OWLS-II offers an integrated, global approach to language assessment with a new Reading Comprehension Scale, updated norms, new items, a parallel form, improved scoring guidelines, and full-color stimulus materials.

OWLS-II Oral and Written Language Scales | Second Edition
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OWLS-II Oral and Written Language Scales | Second Edition

OWLS-II

OWLS-II offers an integrated, global approach to language assessment with a new Reading Comprehension Scale, updated norms, new items, a parallel form, improved scoring guidelines, and full-color stimulus materials.

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Age range:
3:0–21:11 (LC/OE); 5:0–21:11 (RC/WE)
Scores/interpretation:
Age- and grade-based standard scores (M = 100, SD = 15), testage equivalents, percentile ranks, and descriptive categories; plus 5 Composites—Oral Language, Written Language, Receptive Processing, Expressive Processing, and Overall Language Processing
Qualification level:
B
Completion time:

LC: 10–20 minutes; OE: 10–30 minutes; RC: 10–30 minutes; WE: 15–30 minutes

Administration:

Paper-and-pencil

Scoring options:
Software or manual scoring

The four OWLS-II scales — Listening Comprehension (LC), Oral Expression (OE), Reading Comprehension (RC), and Written Expression (WE) — give a complete, accurate, and useful picture of language skills.

Benefits

  • Identify students with learning disabilities, language disorders, and related difficulties in accordance with IDEA requirements.
  • Design targeted interventions that address potential academic difficulties.
  • Monitor progress, using the new alternate form.
  • Gather longitudinal data for research purposes.

Features

The LC and OE Scales assess receptive and expressive language. The WE Scale measures the expressive aspects of written language. The RC Scale measures the receptive aspects of written language and is uniquely effective in identifying language factors that may be impairing or facilitating reading comprehension. 

Each of the four scales assesses four linguistic structures:

  • Lexical/Semantics
  • Syntax
  • Pragmatics
  • Supralinguistics

You must have Windows XP SP3 or Macintosh OS 10.4 to run the OWLS-II scoring software.

Please note: Apple dropped support for Coco causing these programs to quit working from 10.5 forward.