Student Progress in Spanish Language Proficiency

The Spanish Student Oral Proficiency Assessment (SOPA), an intensive oral assessment in terms of time (15 minutes per 2 students with 1 interviewer), will be administered to English-speaking students in treatment schools in late spring in Years 1 and 4 to a randomly selected set of English-speaking students in each cohort representing 50% of the cohort. The Spanish Two-way Immersion teachers will be trained by the project in the administration and scoring of the SOPA and will administer and rate the results. The teachers will interview each other's students and a volunteer will videotape the session. A Spanish teacher at another site trained in scoring will rate these videotaped sessions. The Center for Applied Linguistics will validate the SOPA ratings. An online third grade assessment instrument in development by the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon will be administered at no cost as part of the piloting of the instrument to third-grade students in Year 4.

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