Self - published authors need to have
a very high level of proficiency in the publishing business to get attention — or a lot of luck.
Not exact matches
Even outside
of the university, you will find that the Danes» English
proficiency level is
very high, just as some Danes speak a number
of other languages including German, French and Spanish.
Although states» definitions
of proficient vary widely,
very few set the
proficiency bar as
high as NAEP and most correspond more closely to NAEP's basic performance
level.
Where progress is understood differently — to mean «increasing «
proficiency» reflected in more extensive knowledge, deeper understandings and
higher -
level skills within a domain
of learning» (Masters, 2017)-- an emphasis only on reporting achievement on summative assessments would give
very little sense
of a child's progress from where they began.
However, in the case
of states where
very many schools report
proficiency rates in excess
of 90 %, ECF provides an additional chart showing the percentage
of students who have reached an «advanced»
level of reading performance, i.e., a chart showing the percentage
of students who have reached a
higher cut score on that state's reading assessment.
I would also add that for
high schools, I believe the CAHSEE (an 8th grade
level test) was also
very heavily weighted, and a number
of schools gamed their scored by doing lots
of CAHSEE prep, and thus ensuring their 10th and 11th graders could pass 8th grade material with
proficiency.