| 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: | Language Dominance |
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.