The BVAT (Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests) test is designed to help in developing entry and exit criteria in bilingual education, to facilitate appropriate program placement and planning, and to assess a bilingual student's academic readiness.
The BVAT is comprised of three individually administered tests
Picture Vocabulary: The subject is required to name a pictured object with the degree of difficulty increasing gradually. It is an expressive language task that involves word retrieval ability at a single word level and measures comprehension/ knowledge ("crystallized intelligence"). Oral Vocabulary - Synonyms: The subject is required to make a synonymous word association with difficulty increasing gradually. This task measures knowledge of word meanings ("crystallized intelligence") during an oral presentation of stimuli. Oral Vocabulary - Antonyms: The subject is required to make an opposite (antonymous) word association with difficulty increasing gradually. This task measures knowledge of word meanings ("crystallized intelligence") during an oral presentation of stimuli. Verbal Analogies: The subject is required to recognize the analogous relationships between two words and to find a word that fits the same relationship to a third word. This task measures verbal reasoning in increasingly more complex conceptual/ logical connections ("fluid intelligence").
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