Foreign Language Achievement Testing Service

Proctoring Correspondence Tests

If you are an institution seeking to learn more about our Foreign Language Achievement Testing Service, this section should help answer some of the most basic questions. We currently have testing materials in our testing center for 55 languages. These tests have been created to provide students who have acquired a certain level of proficiency in the language an opportunity to receive credit by examination. The tests, although not nationally normed, have been used and received quite positively by other universities and colleges, mostly schools in the West; however, there have been a few schools in the Midwest and East that have used them as well.

Listed below are some of the universities and colleges that use the tests on a fairly regular basis:

The tests are achievement tests, not global proficiency tests. As such, they are designed to measure a student's performance against specific course-related criteria. They are designed to test beginning-level (i.e., 101, 102, and 201) listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and grammatical accuracy. All tests cover courses equivalent to 12 semester hours of pass/fail credit, and require approximately two and a half hours to complete.

In order for students at your institution to take one of our tests, we require them to secure an on-site proctor. The proctor's responsibility is to be our point of contact in transferring test materials, administering the test fairly and securely, and returning the test to us for grading. If you should have further questions about our tests or the Testing Service, please feel free to contact us by email or by phone at (801) 422-3512.