In education and assessment, we use the word “standards” in a number of ways: curriculum standards, standards-based assessments, performance standards. Performance standards—also known as proficiency ...

Proficiency descriptors for the Intensive English Program are organized into six levels. A student can use language to express meaning by creating, combining, and recombining known elements to ...

The state board of education in California earlier this month gave its final stamp of approval to new English-language development standards that directly connect to the language demands in the Common ...