World Language Credit-by-Exam Available Tests
Languages, cost and additional information about the World Language Credit-by-Exam available testsAlexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) will pay for the first administration of an assessment. A student may repeat an assessment as many times as they wish, but ACPS only covers the cost of the first administration.
ACPS-Approved World Language Assessments
Languages |
Type of Assessment |
Cost |
Test Overview and Practice Tests |
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Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai |
ACTFL Assessment of Performance towards Proficiency in Foreign Languages (AAPPL) (Interpersonal Listening and Speaking/Presentational Writing) (computer based) |
$20 |
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Latin |
ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment (ALIRA) (computer based) |
$10 |
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Amharic, Armenian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chin (Hakha), Czech, Filipino (Tagalog), Haitian- Creole, Hmong, Ilocano, Kannada, Marathi, Marshalese, Samoan, Somali Maay Maay, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yup’ik, Zomi. |
World Speak (presentational speaking and writing) (computer based) |
$49.90 |
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Albanian, Bangla, Bosnian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Dari, Gujarati, Hebrew, Malayalam, Pashto, Polish, Swahili, Tagalog, and Yoruba. |
Combined Writing Proficiency Test AND Oral Proficiency Interview |
$55 |
Available only from February – June Intended for students grades 11-12 WPT:
OPI:
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Danish, Greek (Modern), Norwegian, Persian Farsi, |
Writing Proficiency Test (computer based) AND Oral Proficiency Interview (see below) |
$70 |
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Indonesian, Pashto |
Oral Proficiency Interview – computer based |
$70 |
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Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chavacano, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Ga, Georgian, Guajarati, Hausa, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Iraqi, Javanese, Kazakh, Kikongo-Kongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Korean, Krio, Kurdish-Kurmanji, Kurdish-Sorani, Lao, Levantine, Lingala, Malay, Malayalam, Mandingo-Bambara, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Turkmen, Uighur, Uzbek, Wolof, Zulu |
Oral Proficiency Interview |
$119 – non certified $139 - certified |
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American Sign Language |
American Sign Language Proficiency Interview (ASLPI) |
$185 |
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Bengali, Igbo, Slovak, Twi, Tigrinya, Uzbek and Spanish for students at WIDA level 1-2. |
ALTA Writing Proficiency Test AND Oral Proficiency Test (see above) – on paper |
$65 |
Example Test (in English but used for all languages). The assessment is a maximum of 60 minutes. The prompts will be in the language of choice. |