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The study reports interviews with adult school staff through participatory action research, documenting differing local assessment policies and the role of agency-created tests in measuring listening and reading proficiencies. 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As these tests assess only listening and reading skills, schools may use their own internally developed assessments to more accurately place students and subsequently to determine level promotion. Engaged in participatory action research, the researcher interviewed adult school staff to document their varying assessment policies and procedures of adult ESL learners, highlighting the agency-created assessments that provide critical information of students’ language proficiencies and achievements. This study underscores the discrepancies between the state’s policies and actual pedagogical needs, and it proposes ways to reconstruct how ESL assessment is conducted, such as making available a wider, more comprehensive base of assessments for schools to use, and proposing an updated, common set of standards for use statewide.  \nBackground  \nEvery year more than 400,000 adults in California enroll in Eng  \nlish as a second language (ESL) classes, half of whom enroll  \nat their local adult school (California Department of Education & the California Community College Chancellor’s Office, 2015) . During registration, ESL students typically undergo some sort of language assessment to inform their ESL level, and subsequently they will be administered periodic standardized assessments throughout their schooling to indicate progress and determine level promotion.  \nThe CATESOL Journal 29.2 • 2017 • 163  \nAdult schools, if they wish to receive federal payment points for student gain, must use assessment tests approved by National Reporting Services (NRS), namely CASAS, BEST Literacy and BEST Plus 2.0, and TABE Complete Language Assessment System–English (TABECLAS–E), in addition to other state-specific tests that are administered periodically to track student gains and determine level promotion (National Reporting System, 2016) .  \nStemming from the 1970s and 1980s movement of competencybased adult education, the CASAS competencies and the CASAS testing systems were developed by a consortium of agencies in the field, including ESL instructors and administrators in California. As such, CASAS has been a mainstay in California adult education for decades, its grassroots history in California being its stronghold. The California Department of Education (CDE) has contracted exclusively with CASAS to collect and report all adult school data since 1999 (Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems, n.d. a), and it is currently contracted through fiscal year 2018-2019 (California Department of Education, 2016) . The CDE accepts only data that are measured by CASAS tests, and it currently approves the Life and Work Reading and Listening series and Beginning Literacy Reading assessments to document language proficiency and gains of adult ESL students. While CASAS has developed a writing assessment that has also been approved by the NRS, the CDE does not now accept this measurement.  \nCalifornia maintains an awards-based system, meaning that instead of allocating a set amount of funds to each adult education facility each year, the schools instead receive part of their funding through demonstrating gains in language skills. Adult schools send their CASAS scores to the CDE, which then submits the scores to the National Reporting Service (NRS) for compliance purposes. The CDE awards payment points to adult schools that demonstrate student gain via CASAS assessments (as well as EL Civics, which is not focused upon in this study) . The source of such funds comes from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title II, Adult Education and Family Literacy (California Department of Education, n.d.). 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