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Heritage Language Proficiency Testing

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Connecting with one’s heritage through language is more than learning words; it’s embracing an identity and opening doors to a multilingual future. Bilingual and multilingual individuals are highly valued in today’s global job market, often enjoying better career opportunities and higher salaries.

Avant offers a clear, accessible pathway for heritage language learners through a selection of assessments that are tailored for different types of situations. Read more about the purpose for each type of assessment.

Our online assessment leads to 双语能力州州印章, the 全球双语能力认证印章, Avant 数字徽章, and credit-by-exam which showcase proficiency and open opportunities in higher education and beyond.

For teachers in heritage programs, we provide essential resources to enhance teaching, understand assessment results, and enrich curriculums. Join us in nurturing the next generation of bilingual and multilingual leaders, celebrating their unique cultural identities.

Avant Tests for Heritage Programs

STAMP 4S 测试。

STAMP 4S
针对青少年和成人的四项技能评估
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STAMPe 测试

STAMP 4Se
小学四项技能评估
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STAMP WS

STAMP WS
针对青少年和成人的2项技能评估
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STAMP ASL

STAMP 为 ASL
2-技能美国手语评估
接受的 富有表现力的
西班牙遗产

SHL
针对传统项目的西班牙语遗产语言测试
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年轻的学生。

STAMP 单语
具有测试语言说明的4项技能评估
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Objectives of the STAMP Language Assessments

Avant STAMP language assessments are most commonly used for:

  • Qualifying students to receive State or Global Seals of Biliteracy and Avant Digital Badge to potentially receive credits or advanced placement at universities.
  • Credit-by-Exam testing to award high school language credit for a learner’s native language ability. Washington state and 德克萨斯 are examples of states that offer credit-by-exam.
  • Showcasing the effects of language learning.
  • Informing language program curriculum.
  • Providing teachers with valuable insights on the level of learner’s knowledge of the language and progression of skills.
  • Aiding teachers’ ability to improve results throughout the language learning process for well-rounded proficiency.

Benchmark Levels

There are three major proficiency levels assessed: novice, intermediate and advanced. There are three sublevels within the first two levels: low, mid and high, and two (low and mid) for the highest level, corresponding to the one to eight rating. The Avant STAMP ratings are based on the US national proficiency standards.

Writing and Speaking Rating

Writing and speaking skills are assessed by Avant Certified Raters who use the generally accepted scoring rubric procedure, appropriate for individual levels of language competence.

Topics Guide

Novice topics

  • Presentations: name, address, family status, gender, age, date and place of birth, nationality, language, school, education, profession
  • Calendar/ Time
  • Colors/ Shapes
  • Wild animals/ Pets
  • School /Classroom
  • Weather / Seasons
  • Clothing / footwear
  • Food /Beverages /Restaurants / Bars / Dishes
  • Places / Geography, location, towns, public institutions, monuments, tourist attractions
  • Daily life / Everyday routine
  • Shopping / Stores
  • Leisure / Activities
  • Household / House

Intermediate topics

  • Health
  • Holidays / Celebrations
  • Occupations / Professions
  • Transportation / Travel / Vacations
  • Future plans
  • Culture
  • Contemporary Issues
  • Current events
  • Economics
  • Literature
  • Science
  • Social Science
  • History
  • Plus, more in-depth aspects of Novice topics

Advanced topics

  • Arts
  • Politics
  • Religion
  • Math
  • Science / Technology
  • Plus, more in-depth aspects of Intermediate topics

Opportunities for Bilingual Credentials

双语能力州州印章, Global Seals of Biliteracy, and Avant 数字徽章 were created to honor students’ language proficiency skills and provide a reliable validation mechanism to higher education institutions and employers. 

All Seals of Biliteracy and digital badges are earned by a demonstration of language proficiency in two or more languages through an approved external assessment like the Avant STAMP 4S, WS and ASL. In most traditional schools and districts, students achieving the minimum score required to earn a seal have the results placed on their official transcript. 

双语能力州州印章

双语能力州州印章

双语能力州州印章 are awards granted by a school, district, or state to high school seniors in public school environments. 

Avant 数字徽章

Avant 数字徽章

Avant 数字徽章 can be earned by any student and submitted to institutions of higher education for advanced placement into higher-level courses. 

Global Seals of Biliteracy

Global Seals of Biliteracy enable recipients to showcase their language skills to any school or employer across state lines and national borders, with a unique serial-numbered document. The Global Seal is awarded at three levels: Functional, Working, and Professional. Students, teachers, community members, and professionals are all eligible for the Global Seal.

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Credit-by-Exam

Credit-by-Exam is also offered in some states to award high school world language credit to learners with native ability. Washington state and 德克萨斯 are such examples.

Helping Learners Prepare

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Avant STAMP is a real-world communication proficiency assessment. Meaning, it is about what the test taker can do at this point in time. “Cramming” will not help improve scores. Regular practice in writing and speaking the language will help the test taker improve their skills over time. 

Avant has several resources for test takers to help them prepare for the test included in the Test Taker Power-Up Guide. 

This guide and its related resources include:

  • Strategies for improving language skills.
  • Target “can-do” statements to help them understand what they need to be able to do to get to the next proficiency level.
  • Video tutorials on what to expect on the test.
  • Sample tests.

Resources for Community-Based Teachers

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基准尺度

Our Benchmark and Rubric Guide is your key to understanding your students’ proficiency levels.

Knowing how to help your language learners improve and demonstrate proficiency is key to growing their skills. 

Avant has several resources to help teachers understand the levels of proficiency based on internationally recognized standards and use them to inform their curriculum for improved outcomes. 

Avant’s free resources include: 

ADVANCE 在笔记本电脑上

Training on the Proficiency Standards

Avant ADVANCEboosts teacher confidence in accurately scoring student writing responses.  

  • Self-paced with immediate feedback
  • Practice rating student responses
  • Helps set goals and proficiency targets
  • Online and affordable
Learn more about Avant ADVANCE

Avant STAMP 4S

Avant STAMP 4S is the premier computer-adaptive language proficiency assessment typically administered to second-language learners.

STAMP 4S tests Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking and is our most comprehensive assessment. This test takes, on average, two (2) hours to complete and is offered in 17 different languages. 

Reading and Listening sections are multiple-choice and computer-scored with results available immediately. The Writing and Speaking sections are scored by our expert Avant Certified Raters.

The instructions and questions require an Intermediate-Mid understanding of English. For learners with limited English proficiency, a two-skill Writing and Speaking assessment may be used where the prompts may be heard in the testing language in addition to the English written instructions.

STAMP 4S Sample Tests

  1. 阿拉伯语（现代标准）
  2. 英语
  3. 法语
  4. 德国
  5. 希伯来语
  6. 印地语
  7. 意大利语
  8. 日本人
  9. 韩国
  10. 普通话（简体）
  11. 普通話（繁體）
  12. 波兰语
  13. 葡萄牙语（巴西）
  14. 俄罗斯
  15. 西班牙语

Avant STAMPe

Avant STAMPe is the gold standard for linguistically and developmentally appropriate language assessment content for learners ages 12 and under.

STAMPe tests have been approved for use as early as K-1. 

STAMP 4Se assesses Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking and is our most comprehensive assessment. This test takes, on average, two (2) hours to complete and is offered in 14 different languages. 

STAMP WSe tests Writing and Speaking. On average, it takes one (1) hour to complete and is available in 2 languages.

Reading and Listening sections are multiple-choice and computer-scored with results available immediately. The Writing and Speaking sections are scored by our expert Avant Certified Raters.

Each section can be completed in any order and one at a time for more flexible testing times and durations.

STAMP 4Se Sample Tests

  1. 阿拉伯语（现代标准）
  2. 粤语
  3. 英语
  4. 法语
  5. 德国
  6. 夏威夷语（‘Ōlelo Hawai’i）
  7. 希伯来语
  8. 日本人
  9. 韩国
  10. 普通话（简体）
  11. 普通話（繁體）
  12. 葡萄牙语（巴西）
  13. 俄罗斯
  14. 西班牙语
  15. Yup’ik

STAMP WSe Sample Tests

  1. 亚美尼亚
  2. 乌克兰语
  3. 越南语

Avant STAMP WS

Avant STAMP WS language proficiency assessment is a semi-adaptive Writing and Speaking test. Test takers will be asked to answer seven (7) self-evaluation questions that best represent their skill/ability level in both the Reading and Listening sections. 

The self-evaluated Reading score is used to determine the level of prompt delivered for the Writing section. The same applies for the Listening self-evaluation related to the Speaking prompts. This allows the language productive sections to be more appropriately leveled for the test taker. 
STAMP WS takes about one (1) hour to complete. The test is fully scored by our expert Avant Certified Raters. 

The instructions and prompts require an Intermediate-Mid understanding of English. For learners with limited English proficiency, the prompts may be heard in the testing language in addition to the English written instructions.

STAMP WS Sample Tests

  1. 阿姆哈拉语
  2. 亚美尼亚
  3. 孟加拉
  4. 佛得角人
  5. 卡尔代亚语（仅限口语）
  6. Chin (Hakha)
  7. 楚克语
  8. 捷克
  9. 菲律宾语（塔加洛语）
  10. 希腊
  11. 海地克里奥尔语
  12. 夏威夷语（‘Ōlelo Hawai’i）
  13. 苗族
  14. Ilocano
  15. 卡纳达语
  16. 高棉
  17. 马拉地语
  18. 马绍尔语
  19. 尼泊尔语
  20. 普什图语
  21. 波斯语-法尔西语
  22. 旁遮普语
  23. 萨摩亚语
  24. 索马里Maay Maay
  25. 索马里 Maxaa
  26. 斯瓦希里
  27. 泰米尔
  28. 泰卢固语
  29. 泰国
  30. 提格利尼亚语
  31. 土耳其
  32. 乌克兰语
  33. 乌都
  34. 越南语
  35. 约鲁巴
  36. Yup’ik
  37. Zomi

Avant SuperLanguage 测试

  1. 阿布哈兹语
  2. 阿法罗莫语
  3. 阿尔巴尼亚语
  4. 阿拉伯语 - 阿尔及利亚
  5. 阿拉伯语 - 阿拉伯湾
  6. 阿拉伯语 - 埃及
  7. 阿拉伯语 - 伊拉克
  8. 阿拉伯语 - 约旦
  9. 阿拉伯语 - 黎巴嫩
  10. 阿拉伯语 - 利比亚
  11. 阿拉伯语 - 摩洛哥
  12. 阿拉伯语 - 巴勒斯坦
  13. 阿拉伯语 - 苏丹
  14. 阿拉伯语 - 叙利亚
  15. 阿拉伯语 - 突尼斯
  16. 阿拉伯语 - 也门
  17. 班巴拉/巴马纳干
  18. 比科尔
  19. 波斯尼亚
  20. 缅甸语
  21. 粤语
  22. 加泰罗尼亚
  23. 宿务语
  24. 勤奋
  25. CHamoru (查莫罗)
  26. 丹麦
  27. 达里
  28. Dinka
  29. 荷兰语
  30. Dyula
  31. 爱沙尼亚
  32. 绵羊
  33. 斐济印地语
  34. 斐济语
  35. 富拉尼
  36. 格鲁吉亚语
  37. 古吉拉特语
  38. 豪萨语
  39. 夏威夷克里奥尔
  40. 赫雷罗语（Otjiherero）
  41. 匈牙利
  42. 冰岛的
  43. 伊博
  44. Ilonggo (希利盖农)
  45. 印度尼西亚
  46. 牙买加派图阿
  47. 景颇（克钦）*
  48. K’iche’
  49. Kankanaey
  50. 卡帕姆潘根（庞帕戈）
  51. Karen
  52. 基库尤
  53. 基尼亚卢旺达语（基尼亚穆伦格语）
  54. 基隆迪
  55. 科斯雷恩
  56. 克里奥语
  57. Kunama
  58. 老
  59. 拉脱维亚
  60. 林加拉
  61. Lisan ud-Dawat
  62. 立陶宛
  63. 卢干达语（甘达）
  64. 马来语
  65. 马拉雅拉姆语
  66. 曼丁卡（曼丁哥）
  67. 米斯特克
  68. 蒙古语
  69. 莫特洛克语
  70. 挪威语 - 博克马尔
  71. 挪威语 - Nynorsk
  72. Nuer
  73. 尼扬贾语（奇切瓦语）
  74. 奥里亚语 (Oriya)
  75. 帕劳语（Palall）
  76. Pangasinan
  77. 波恩佩语
  78. Q’anjob’al
  79. 罗马尼亚语
  80. Saho
  81. 梵文
  82. 肖纳
  83. 僧伽罗语（僧伽罗人）
  84. Soninke
  85. 斯瓦齐语（siSwati）
  86. 瑞典
  87. 锡尔赫蒂
  88. 塔塔尔
  89. 藏语（Bod-skad）
  90. Tok Pisin
  91. 汤加语
  92. Twi
  93. 乌兹别克
  94. Visayan（比萨亚）
  95. Waray-Waray
  96. 沃洛夫
  97. 雅浦语
  98. Zigula

* Abkhazian, Herero (Otjiherero), Jingpho (Kachin)*, Kankanaey, Karen, Lisan ud-Dawat, Zigula are temporarily unavailable.

STAMP 为 ASL

Avant STAMP for ASL is a first-of-its-kind American Sign Language test. It was developed for second-language learners of ASL and Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) in collaboration with Bridges Oregon. This assessment is designed for ages 13-18. 

Test takers may be evaluated on the Receptive skill (the ability to comprehend ASL) as well as the Expressive skill (the ability to create ASL) including the use of ASL grammar. This computer-adaptive Sign Language test is conducted entirely online.

The Receptive skill is computer-adaptive and results are available immediately upon completion of the section. The Expressive skill is scored by members of the ASL linguistics community who have undergone Avant Rater Certification training. Expressive results are available within 25 business days.

STAMP for ASL Sample Test

  1. 美国手语 (ASL)

Spanish Heritage Language (SHL)

Avant’s Spanish Heritage Language assessment is a placement test for heritage language programs. It measures Vocabulary, Grammar, Verb use, Spelling, and Writing and Speaking proficiency in Spanish that is appropriate for the wide range of Spanish spoken in the US. 

The Avant SHL test identifies less proficient students quickly and allows them to exit the test early, while more proficient students take the entire test to gather the data necessary to accurately place them.

SHL Sample Test

  1. 西班牙语

Avant STAMP Monolingual

Avant developed the STAMP 单语 as a proficiency test that is designed to include instructions, questions, and prompts all in the target language. Educators may use STAMP Monolingual tests to accurately assess incoming heritage speakers, provide credit for a heritage language, or assess proficiency in a bilingual or multicultural environment.

STAMP Monolingual assesses Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking. This test takes, on average, two (2) hours to complete and is offered in 2 languages. 

Reading and Listening sections are multiple-choice and computer-scored with results available immediately. The Writing and Speaking sections are scored by our expert Avant Certified Raters.

STAMP Monolingual Sample Tests

  1. 西班牙语
  2. 阿拉伯语（现代标准）

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