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Proficiency
<p>As a child of God I know that every single human being was created by a loving Heavenly Father and that each of us has a purpose to fulfill during our lifetime. Part of my individual purpose is to share myself and my testimony of the gospel with others through the medium of the written word. My …
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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
<p>Lexical proficiency is strongly correlated with L2 productive language ability (Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2011; Laufer & Nation, 1995). While many studies have investigated the relationship between lexical proficiency and L2 writing ability, not many studies have been conducted in terms of …
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Metacomprehension and reading proficiency
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether children, 6 and 7 years old, who received direct teaching and modelling of specific metacognitive strategies would show a greater increase in reading comprehension and metacognitive strategy awareness, as compared to a control group who did not …
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Fourth grade Hmong students’ reading proficiency.
… to explore factors of reading development and proficiency of fourth grade Hmong students in one large, urban school district. Part one of this study explores the reading proficiency of fourth grade Hmong students through a quantitative analysis of standardized reading assessment scores. I …
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Examining the reading proficiency of office workers
… administrative support workers? 2. What level of proficiency do selected administrative support workers display in reading office documents? 3. Does reading proficiency differ for them by age, educational level, length of job experience, or by job level. Participants were 60 administrative support …
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Identifying Criteria to Predict Army Rifle Marksmanship Proficiency
… requires each Soldier to develop marksmanship proficiency in an effort to achieve combat readiness. Soldiers currently develop marksmanship proficiency through Basic Rifle Marksmanship (BRM) training, but significant skill deficiencies are apparent at the end of training. These skill …
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Language proficiency and the international postgraduate student experience
… have focused on the role of English language proficiency on academic success, there is little known about the extent to which levels of English language proficiency affect these non-native English speaking students’ overall course experience. There have been a wealth of studies considering the …
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Breast Self-Examination Performance Proficiency Among Rural Women
… of this study was the evaluation of performance proficiency of BSE among rural women that lived along the southeastern boarder of South Dakota. Insight gained from this study also provided two secondary benefits. Secondary benefits were: (1) the identification of educational deficits related to …
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The Relationship Between Somatosensory Processing and Handwriting Proficiency
<p>Handwriting proficiency is reliant on the skill and coordination of the sensory, motor, cognitive, and perceptual systems. One aspect of sensory processing for penmanship is somatosensation. The contribution of somatosensory processing to handwriting proficiency has not been adequately …
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Indicators of Future Mathematics Proficiency: Literature Review & Synthesis
… non-effective indicators of future mathematics proficiency as an initial step towards identifying the most beneficial cognitive and non-cognitive areas of focus, and consequently early interventions, in order to support student learning especially for underperforming students. Specifically, this …
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Generalized Linear Mixed Proficiency Models for Cognitive Diagnosis
… of a generalized linear mixed model for the proficiency space of examinee abilities (GLMPM) is developed using the Reparameterized Unified Model (or RUM, Hartz, 2002). The GLMPM provides a one-factor correlational model along with a covariate-weighted mean structure model for mixed type …
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The relationship between arabic language proficiency, english language proficiency, and science academic achievement of 11th grade arabic speaking english language learners
… significant relationship between Arabic language proficiency and English language proficiency and (2) there is a significant relationship between Arabic language proficiency and science academic achievement. A causal-comparative design was used to examine these hypotheses. The investigator …
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Language Proficiency Requirements and International Enrolment: A Systematized Review
… an understanding of the impact that language proficiency requirements have on international students’ ability to study abroad at post-secondary institutions. This paper employs a theoretical framework of neoliberal education and culturally relevant pedagogy to analyze enrolment management …
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Relationship of "r" articulatory proficiency to speech sound discrimination
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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The Correlation of Reading Outside School and Reading Proficiency
… time spent reading outside of school and reading proficiency, as measured by the Reading Comprehension component of the California Achievement Test. The underlying philosophy of this research stressed that the best way to develop reading ability is to provide abundant opportunity for experiencing …
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Female teachers, whiteness, and the quest for cultural proficiency
… self-discovery process of striving for cultural proficiency as a solution. Teacher cultural proficiency is a series of characteristics that are learned, honed, and constantly evolving to create a classroom that is culturally aware and culturally sensitive for all students. Although there is ample …
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Writing Proficiency Among Graduate Students in Higher Education Programs
… were proficient at writing. While writing proficiency has been extensively studied in elementary students, high school students, and undergraduates, little attention has been paid to formally evaluating graduate student proficiency. Despite the relatively new idea of assessing graduate …
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Improving the frequency and proficiency of breast self examination
… was aimed at improving both the frequency and proficiency of BSE. The Neuman Health Care Systems Model was the conceptual framework for this research. There was a total N of 60 women divided into three equal groups. Group I received a one to one teaching program on BSE and a pamphlet by the …
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