OWLS II (Oral and Written Language Scales Second Edition
By: Kailey Aldridge and Katelynn Mokry
Subject Areas Assessed
- Listening Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Reading Comprehension
- Written Expression
timed or basal/ceiling?
Age Range:
- It is not timed
- has a Basal of 7 and a Ceiling of 4
- In general Listening Comprehension will take 10-20 minutes, Oral Expression will take 10-30 minutes, Reading Comprehension will take 10-30 minutes, and Written Expression will take 15-30 muutes.
Listening Comprehension:
- Consists of 3 items
- arranged in increasing order of difficulty
- each item is presented verbally while the student is looking at 4 pictures.
- the must picture is selected based off of the verbal statement.
- student can point to the picture or verbally state the number of the picture
- questions assess sipe nouns and high level decoding of literal lexical or syntactic structures.
Oral Expression:
- consists of 106 items
- arranged in increasing order of difficulty
- items are presented orally, while the student looks at the pictures.
- some items have the examiner describe one picture and the student describes the second picture.
- Other items have a verbal model and the student finishes the model with a dscription
Ex: the girl he waved to was sitting
Ex: show me the picture where the two cars are parallel to one another
- Ages 3-21 for Listening Comprehension, Oral Expression, and Reading Comprehension
- Ages 5-21 add written Expression to tests listed above