The Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests (BVAT) is a standardized, wide age range, individually administered
procedure for measuring bilingual verbal ability. The battery also provides a measure of English
language proficiency.
Standard
Score (mean
=100)
Percentile
Rank
Bilingual Verbal Ability
English Language Proficiency
Picture Vocabulary
Oral Vocabulary
Verbal Analogies
The English Language Proficiency cluster measures expressive vocabulary, knowledge of word
meanings, and verbal comprehension/reasoning. The cluster is composed of Picture Vocabulary (naming
a pictured object), Oral Vocabulary (identifying a synonym or antonym), and Verbal Analogies
(identifying the relationship between two words and providing a word to fit that same relationship to a
third word). Specifically, Xxx was able to…Xxx had difficulty (personalize this section based on your
analysis of the student’s responses)
Xxx’s score on this cluster (is within normal limits/indicates a normative deficit/indicates a normative
strength).
The Bilingual Verbal Ability cluster is a broad-based measure of receptive and expressive oral language
ability in Xxx’s two languages combined. Xxx’s score indicates …(Explain)