Schools are already serving millions of students for whom English is not the first language... and the number of these students continues to grow rapidly. Educators must understand each student's language needs so they can get them into the right English Language Learner (ELL) or English as a second language (ESL) program while moving them forward to also meet NCLB requirements. The Versant ELL tests equip schools with placement and progress monitoring assessments that specifically measure the English listening and speaking skills of the students - the skills that most ELL tests are not able to reliably and efficient measure.

Versant English tests for ELL enable you to:

• save time by quickly placing incoming ELL students.
• benchmark ELL student progress throughout the school year.
• immediately and accurately identify ELL student strengths and weaknesses to help guide instruction.
• evaluate all your ELL students on an equal basis with objective, unbiased criteria.

The Versant ELL tests were developed by experts in linguistics - especially English language learning - test design, and speech recognition. Versant tests have been extensively field trialed and validated with reference to the most qualified human evaluators of language proficiency, fluency, and pronunciation.

The Versant testing system allows you to evaluate all of your students on an equal basis with objective, unbiased scoring. The tests are also curriculum independent, ensuring that student achievement is assessed equitably regardless of curriculum differences among teachers and schools, or changes in curriculum over time.

Teachers can easily administer the Versant ELL tests by having students take the test over the telephone or a classroom computer. Versant scoring technology automatically scores a student test within minutes of being submitted, making a detailed score report available for the teacher in the reporting system.