standards and a code of ethics.
Pay and labour costs are expected to accelerate and the emphasis on educational spending in the recent sharp loosening of the Chancellor's old restraints, will not quickly correct "shortfalls in education and skill standards" in the UK.
New professions and skill standards appear.
Integrating the four perspectives, the paper points to potential longer-term negative effects of trends toward HR homogenization on professional skill standards and dedication to higher-order professional goals.
The future includes nationally recognized skill standards and third party certification of those skills.
These skill standards, aligned with Good Manufacturing Practice/Good Laboratory Practice, are not unlike the certification systems currently in place and expanding in the manufacturing and information technology sectors.
These skill standards -- some already developed; some under development by NCBW, BioLink, and others - will be part of stackable credentials that will define a career path for biotechnicians.
The current study has also enabled a baseline measure of medical students spontaneous ability in this area, and has allowed investigation of how far generic skills (standard communication skills training) can contribute to specific behaviour change talk ability.
In any event, we were interested in the question whether nonverbal behaviour would at least correlate with independent raters' impression of patients' social skills, standard measures of psychopathology, and particularly social (as well as non-social) neurocognition.
