The Language Proficiency Handbook

The creation of the Language Proficiency Handbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Instructional Assessment (hereafter, the Language Proficiency Handbook) has been a team effort, and all the persons involved in that process are to be recognized for their contributions. For two years,the Language Proficiency Committee of the Bilingual Assessment Advisory Panel wrestled with issues and explored ideas related to the construct of language proficiency and its implications for instructional assessment. It was responsible for the development of the conceptual out line and the selection of rubrics...