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Literacy Assessments for Bilingual and Multilingual Children
The BLAST bilingual assessment platform addresses the need for research-based assessment and literacy development materials for the growing population of bilingual and multilingual learners in U.S. schools.
This project has been supported by:
What is BLAST?
BLAST is a fully-automated bilingual assessment platform that helps schools and district leaders make data-driven instructional decisions, monitor student progress, and measure program effectiveness.
Why Do Schools Need a New Solution?
25% of school-age children in the U.S. speak Spanish at home.
Lack of detailed bilingual data causes educational inequity for bilingual and multilingual Latinx learners.
Schools lack bilingual tools: monolingual assessments are used with bilingual and multilingual children.
How It Works
Children take the BLAST Bilingual Assessment on their own, three times a year.
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Both languages are assessed in one sitting, with one assessment.
Watch Our BLAST Demo
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