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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"proficiency levels"”.
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An Organization of Violin Technique Based on Proficiency Levels for the Clover Park School District
… violin, and, (2) to structure the sequence into levels of proficiency.
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Size matters : a study of English proficiency levels of educated Maltese English speakers through lexical competence
There exists a lack of measurable evidence of proficiency levels of English in Malta. This thesis represents a pilot study which examines the potential for measuring the levels of English proficiency of a small cohort of bilingual educated Maltese subjects. In an effort to measure L2 vocabulary …
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Correlating Technology Surveys and Third- and Fifth-Grade Proficiency Levels in Math and Reading throughout Tennessee.
… of learning designed to elevate teachers' levels of understanding to a sufficiently high degree as to help them feel qualified to integrate technology. Furthermore, even though the majority of the networking infrastructure within schools examined in this study seemed to be relatively …
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Algebra II: Gatekeeper Course An Examination of CST Proficiency Levels in California and The Bay Area
… Algebra II course and California Star Test (CST) proficiency levels in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the State of California. CST proficiency levels are examined by grade level for the State and nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area region. Algebra II is shown to be one of the more …
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CAF across proficiency levels and profiles: an investigation of ESL student writings in an English placement test
… of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) across proficiency levels and profiles in second language writing. 150 ESL essays of international students registered at a North American university were analyzed using various CAF measures. Descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA results indicate that …
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Characterization of Proficiency Levels and Balance among Middle School English Learners with Reading Difficulties: Relations to Reading Outcomes
… Specific variables of interest include language proficiency as well as balance between languages, as both have shown promise in explaining variability for outcomes such as executive function. Identifying predictors of key cognitive outcomes among bilingual samples is particularly important among …
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The effects of a kinder kinetic intervention programme on the motor proficiency levels and scholastic performance of children aged 6- 8 years
… correlation (r= 36, p£ 0.05) between motor proficiency scores and the scholastic performance of subjects in the experimental group. There was a meaningful relationship (r=-o.55, p<0.05) between the motor proficiency scores and the scores obtained on the Connor Classroom Behaviour …
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Language Arts Achievement of Fourth Grade Students with Regard to Gender, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status
… see if a difference exists in the language arts proficiency levels of 2,080 fourth grade students with regard to gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status from 2010 through 2012 on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program. Specifically, this study considered the possibility that a …
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… distinguish essays that were rated as different proficiency levels in the integrated reading-writing tasks. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 262 essays from the English Placement Test (EPT) were collected and holistically scored based on the EPT holistic profile-based rating …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… contains written exam scripts from six different proficiency levels. The current study implemented a bottom-up approach to explore the verb 4-gram sequences in L1 Korean speakers. This study is quasi-longitudinal, where the proficiency levels were used as a proxy to measure language development. …
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Native-nonnative-speaker interaction in second language acquisition: an exploration of turn management, topic management and negotiation strategies in L2 Chinese
… noted noticeable differences among participants’ proficiency levels. In this case, the researcher further classified the participants into three subgroups based on their proficiency levels (namely, low-intermediate, mid-intermediate, and high-intermediate levels). Such an approach allowed the …
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DEVELOPING THINKING IN L2 SPEAKING: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH LEARNERS
… expressions in L2 learners across proficiency levels. Some 41 CLLs and ELLs at four proficiency levels participated in this study. Data were collected via an experimental approach and were analyzed by narrative analysis with statistical support. Each participant told two stories in …
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Continuing educational needs of state agency fish and wildlife biologists
… related to specific job tasks. In addition, proficiency levels required for job tasks were rated. An organizational analysis was also conducted to ascertain agency climate for support of continuing education programs. Forty-seven state fish and wildlife agencies responded to the …
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
… aims to explore whether or not grammatical proficiency and development is distinct from pragmatic proficiency. The data were collected from 36 Thai EFL learners at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, intermediate and advanced, using four open role-plays. The role-plays were designed …
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Context Dependent Gaze Metrics for Evaluation of Laparoscopic Surgery Manual Skills
… gaze metrics and estimating the proficiency levels of medical trainees on surgery. The three stages are: (1) contextual scene analysis for segmenting surgical scenes into areas of interest, (2) compute context dependent gaze metrics based on eye fixation on areas of interest, and …
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Are Teachers’ Formative Assessment Practices Reliable Indicators of Students’ Mastery of Standards?
… between a student’s classroom grades and his/her proficiency levels reported from criterion-referenced standardized assessments, such as the Georgia Milestones. The purpose of this research project was to determine if teachers’ formative assessment practices were reliable indicators of students’ …
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A Quantitative Comparison of the Reading Achievement of English Learners in Dual Language and Transitional Bilingual Programs
… shown to be effective in increasing the English proficiency of English learners (ELs). The purpose of this archival comparative study was to conduct a quantitative comparison of the English reading achievement of third grade ELs enrolled in dual language education (DLE) programs to those enrolled …
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Evaluating Alternative Methodologies to Teaching Reading to Sixth-Grade Students and the Association with Student Achievement.
… test reading/language arts scores, TCAP proficiency levels for content, meaning, and vocabulary categories for 2005, and pretest and posttest scores on the student assessment of reading. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).</p><p>The findings …
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The Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Learner Speech in Russian: A Study in the Salience of Pronunciation, Lexicon, Grammar and Syntax
… beginning, intermediate, advanced and superior proficiency levels read a text in Russian and noted which aspect(s) of L-2 speech affected intelligibility. In Part II, participants listened to the same L-2 speakers spontaneously speak in Russian about their families, and then recorded which …
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