Raising the Bar

September 10, 2010

...A component of the National Security Education Program, housed at the U.S. Department of Defense -- a not-insignificant detail that has been the cause of some controversy – the Language Flagship has an immodest objective: “to change the way Americans learn languages.”

Indeed, the Language Flagship programs represent a significant shift in the model for foreign language education at American universities. Each curriculum is organized around a very clear and ambitious learning outcome: that students graduate at the Superior level on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages scale or with a score of 3 on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale (which spans from 0 to 5)....

For the complete article see http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/10/flagship

To raise the bar, it is necessary to assess students' proficiency at benchmark levels. OWL software makes it easy!