The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction was awarded a $10.5 million, four-year grant by the U.S. Department of Education last week to create an online English-language proficiency assessment ...

A new tablet-based assessment developed by Pearson will specifically target English Language Learners (ELLs) in order to help them build English language skills and succeed on summative assessments.

California schools began this month to administer a new assessment in Spanish for English-language learners, but the test will not be used for accountability purposes under the No Child Left Behind ...

The Visiting Scholar and Exchange Student Online English Language Assessments were developed by the former English Language Institute (ELI) at Michigan Tech and are administered by qualified staff ...

“Limited English-speaking” students refers to Census Bureau data on students who report speaking a language other than English at home and who say they speak English “well,” “not well” or “not at all.

The NAEP, or the “Nation’s Report Card,” is the best-known assessment of student learning for the U.S. as a whole. NAEP assesses student learning in mathematics and reading at grades 4 and 8, ...