“…On the one hand, such policies strengthen the reliability of the SoBL, ensuring the proficiency of SoBL recipients through use of normed and field‐tested tools. These standardized assessments of world language proficiency provide teachers with useful feedback on their instruction and can have a positive washback effect on teachers' practice, motivating proficiency‐oriented pedagogies (Davin et al, 2018; Kissau & Adams, 2016; Vyn, 2019). Evidence also suggests that students value the results of such tests to provide proof of their proficiency and boost confidence in language abilities (Davin, 2021a; Davin & Heineke, 2018).…”