Hello All,

I’m looking for information about benchmarking Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme language courses to the ACTFL or CEFR standards in order to advise the registrar and advisors about credit transfer.  The only benchmarking guide I found from IBO was for English: https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/publications/ib-research/dp/ib-dp-cefr-benchmarking-summary-en.pdf, or this assessment list from ISBE for the Seal of Biliteracy: https://www.isbe.net/Documents/language-proficiency-assessment-list.pdf.

Our current policies for granting credit and/or fulfillment of the 102-level/intermediate low language requirement seem a little stingy and not representative of the proficiency levels one might expect from high scores on high level language testing:

1.   AP language exam: a student who scores 4 or higher on the AP language exam is granted 102-level credit and the requirement is satisfied.
2.   IB HL: A student who scores 5 or higher on the HL IB test is granted 8 credits, incuding102-level credit, and the requirement is satisfied.
3.   IB SL:  A student who scores 5 or higher on the SL IB test is granted 4 credits, including101-level credit, and the requirement is not satisfied

What do you think?

Thanks,
Erica

Erica Andree
Director | Center for Languages and International Collaboration
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