Use informal assessment in the classroom. If you're a teacher and you're afraid of using FLAREs to evaluate your student's progress, informal assessment is an alternative that still allows students to be graded. The teacher should assign conversation activities or games that require English. The teacher bases his assessment on the level of competency that students demonstrate during these activities. If you don't want to alert your students, don't tell them you're evaluating them.
Present the students with situations they will encounter in day-to-day life. Lectures on grammar and the constant introduction of new vocabulary can be a bit boring. Many students find it useful to practice English in practical situation, such as buying things in a store. Student's progress is measured through increased competency rather than formal assessments such as FLARE.
Study the language benchmarks used by your school, and create your own streamlined student assessment method. Evaluation systems like FLARE are sometimes necessary in larger classes where you don't have the time to get to know every student, but if you're unhappy with the system, create your own. Consider everything you want your students to learn and come up with your own way of assessing your students in those areas.
Get rid of evaluations completely. If you're tutoring a student privately or teaching at casual conversational language school, you may not need to use evaluations. If your students have expressed frustration with the FLARE assessment tools, talk to your employer about getting rid of student evaluations and focusing simply on teaching the class.