Language assessment encompasses the principles, instruments and procedures used to evaluate individuals’ communicative competence, proficiency and learning progress. It draws on a diverse range of ...

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 ...

Margo Gottlieb answered questions about what it takes to create English-language-proficiency standards and assessments and how those tools can be used to improve instruction. Educators have struggled ...

This chapter addresses the issue of assessing the language proficiency and subject matter knowledge and skills of English-language learners. 1 Assessment plays a central role in the education of ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

Compared to the other English medium instruction (EMI) issues, assessment has received very scant research attention. A complex issue in EMI assessment relates to the role of English in measuring ...

Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the “software” of the brain) such as memory, language, attention, visuospatial ...

The ASL placement test is an online assessment designed to assess a student’s competency and knowledge in ASL. The ASL placement test can be taken if a student already knows ASL in order to fulfill CU ...