Sentences with phrase «of written proficiency»

Your lack of written proficiency tells a recruiter more about you than you might imagine.

«Current automated essay - scoring systems can not directly assess some of the more cognitively demanding aspects of writing proficiency, such as audience awareness, argumentation, critical thinking, and creativity... A related weakness of automated scoring is that these systems could potentially be manipulated by test takers seeking an unfair advantage.

Not exact matches

Strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design, and professional printing and publishing skills and proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of programmes (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Publisher);

Overall, Luna wrote, «[t] he speed with which scientists can hope to achieve narrative proficiency using the tools in the book is one of its remarkable strengths and a testament to Olson's straightforward advice.»

«As someone who used SCIgen to expose the lack of editorial and peer review of a suspect journal, anyone with a modicum of English language proficiency should be able to detect a paper written by SCIgen or similar software,» says Philip Davis, an independent researcher who consults for the publishing industry.

One thing Rebel in the Rye accomplishes with some degree of proficiency is depicting the craft involved in Jerry's writing.

The band maintain a proficiency at writing catchy riffs and intoxicating grooves, merging the likes of Sabbath with ZZ - Top, but the feeling of repetition, combined with a lack of impact like they used to have, may leave fans wanting.

As of writing, we were unable to test out the net code and matchmaking proficiency.

Martin Davis of the Fordham Foundation writes that the 13 consortium schools achieved «remarkable growth» in grades 2 through 8 proficiency rates on the TerraNova from 2000 to 2005.

When the World Bank issued a report last fall that found that 60 percent of primary school children in developing countries were failing to achieve a basic proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics, it exposed a so - called «learning crisis» in global education, one in which children attend school for years but fail to learn.

But the most powerful predictor of test success is proficiency with nonfiction literacy (writing and reading), White added.

Given that 94 % of human communication occurs non-verbally, and that public speaking and presentation to groups are (along with expository writing) among the proficiencies most lacking in young hires today, it makes sense for the classroom to be a place where young people can develop the «people skills» required to work and live successfully.

Randy Bennett, who holds the title of distinguished scientist at ETS, writes that this rigid idea of assessment yields a «narrow view of proficiency» defined by «skills needed to succeed on relatively short, and quite artificial, items.»

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

As Harvard University's Paul Peterson recently wrote in Education Next, «the Common Core consortium has achieved one of its key policy objectives: the raising of state proficiency standards throughout much of the United States.»

Bilingual Education: The federal government should stop focusing on bilingual education programs to help students with limited English proficiency, because there is little evidence that those programs work, a series of draft studies written for the U.S. Department of Education concludes.

Given these definitions, I believe the true beauty of a blog isn't just that it provides students with an opportunity to write, but that it also provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate proficiency when it comes to a whole host of other 21st Century skills, including collaboration, creativity, tech and media, research, public speaking, and publishing, among others.

Many learners of English, in particular those in East Asia, often face challenges in using English as a communicative tool in delivering their thoughts during written and oral discussions at school and in the workplace despite a strong desire and effort to achieve proficiency in English.

Using data collected at EF centers in different parts of the world, the project focused on adolescents» academic writing proficiencies across different first languages / cultures (China, Russia, U.S.) and across different types of texts.

Proficiency in academic writing in secondary school is often an indicator of a successful adult trajectory in both the academic and professional spheres.

A series of peer editing sheets for use across the curriculum, designed to develop writing proficiency without sacrificing attention to subject - specific content.

First Florida started grading its schools from A to F, based on the proficiency and progress of pupils in annual reading, writing, maths and science tests.

The writers of Risk believed that the goal of the early grades is to gain proficiency in the skills of reading, writing, thinking, and arithmetic in order to «provide a sound base» for high - school study.

EF Education First Collaboration with Harvard Grad School of Ed Team Looks to Unlock Mysteries of Language Learning Boston Globe, June 21, 2013» «The collaboration will begin by focusing on how students acquire written English proficiency,» EF said in a press release.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

A writing rubric is included, which is a student friendly version of the WIDA writing rubric, which measures proficiency in writing in English.

The state English language proficiency assessment must align to Pennsylvania's academic standards and the PA English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and must measure progress and / or attainment of English for each language domain, i.e. reading, writing, speaking, andproficiency assessment must align to Pennsylvania's academic standards and the PA English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and must measure progress and / or attainment of English for each language domain, i.e. reading, writing, speaking, andProficiency Standards (ELPS) and must measure progress and / or attainment of English for each language domain, i.e. reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Thousands of local, state and national news stories were written, broadcast, and viewed about the degree of progress being made to reach proficiency.

Even more suggestive, CSUSA's net proficiency growth in reading, math, writing and science is almost ten times higher than the state of Florida.

The CSUSA network of schools exceeded the Florida average proficiency and rate of growth in reading, math, science and writing for 2013 - 2014.

We also used SBAC - released rubrics to calibrate our own grading of AMPUHS student writing and compared it with samples of non-AMPUHS student writing of differing levels of proficiency.

As my Hechinger Report colleague Molly Callister wrote here, 15 states and the District of Columbia have adopted policies requiring third - grade reading proficiency before a student can move to fourth grade.

Milwaukee Public Schools recognizes the continuum of language development within the four areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing with six English language proficiency levels.

Completion of a bachelor's degree or higher and verification of the attainment of an oral proficiency interview score above the intermediate level and a written proficiency score above the intermediate level on a test administered by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for which there is no Florida - developed examination;

The evidence of proficiency might be a verbal response, a visual artifact, a written piece, or an observable presentation of skills.

Yes, literacy means the traditional reading and writing proficiency, which of course we want for our ELs, and unfortunately isn't happening across the board.

Under Hensley's watch, students at Atkinson, once one of the lowest performing elementary schools in Kentucky, doubled their proficiency rates in reading, math and writing.

University of Southern California Associate Professor of Education Morgan Polikoff wrote a blog post which details his letter to the U.S. Dept. of Education regarding ESSA regulations, and encourages regulators to look beyond «the state - defined proficiency threshold» when formalizing its regulations.

In fact, as Porter writes, «in the first year of the new, harder tests, students» proficiency ratings dropped about 30 % from the previous year.»

Rising proficiency for students with disabilities across most subjects (exceptions for middle school writing, high school math, and high school social studies), at a pace that can contribute importantly to narrowing one of our widest achievement gaps

Only 13 % of HOPE's low - income elementary students reached proficiency in writing on the most recent TCAP (2014).

The proficiency test requires students to write two different types of pieces, chosen from the above list.

Because student selection of arts courses in the high school can occur at any grade, the standards and the model cornerstone assessments to support them are written at three levels of proficiency rather than by grade.

The test is designed to measure proficiency of the Arizona College Career Ready Standards in math, reading and writing.

Providing the instructional tools to teachers, schools and districts to develop and refine writing proficiency in students of all ages, the key to improved reading and comprehension.

For students who are learning English, a test written in English becomes, to one degree or another, a test of language proficiency.

An Exploration of Two Approaches for Writing Student Learning Targets explains some of the benefits for educators in using a proficiency model:

Schools will continue to administer numerous state tests, and while assessment models have yet to be determined, my state's plan outlines goals for student growth and proficiency in reading and math but little in the way of high school writing.

They also began measuring student growth in addition to proficiency but eliminated the writing test, opting instead for short written responses that measure reading comprehension but none of the writing standards.

Written descriptions of complex problem solutions can provide a window into reasoning proficiency.