IPT Early Childhood and the Pre-IPT are designed for the preschool child who is not used to taking tests, the tests center around a story, giving young students a low-anxiety context in which to …

The scaled scores are on a continuous vertical scale that links together the IPT Oral Tests (Pre, I, and II) in each test language and allows growth to be determined across levels.

The Reading/Writing tests have three levels: The IPT 1 (grades 2,3), the IPT 2 (grades 4-6), and the IPT 3 (grades 7-12). Scoring of the writing samples is done using a set of rubrics and examples of …

The current editions of the IPT Oral and Reading & Writing tests in English and Spanish are listed in the tables below.

Each test provides a skill-specific proficiency level and student designation of non, limited, or fluent/competent in English. When the Oral, Reading, and Writing tests are taken together, the …

Before you give any IPT test for the first time, you should read the Examiner’s Manual. This manual gives detailed instructions about administering and scoring the test.

To answer the test questions, students must apply practical, real-life skills to note, infer, and predict from details in these situations. Test items assess students’ ability to read for information.

The test items on the IPT Oral tests are organized into sets, from simple to complex, that represent skills typical for language learners at different proficiency levels.

One of the language proficiency measurement instruments is IPT. This is a family of normed oral language proficiency tests provided by Ballard & Tighe Publishers. These tests are normed to meet …

When the IPT is used for initial identification, these scores are used for designating the student as an English Learner or Spanish learner, or as English or Spanish proficient.