Dr. Guillermo Solano-Flores is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language at the School of Education of the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in educational measurement, assessment development, and the linguistic and cultural issues that are relevant to both international test comparisons and the testing of linguistic minorities. He is principal investigator in several NSF-funded projects that investigate the intersection of psychometrics and linguistics in the testing of linguistically diverse populations. He has provided advice to Latin American countries in their efforts to develop national assessment systems. Recent consultant activities include his participation in the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress 2009 Science Framework, providing advice on strategies for the testing of linguistic minorities, and his work as a principal evaluator of English language development tests mandated by No Child Left Behind legislation.

E-mail Guillermo Solano-Flores at: Guillermo.Solano@colorado.edu