Tag: progress monitoring

The Power of Progress: Why Proficiency Testing Is for Every Student

One of the quiet pitfalls in education is that students often begin sorting themselves into categories long before we do. “I’m good at languages.” “I’m bad at languages.” And their parents, I find, sometimes affirm one of the two positions with statements such as: “She’s one of the smart kids.” “He’ll never sound fluent anyway.”

One Size Does Not Fit All

Do you wear the same shoes to the beach that you wear to the office or to go mountain climbing? Do you like the same music as you did when you were five years old? Likewise, would you want to use the same test for learners as they enter 7th grade as you would use […]

ACTFL bilingual bilingual employee bilingual employees Bilingual Employees & Job Market bilingual professionals bilingualism career determining proficiency education employee language assessment employee language skills hiring bilingual employees hiring multilinguals HR Human Resources language assessment language assessment for business language certification language proficiency language testing multilingual multilingual employees multilingual professionals multilingualism program requirements progress monitoring research Seal of Biliteracy student evaluation student placement