 He analyzed areas of the WASL using criteria from developmental psychology and the Scales of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).Orlich has found areas of the Grade Level Expectations (GLEs), hence the WASL test, to be developmentally inappropriate.He has won a national award from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development for a critical analysis he wrote on the fourth-grade WASL, although the OSPI disagrees with the analysis.