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 ...

A group of states designing common assessments to measure how well students have mastered the Common Core State Standards today gave its first round of approval to a series of test supports to help ...

It’s been a field-testing frenzy all spring with five separate assessment groups asking school districts and students to test drive the array of new exams they are designing to measure students’ ...

Today’s learners navigate an academic journey that is increasingly digitalised, collaborative and influenced by AI. Are traditional language tests lagging behind the evolving needs of institutions and ...

ITSC’s NCTA 2025 presentation on whether English proficiency scores predict academic readiness, based on a nationwide ...

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As higher education becomes increasingly global, language testing is crucial for assessing students’ abilities to succeed academically and engage with their peers in an environment where English is ...

Truck drivers can now be put out of service if they fail an English Language Proficiency test during a roadside inspection. CarriersEdge, which provides online driver training, released an online ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Interpreting FSI Test Scores." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Principled Approach to Language Assessment: Considerations for the U.S. Foreign ...