Bilingual Assessment
A bilingual assessment evaluates a student’s functioning and achievement in their first language and collects information which might be affecting the child’s performances at school (for example: social and emotional health).
- Over 75 Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLBs) around the country are trained to do these assessments. They work with a bilingual support person and will recommend ways to help support the students.
- A bilingual assessment can distinguish between language learning needs, additional special learning needs and social/emotional needs, through dual assessment in the student’s first language and English.
- The BAS is funded by the Ministry of Education.
- There is no cost to your school.