The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System is an assessment developed for students of grade levels 1-12 which will demonstrate students’ English proficiency. It is federally mandatory for English Language learnings to take this assessment to find out the annual progress that the English Language Learner students make in the English Language. The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment began after the Reading Proficiency Tests in English also known as (RPTE) needed federal requirements for also functioning for other grade levels and language domains. The Reading Proficiency Tests in English were created in 1999-2000 for English Language Learners that were in the third grade to the twelve grade. The Reading Proficiency Tests in English were the first tests that were made to test the
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The requirements that needed to be done to the Reading Proficiency Test in English were for it to be made for other grade levels other than just third to twelve grades. Once The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System was created the Reading Proficiency Tests in English was kept as a secondary part to the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System. They continued to make changes to the Reading Proficiency Tests in English in 2004 and 2005 that were federally required. One of the many purposes of the English language Proficiency assessments is to demonstrate data on how much English Language Learners have achieved from the year of their English Language skills. Now all English language proficiency assessments are known as only the name of The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS). The results of the assessments are also primarily used to demonstrate the district and which district English Language Learner’s
The requirements that needed to be done to the Reading Proficiency Test in English were for it to be made for other grade levels other than just third to twelve grades. Once The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System was created the Reading Proficiency Tests in English was kept as a secondary part to the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System. They continued to make changes to the Reading Proficiency Tests in English in 2004 and 2005 that were federally required. One of the many purposes of the English language Proficiency assessments is to demonstrate data on how much English Language Learners have achieved from the year of their English Language skills. Now all English language proficiency assessments are known as only the name of The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS). The results of the assessments are also primarily used to demonstrate the district and which district English Language Learner’s