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