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The Bottom Line

The Bilingual Two-Language Assessment Battery of Tests by Adolph Caso published by Branden Books is a powerful tool for institutions to deliver a non-variable standardized multi-lingual assessment of students or employees. The wide-range of language abilities tested ensures extremely granular results. This tool may be considered too dry or academic in some settings.

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Pros

• Provides bilingual assessment in a number of languages
• Standardized tool to English assessment
• Tests wide range of English skills and language proficiency from beginner to advanced
• Reasonably short testing time
• Can be used in both private and public sector for a wide range of purposes

Cons

• May be considered dry and academic by test takers
• Requires an audio-visual setup in a classroom setting
• Requires manual correction of test-takers answer page

Description

• Standardized battery of tests that can be administered in a number of private and public settings.
• Helps determine key language issues such as: Point of bilinguality, language weak and strong points.
• Provides tool for program placement in both school and for employers.
• Means for non-speakers to test the level of language abilities in languages other than English.

Guide Review - Battery of Tests - English Assessment Tool

This Battery of Tests has been created to be administered to public and private school Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students, to adults, and to potential employees.

The series can also be used to determine language proficiency in languages other than English making the battery of tests useful for companies seeking to employ multi-lingual talent.

The Battery of Tests appears to be quite useful to institutions who need accurate assessments of multi-language speakers. It certainly can provide a bench-mark for evaluating students as well as employees in-house in quite a number of languages. Being an assessment test, it is rather dry and unappealing necessitating users to make clear to test-takers the importance of results.

The Battery of Tests is a useful tool for those who require an off-the-shelf standardized language competency tool.

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