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 ...

ELL test-takers trail far behind the other major racial/ethnic groups of test-takers partly because they are concentrated in schools that report the assessment test scores of ELL students and those ...

“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.

Seeing as this post deals with testing, it seems apt to write it as a series of questions about the who, what, when, why, and how of dual language learner (DLL) and English language learner (ELL) ...