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LAS Links Online™ accurately assesses Grades 2–12 English language proficiency using a secure, robust online testing platform. Students' spoken and written responses are captured electronically allowing teachers to score the responses anytime, anywhere. Reading and writing selected-response items are also captured electronically and scored automatically, allowing teachers to turn test results into immediate classroom results and helps schools meet ESEA accountability and reporting requirements.

Subject Area and Grades

  • English Language Proficiency for listening, reading, speaking, and writing
  • Grades 2–12

Assessment Type

  • Summative
  • Diagnostic

Delivery Format

  • Online

Scoring Option

  • Online
 
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Overview

LAS Links Online accurately assesses grades 2–12 English language proficiency using a secure, robust online testing platform.

  • LAS Links Online provides rubrics and exemplary responses to help ease the scoring process and promote teacher professional development.
  • Educators will have immediate access to informative diagnostic reports, allowing them to quickly determine vital information about a student's English language proficiency.

 

Benefits

  • Provides quicker, easier, and more convenient ways to administer and score English language proficiency tests with a fully Internet-based solution.
  • Provides immediate results to inform language instruction and recommend remediation.
  • Allows educators to spend less time assessing and reporting, and more time teaching and supporting learning with a cost-effective, easy-to-use internet application.
  • Share easy-to-read reports and graphs with teachers and administrators to inform instruction, and if needed, recommend remediation.
  • Save, import, or export student data and test results to eliminate the need for paper-and-pencil materials helping save time, money, and the environment.
  • Eliminates the time consuming process of hand-scoring and manually calculating language proficiency test results.
  • Offers new forms on a yearly basis, providing the freshest academic language content to better measure language proficiency within and across content areas.
  • All domain assessments for listening, reading, speaking, and writing are group administered. Online group test administrations are extremely efficient because they minimize the time needed for administration and scoring, saving districts and schools considerable expense.

LAS Links Online Resources

Featured Article

LAS Links can be used for English language development and progress monitoring by using a combination of the LAS Links assessments. Depending on program need and intent, LAS Links provides schools and districts with the option of measuring student progress up to five times per year.

Customer Story - Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, California

Sweetwater Union High School District implements LAS Links® in its English Language Development (ELD) courses to measure English learners' (EL's) progress and inform instructional decisions. Using the integrated suite of English language proficiency assessments from CTB/McGraw-Hill, the district reports improved student performance across all language domains and ELD levels. In addition, in 2010, the EL subgroup at every middle and high school achieved at least double its Academic Performance Index (API) target, surpassing state averages and the performance of comparable school districts in San Diego County.

 

LAS Links Product Overview

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Applicable Grants

ESEA: Title I, School Improvement Grants

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Video providing an overview of the LAS Links suite of language proficiency assessment products. Read Transcript

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Huan Wang, Ph.D. Research Scientist, CTB/McGraw-Hill
The webinar will present and discuss:
• Defining language demand
• Digital literacy and the challenges ELL students face
• Designing a language assessment task
• Machine scoring and general considerations

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Genevieve Olvera, MBA, ELL Solutions Manager Strategic Accounts, CTB/McGraw-Hill
The webinar sponsored by The Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents (ALAS) and CTB discusses innovations and technology advancements in online assessments for ELL students.

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Changhua Sun Rich, Ph.D. Research Director, Asia CTB/McGraw-Hill
This on-demand webinar introduces the English Online System™ (EOS) and LAS Links Online™. EOS is a formative online proficiency assessment with artificial intelligence currently being utilized in China. EOS helps set the foundation for the development of LAS Links Online, which is now available in the United States to accurately assess English language proficiency for all four domains for Grades 2–12 using a secure, robust, online testing platform.

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