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LAS Testing
Per California State law, students must be assessed in their primary language.
The Language Assessment Scales (LAS) Test is a test given to Spanish speaking students entering the public school system in the United States for the first time. Students with primary languages other than Spanish or English fill out a questionnaire that helps evaluate their primary language skills.
Spanish-speaking students are tested via Oral and Language Assessment Scales (LAS) in Reading/Writing. The LAS-O measures phonemic, lexical, syntactical, and pragmatic language subsystems. Diverse measurement types, content areas, and scoring procedures are incorporated into one Spanish form to help facilitate the test. LAS R/W assesses writing skills directly and uses selected response items to measure vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, mechanics and usage. Parents will receive the results of their students tests by mail.
A language survey is used for languages other than Spanish.