Standards-Based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP) and World Speak are online assessments that test reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in a variety of languages. 

The test is not timed but typically takes about 2-3 hours. The instructions are in English. If you are unsure about English reading skills, take the practice test first.

Students can prepare for this assessment by reading the STAMP Test Taker Guide and taking a a STAMP Sample Test. 

Available Languages

• Arabic
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Italian Japanese
• Korean
• Mandarin (Simplified and Traditional)
• Polish
• Russian Spanish
• Armenian
• Filipino (Tagalog
• Haitian-Creole
• Ilocano
• Samoan Somali Maay
• Somali Maxaa
• Tamil
• Vietnamese
• Yup'ik

Writing Assessment

The ALTA Writing Assessment is a hand-written test with several “prompts” (or questions) for you to write about. Write as much as you can in connected paragraphs. It is OK to make a few grammar mistakes. 

Listening Assessment

Taken after the Writing Assessment, the  ALTA Listening Assessment is an interview by telephone with a native speaker, which will be scheduled at your school after we receive writing scores.

Available Languages

• Albanian
• Amharic
• Azerbaijani
• Baluchi (Western)
• Bambara
• Bengali
• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Burmese
• Cambodian
• Cantonese (Traditional)
• Chuukese
• Croatian
• Czech Danish
• Dari Farsi
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Ewe
• Fante (Akan)
• Finnish
• Fulfulde (Fulani)
• Ga
• Greek (Modern)
• Gujarati
• Hausa
• Hmong-Mong
• Hungarian
• Ibo
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Jamaican Patois
• Kazakh
• Kurdish (Kurmandji)
• Kurdish (Sorani)
• Laotian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Malayalam
• Nepali
• Norwegian
• Oromo
• Pashto
• Persian Farsi
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Punjabi (Eastern)
• Punjabi (Western)
• Romanian
• Serbian
• Serbo-Croatian
• Sinhala
• Slovak
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Taiwanese (Traditional)
• Tajik
• Telegu
• Thai
• Tibetan
• Tigrinya
• Turkish
• Turkmen
• Twi (Akan)
• Ukranian
• Urdu
• Uzbek
• Wolof
• Yoruba

All languages not tested by the STAMP and World Speak or ALTA assessments will be tested using WPT & Proctored Writing Test, AAPL OPI, and OPIc.

Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) & Proctored Writing Test

The WPT and Proctored Writing tasks are English prompts for which the student provides hand-written response in the target language. The responses are evaluated to determine whether they demonstrate proficiency at a sufficient level to recommend 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits (i.e. at least Novice Mid, at least Novice High, at least Intermediate Low, or at least Intermediate Mid) -- but not higher than that because the evaluators for these less commonly taught/tested languages have not been formally trained to provide a precise proficiency rating.

Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)

The OPI is a structured phone conversation with a speaker of the target language.  The interaction is scored based on word usage and sentence structure.

Oral Proficiency Interview on the Computer (OPIc)

The OPIc is a computer-assisted oral assessment in which the student interacts orally with an avatar to have a conversation in the target language. The interaction is scored based on word usage and sentence structure.