Spanish-Language Assessments for Dual Language Programs

Spanish-Language Assessments for Dual Language Programs

2014 Update

Abbreviation

Test Name

Oral Reading/ Academic VocabLanguage Writing Subjects ulary

Grades or Age Group

The ACTFL

Assessment of

AAPPL

Performance

toward Proficiency

in Languages

Grade 5 through postsecondary; oral

language component appropriate for primary grades

Aprenda 3

Aprenda?: La prueba de logros en

espa?ol, Tercera edici?n

Grades K-12

Bater?a-III

Bater?a III Woodcock-Mu?oz

Age 2 to adult

Boehm-3

Boehm Test of Basic Concepts,

Third Edition

Grades K-2

Assessment of

Brigance

Basic Skills ?

Grades PreK-9

ABS-R

Revised, Spanish

edition

BSM1

BSM--Medida de

sintaxis biling?e

Grades PreK-2 (BSM I), Grades 3-

12 (BSM II)

BVAT

Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests

Age 5 to adult

COPE

CAL Oral Proficiency Exam

Children's Progress

CPAA

Academic

Assessment

Grades 5-7 PreK-2

Administration Format

Individual, computerized

Group

Individual Group

Individual

Individual Individual Paired interview Individual, computerized

Measures

Performance assessment of language proficiency; covers interpersonal listening/speaking, presentational writing, and interpretive reading and listening

Reading, math, language, spelling, listening, science, and social science

Cognitive battery; achievement battery (reading, oral language, math,

writing, academic language proficiency, vocabulary)

50 basic concepts most frequently occurring in kindergarten, first, and

second grade curriculum

Readiness, oral language, vocabulary, reading comprehension, spelling, writing, computation, math

problem solving

Dialogue between administrator and student is the basis for a measure of

syntactic structures Picture vocabulary, oral vocabulary, and verbal analogies tests from the

Woodcock-Johnson-III Oral interview/role play technique

with two students, measures cognitive-academic language skills as

well as social language Early literacy (reading, listening, phonemic awareness, phonics/writing

mechanics) and math skills

Equivalent Assessment in English or Other

Languages

Available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish and ESL

The Stanford Achievement Test

Series, Tenth Edition (Stanford

10)

Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III)

Directions available in English and Spanish Brigance Comprehensive

Inventory of Basic Skills?Revised (CIBS?R) Bilingual Syntax Measure I and II

(BSM-I and BSM-II)

Available in 18 languages

May be adapted to any language

Available in English

Publisher

American Council on the Teaching

of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Pearson Assessment

Riverside Publishing

Pearson Assessment

Curriculum Associates

Pearson Assessment

Riverside Publishing Center for

Applied Linguistics

NWEA

1 No longer listed on Pearson website; older versions may still be in use.

Notes. See the original 2007 report at for more details on assessments and for inclusion criteria. Assessments that were not included in the original report are shaded. The assessments listed in this update may be appropriate for use in Spanish/English dual language programs; additional information from publishers should be consulted before selecting assessments. The quality of these assessments has not been evaluated by CAL.

Abbreviation

Test Name

Oral Reading/ Academic VocabLanguage Writing Subjects ulary

Grades or Age Group

Evaluaci?n del

EDL 2

desarrollo de la

lectura? 2

Early Language

ELLOPA

Listening and Oral Proficiency

Assessment

Evaluaci?n del nivel

ENIL

independiente de

lectura

Stanford Foreign

FLOSEM

Language Oral Skills Evaluation

Matrix

Get Ready to Get Ready to Read!

Read!

Revised

Grades K-6

Grades PreK-2

Grades PreK-12

Grades PreK-12

Ages 3-5

Indicadores

IDEL

din?micos del ?xito

en la lectura

IDEA Oral

IPT-O

Language

Proficiency Test

IDEA Reading and

IPT-R&W Writing Proficiency

Test

Istation's Indicators

ISIP Espa?ol

of Progress -

Espa?ol

Grades K-3

Ages 3 to 5 (Pre-

IPT), Grades K-6 (IPT I), Grades 7-12

(IPT II)

Grades K-1 (Early

Literacy), Grades 2-

3 (IPT 1), Grades 4-

6 (IPT 2), Grades 7-

12 (IPT 3)

PreK-3

Administration Format Individual

Paired interview Individual conference Informal

Individual

Individual

Individual

Group

Individual, computerized

Measures

Reading level is determined by performance in reading conference; measures include fluency, reading

comprehension, non-fiction text features, reading strategies

Language proficiency interview: Students scored on vocabulary, oral

fluency, grammar, listening comprehension, communication strategies, cultural awareness Comprehension (literature and informational text), foundational reading skills, range of reading & level of text complexity, vocabulary

Language proficiency observations: Students scored on comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation,

grammar

Measures reading and writing readiness on a five-point scale; print

knowledge, book knowledge, phonological awareness, phonics

Letter naming fluency, phoneme segmentation, nonsense word fluency, oral reading fluency, oral retelling, fluency in word use

Equivalent Assessment in English or Other

Languages

Developmental Reading

Assessment (DRA)

Publisher

Pearson Assessment

May be adapted to any language

Center for Applied Linguistics

Independent Reading Level Assessment (IRLA)

May be adapted to any language

American Reading Company

California Foreign Language

Project, Stanford, CA; adapted from

SOLOM

Available in English

Pearson Assessment

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills

(DIBELS)

University of Oregon Institute

for the Development of

Educational Achievement

Vocabulary, comprehension, syntax, verbal expression

Parallel form in English

Reading component: vocabulary, vocabulary in context, reading for understanding, reading for life skills,

and language usage; Writing component: ability to generate writing

that reflects common usage and academic grade-level standards

Vocabulary, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, phonological

awareness & phonics, fluency, spelling & writing conventions

Parallel form in English

ISIP Early Reading

Ballard & Tighe Ballard & Tighe

Istation

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Abbreviation

Test Name

Oral Reading/ Academic VocabLanguage Writing Subjects ulary

Grades or Age Group

KeyLinks2

KeyLinks? en espa?ol: La conexi?n entre instrucci?n y evaluaci?n

Grades 1-12

Language

LAS Links Assessment Scales

Links

Grades K-12

Logramos

Logramos, 2nd Edition

Grades K-12

Minnesota Modified

MN-SOLOM Student Language

Observation Matrix

Grades PreK-12

Oral Language

OLAI-2

Acquisition Inventory, Second

Edition

Grades PreK-6

Phonological

PALS Espa?ol

Awareness Literacy Screening in

Spanish

Grades K-3

Prueba de

PHAI

Habilidades

Acad?micas

Iniciales

Ages 4 to 7

Preschool

PLS-5

Language Scales,

Fifth Edition

Birth through 7 years

Administration Format

Group

Individual or group

Group

Informal

Individual or small group

Group and individual Individual Individual

Measures

Equivalent Assessment in English or Other

Languages

Academic achievement in reading/language arts and math

Oral language; pronunciation; Vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, mechanics & usage;

writing Vocabulary, reading comprehension, spelling, capitalization, punctuation,

usage and expression, math concepts & estimation, math problem solving and data interpretation, math

computation Language proficiency during oral interview or observation of natural language use; scored on academic

comprehension, social comprehension, fluency, vocabulary,

pronunciation, grammar Phonemic awareness, print concepts,

repeated sentences, story retelling and comprehension, learning

behavior, expository reading and writing

Phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, letter-sound knowledge,

concept of word, oral reading, phonemic awareness

Reading, writing, mathematics, spoken language; reveals early achievement in children at risk for

school failure

KeyLinks?: The Connection

Between Instruction & AssessmentTM

Available in English

Iowa Tests

May be adapted to any language

Available in English

Available in English

Young Children's Achievement Test

Auditory comprehension, expressive

communication

Available in English

Publisher

Pearson Assessment

CTB McGraw-Hill

Riverside Publishing

SOLOM revised by Minnesota Department of

Education

Pearson Assessment

PALS Marketplace

ProEd Inc.

Pearson Assessment

2 No longer listed on Pearson website; older versions may still be in use.

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Abbreviation PODER/ PUEDE

Pre-LAS

ROWPVT-4, EOWPVT-4

SABE/2 SEL SSLP

SOLOM SOPA SRI

Test Name

Prueba ?ptima del Desarrollo del

Espa?ol Realizado; Prueba ?til y Eficaz del Desarrollo de

Espa?ol

Pre-LAS 2000

Receptive and Expressive One-

Word Picture Vocabulary Tests,

Fourth Edition Spanish

Assessment of Basic Education, Second Edition

Sistema de evaluaci?n de la

lectura

Stanford Spanish Language

Proficiency Test

Student Oral Language Observation Matrix

Student Oral Proficiency Assessment Scholastic Reading Inventory ? Print

Version

Oral Reading/ Academic Language Writing Subjects

Vocabulary

Grades or Age Group

Available for Kindergarten, other

grades in development

Grades PreK-1

Age 2 to adult

Grades 1-8

Grades K-2

Grades PreK-12

Grades PreK-12

Grades 2-8 Grades 1-12

Administration Format

Individual for K, group for other grades; Speaking is

individual, computerized

Individual

Individual

Group

Individual

Group and individual

Informal

Paired interview Group

Measures

Academic Spanish proficiency in listening/speaking, reading, and writing; uses expository and narrative

story lines

Oral language component: listening comprehension, expressive

vocabulary, expressive skills in syntax, semantics, morphology; preliteracy component: receptive and expressive literacy skills in reading

and writing

Receptive and expressive vocabulary

Reading, language, mathematics, spelling

Decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

Listening, writing conventions, reading, writing, speaking

Language proficiency during oral interview or observation of natural

language use: Scored on comprehension, fluency, vocabulary,

pronunciation, grammar Language proficiency interview: Scored on vocabulary, oral fluency, grammar, listening comprehension

Reading comprehension

Equivalent Assessment in English or Other

Languages

No English Equivalent

Available in English

Available in English

No English equivalent Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment

System Stanford English

Language Proficiency Test

(ELP)

May be adapted to any language

May be adapted to any language

Available in English

Publisher

World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment

(WIDA)

CTB McGraw-Hill

Pearson Assessment

CBT/McGraw Hill

Heinemann

Pearson Assessment San Jose Area

Bilingual Consortium, revised by California Dep't. of Education Center for

Applied Linguistics Scholastic

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Abbreviation

Test Name

Oral Reading/ Academic VocabLanguage Writing Subjects ulary

Grades or Age Group

Cambridge Step by

SSALD

Step Assessment to Language

Dominance

Standards-based

STAMP

Measurement of

Proficiency

STAR

STAR Reading Spanish

Grades K-8

Grade 3 to adult Grades 1-5

SUPERA

SUPERA

Grades 1-10

Test of Early

Language

TELD-3:S

Development ?

Third Edition:

Spanish

Test of

TPAS

Phonological Awareness in

Spanish

Test de vocabulario

TVIP

en im?genes

Peabody

Woodcock-Mu?oz

WMLS-R Language Survey?

Revised

Ages 2 to 7

Ages 4 to 10

Ages 2 to 17

Age 2 to adult

Administration Format Individual Individual,

computerized Individual,

computerized

Group

Individual

Individual Individual Individual

Measures

Oral language interview; reading comprehension; directed writing sample; affective, social, cognitive

student profile checklist

Reading, writing, listening, speaking

Reading Skills Evaluaciones esenciales: selected response tests in reading/language

arts and math; Evaluaciones m?ltiples: selected and open ended response tests in reading/language arts and math; SUPERA Plus: word

analysis, vocabulary, language mechanics, spelling, and mathematics computation

Receptive and expressive language

Equivalent Assessment in English or Other

Languages

Also available in English and Portuguese

Also available in Arabic, Chinese,

French, and Japanese

STAR Assessments

TerraNova, Second Edition (CAT/6)

Test of Early Language Development ? Third Edition

Publisher

Cambridge (Mass.) Public

Schools Avant Assessment Renaissance Learning

CTB McGraw-Hill

ProEd Inc.

Phonological awareness measured through four subtests: initial sounds, final sounds, rhyming words, deletion

No English equivalent

Pearson Assessment

Receptive vocabulary

Picture vocabulary, verbal analogies, letter-word identification, dictation,

understanding directions, story recall, passage comprehension

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

(PPVT 4)

Available in English

Pearson Assessment

Riverside Publishing

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