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Oral Passage Understanding Scale (OPUS<sup>&trade;</sup>) assesses listening comprehension in children and young people.<br />
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OPUS Oral Passage Understanding Scale assesses listening comprehension, a skill that is essential for classroom learning. Get OPUS from Pearson now.

Oral Passage Understanding Scale

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language | Second Edition

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			<p>The Oral Passage Understanding Scale is a new measure of listening (auditory) comprehension designed to assess the comprehension of spoken language in a natural context.</p>

			<h3>Benefits</h3>

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				<li>Provide a cohesive evaluation across a broad range of language areas.</li>
				<li>Determine how well a person can integrate and apply these skills.</li>
				<li>Evaluate a person&#39;s ability to listen to passages that are read aloud and recall information about them.&nbsp;</li>
				<li>Evaluate the ability to integrate and apply knowledge in three structural categories of language: Lexical/Semantic, Syntactic, Supralinguistic.</li>
				<li>Measure memory skills, which are integral to listening comprehension.</li>
				<li>Answer a variety of referrals (i.e., Can a student sufficiently understand and retain information heard in class?)</li>
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			<h3>Features</h3>

			<p>An excellent companion test to the CASL-2, use OPUS on its own to quickly measure listening comprehension.</p>

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				<li>Includes 17 passages, each with 7 to 10 associated questions.</li>
				<li>Offers an in-depth picture of 14 spoken language skills.</li>
				<li>Each item set is based on examinee&#39;s age and ability, and has 5 passages and up to 44 items.</li>
				<li>Passages are arranged in order of difficulty and are carefully crafted to offer a variety of content and styles.</li>
				<li>OPUS components include a record form, easel, manual, and training audio files.</li>
				<li>Standardization for the OPUS is based on a sample of 1,517 individuals ages 5 to 21 years.</li>
				<li>Co-normed with CASL-2.</li>
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			<h3>Resources</h3>

			<p>The following resources are available for OPUS.</p>

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				<li><a href="http://www.wpspublish.com/OPUS">Training Audio Files</a></li>
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