National Evaluation of Title III Implementation Supplemental ReportExploring Approaches to Setting English Language Proficiency Performance Criteria and Monitoring English Learner Progress

This report describes "several empirical methods and conceptual or theoretical rationales" to assist in creating meaningful ELP performance standards. The authors discuss various methodological approaches that may assist educators to "1) determine a meaningful ELP performance standard; 2) establish a realistic, empirically anchored time frame for attaining a given ELP performance standard; and 3) take into account an EL's ELP level when setting academic progress and proficiency expectations."