Though we can thank the No Child Left Behind Act for drawing our attention to the “achievement gap” - which is now loosely deployed to reference gaps between African-American and white/Asian, poor and ...

More than half of the world's population speaks more than one language—but there is no consistent method for defining ...

The good linearity depicted in this plot indicates excellent agreement between manual scoring and fully automated scoring, showcasing the potential of the proposed system. In today’s increasingly ...

We know that when it comes to school accountability, what gets measured gets done. In some states, measurement of student outcomes is all over the board. In Mississippi, officials have designed a ...

It all began innocently enough; with an infographic. A small corner of social media bubbled with controversy after data visualizer Latinometrics published a graph which illustrates the relationship ...

Language proficiency assessment encompasses a diverse range of methodologies designed to evaluate an individual’s communicative abilities, from grammatical precision to the dynamic management of ...

Standardized tests reflect little of what you have learned. Rather, they reveal how well you test. Students who test well have advantages over those who have average or low test-taking ability. The ...

As many as 1 in 10 working-age adults in the U.S. has limited English proficiency (LEP). Let alone the personal employment and economic implications of this reality, when LEP patients are inadequately ...