Second,it is obvious that the table shows a bias toward alternative assessment, and one should not be misled into thinking that everything on the left-hand side is tainted while the list on the right-hand side offers salvation to the field of language assessment! As Brown and Hudson (1998) aptly pointed out, the assessment traditions available to us should be valued and utilized for the functions that they provide. At the same time, we might all be stimulated to look at the right-hand list and ask ourselves if, among those concepts, there are alternative to assessment that we can constructively use in our classrooms.