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OPUS Manual

Oral Passage Understanding Scale

OPUS

Oral Passage Understanding Scale (OPUS™) assesses listening comprehension in children and young people.

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      Includes CASL-2 Complete Kit [CASL-2 Manual (Print), Easel 1 (Print), Easel 2 (Print), Easel 3 (Print), and 10 Comprehensive Record Forms (Print)] and OPUS Complete Kit [OPUS Manual (Print), Easel (Print), 10 Record Forms (Print)]

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    Overview

    Publication date:
    2017

    Age range:
    5 to 21 years

    Scores/interpretation:
    Age- and grade-based standard scores and percentiles, test-age and grade equivalents

    Qualification level:
    B

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    Completion time:
    10 to 20 minutes

    Administration:
    Individually administered; the examiner reads a passage and related questions aloud from a self-standing easel and the examinee responds orally—no reading or writing required

    Norms:
    Based on a stratified sample of 1,517 individuals that is representative of the U.S. population in terms of gender, race/ethnicity, parent education level, and geographic region

    Product Details

    The Oral Passage Understanding Scale is a new measure of listening (auditory) comprehension designed to assess the comprehension of spoken language in a natural context.

    Benefits

    • Provide a cohesive evaluation across a broad range of language areas.
    • Determine how well a person can integrate and apply these skills.
    • Evaluate a person's ability to listen to passages that are read aloud and recall information about them. 
    • Evaluate the ability to integrate and apply knowledge in three structural categories of language: Lexical/Semantic, Syntactic, Supralinguistic.
    • Measure memory skills, which are integral to listening comprehension.
    • Answer a variety of referrals (i.e., Can a student sufficiently understand and retain information heard in class?)

    Features

    An excellent companion test to the CASL-2, use OPUS on its own to quickly measure listening comprehension.

    • Includes 17 passages, each with 7 to 10 associated questions.
    • Offers an in-depth picture of 14 spoken language skills.
    • Each item set is based on examinee's age and ability, and has 5 passages and up to 44 items.
    • Passages are arranged in order of difficulty and are carefully crafted to offer a variety of content and styles.
    • OPUS components include a record form, easel, manual, and training audio files.
    • Standardization for the OPUS is based on a sample of 1,517 individuals ages 5 to 21 years.
    • Co-normed with CASL-2.
    		 

    Resources

    The following resources are available for OPUS.

    		 

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