IDENTIFIERS Language Assignment Umpire

Techniques for assessing test validity and reliability are applied to an analysis of an lin§ublished test, ia Order to familiarize test users in local biling'ual programs with technical evidezIce ttiat should be available foi ' instruments of potential use in placing limited Fnalish-speaking students. The instrument studied, the Language Assignment Umpire (L.A.U.G-is designei to identify language domihance by meant of four oral: of sentence memory, synonyms, antonyms, and digit-reverse4. Tha.validity of the L.A.U. is corsittered in determining language proficiency.as well as langua:ge dominance. Lexical difficulty anl.counts of phonemes, syllablesf, words, and morphemes are,examined for a linguistic analysis of the 1.1.U. The sentenceomemory task-is examined for the syntactic'complexity of its items. Statistical analyses'are reported for a varietv of c?rrelations at'4oth'the intr.-a-test and external cri4.eria levels.\A brief discussion 'includel If the ikesults of a study ia which tle L.A.U. and other language data were used to determine the effectivenessof th