Yes, absolutely.
One of the main tasks that our association has undertaken for the last five or six years has been to bring forward the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to Canada and disseminate information about it.
One interesting and important thing associated with the European framework is that there is a learning portfolio and a learning passport. Students and adults can all have a learning passport and portfolio whereby we would be able to self-identify and self-evaluate our progress and our competencies in language.
When programs start in, let's say, elementary school, it's a far cry between the point at which you start and the point at which you would think you are a balanced bilingual. Incrementally, students can track and learn, and that would address the formative assessment, both the assessment as learning and the assessment for learning.