From the CEEE and
the Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Home Bilingual Usage Estimate
| Test Name:
| Home Bilingual Usage Estimate |
| Publisher:
| R.V. Skozylas |
| Publication Date:
| 1971 |
| Test Type:
| Language Proficiency |
| Content:
| Other |
| Language:
| Bil. Spanish/English |
| Target Population:
| Bilingual Spanish/English |
| Grade Level:
| K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
| Administration Time:
| 1-15 min |
| Standardized:
| Yes |
| Purpose:
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Language Dominance
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Abstract:
The Home Bilingual Usage Estimate (HUE) measures a person's language usage in the home and yields a single score that classifies the person according to a criterion scale. The classifications are: English monolingual, English dominant, Apparent bilingual, Spanish dominant, and Spanish monolingual. The time required to complete the HUE interview with an adult is approximately 6 minutes, and the interview should be conducted by a bilingual aide. Test-retest reliability was estimated as .97 using the Pearson product-moment procedure. Concurrent validity between the scores on HUE and estimates of language usage by a bilingual educator was established as .95.
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