It’s been a field-testing frenzy all spring with five separate assessment groups asking school districts and students to test drive the array of new exams they are designing to measure students’ ...

A new white paper from testmaker Educational Testing Service offers recommendations for how to improve English-language proficiency assessments that are used to how evaluate how English-learners are ...

What is proficiency? Why does it matter? How can we assess it? How does it differ from other kinds of assessment? And what does proficiency assessment tell us that helps to improve learning? David ...

Language proficiency assessment frameworks provide structured scales for evaluating and describing individuals’ capabilities in a second or foreign language. These frameworks typically comprise a ...

Adrianne Gomez co-founded Global Voices LLC, alongside her husband, Jonathan Gomez, in 2025, with a mission to connect ...

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...

Who is eligible to take the proficiency exam? The Proficiency Exam is intended for students who have considerable experience with a language other than English and who would like to demonstrate that ...

Question: What assessments and rubrics can we use to assess the language proficiency of young learners? Duarte M. Silva, Executive Director of the California World Language Project in Stanford, ...

Jefferson Elementary School in Mesa saw a big jump in non-English-speaking students’ proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and understanding English, according to this spring’s test scores.

The NTID Sign Language Assessment and Resource Center (NSLARC) offers the Sign Language Proficiency Interview (SLPI:ASL) as part of our national assessment services. The SLPI:ASL is a one-on-one ...