To serve the needs of a diverse, multi-lingual student population, schools must increasingly find native Spanish speakers who can teach in English and vice versa. In a world of increasing demands for quality and accountability, you must ensure your teachers have adequate language skills to effectively teach in those languages. Versant tests allow administrators to measure the spoken English or Spanish skills that are critical for effective teaching...and with Versant automated tests, screening can be done quickly and objectively, administered in just minutes by telephone or computer.

The Versant tests of spoken English or Spanish will help your school system:

• measure the ability to understand and to be understood in a range of communications.
• support the implementation of consistent language proficiency levels for teachers throughout a state, district, or school.
• evaluate the language proficiency of teachers objectively and consistently.

Versant tests of spoken language enable you to:

• hire teachers who have the spoken language skills needed to teach effectively.
• screen teachers in less time, streamlining your teacher certification processes and reducing assessment costs.
• deliver more objective, consistent assessments without the variability typical of multiple evaluators and administrations.

The Versant tests of spoken language are built using criteria developed by expert linguists. The Ordinate scoring system has been extensively field trialed and validated with reference to the most qualified human evaluators of language proficiency, fluency, and pronunciation.

The Versant testing systems allows you to evaluate all of your teaching professionals on an equal basis with objective, unbiased scoring. It complies with the legal and professional guidelines in the Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures and the Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures governing the use of tests for high-stakes decision-making in organizations.

Your administrators can easily deliver the Versant tests by having teachers take the test over the telephone or on a test center computer. Ordinate automatically scores an employee test, making a detailed score report available for you in the reporting system within minutes of being submitted.