World Language Credit Testing
World Language Assessment for Students Who Acquired Language Proficiency Outside the Classroom
Seattle Public Schools offers World Language Credit Testing remotely. Please read below and register to test if interested. Your testing date and time will be confirmed by email two weeks prior to testing. In order to create as many testing opportunities as possible for students you will be asked to confirm by email in order to secure your testing spot. Please check your email and respond to confirm two weeks prior to testing. If you would like to test in-person please choose that option during registration. In-person testing may be offered at specific dates determined by need.
Read to learn more about testing in your own language:
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Chinese (simplified)
- Chinese (traditional)
- English
- Somali
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Tigrigna
- Vietnamese
Test Registration / Sign-up Information
Hello! Thank you for your interest in world language credit testing with Seattle Public Schools. At this time testing is full for 2022-2023 school year. However your school may offer a testing date so please check with school or plan to register for next year. If you are a 12th grader in need of testing please talk with your school counselor so we can arrange a time for you to test. Thank you!
Test Dates for 2022-2023
- Saturday, October 8, 2022 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, October 29, 2022 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, November 19, 2022 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, December 10, 2022 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, January 21, 2023 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, February 11, 2023 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, March 25, 2023 – Registration Closed
- Saturday, April 29, 2023 – Registration Closed
What languages can a student test in?
STAMP Assessment:
Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified & Traditional), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, more languages being added soon.
WORLDSPEAK Assessment:
Amharic, ASL, Armenian, Chin (Hakha), Chuukese, Czech, English, Filipino (Tagalog), French, Haitian-Creole, Hmong, Ilocano, Korean, Marathi, Marshallese, Samoan, Somali Maay Maay, Somali Maxaa, Swahili, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba, Yup’ik, and Zomi.
ALTA Assessment:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Chuukese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Ewe, Farsi, Finnish, Fulani, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Jamaican Patois, Kannada, Karenni, Kurdish, Latvian, Lao, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Wolof. View other ALTA Assessments.
We also offer ASL testing and you can register for that by completing the same registration above.
Do you speak a language that is not listed above? Please register and we will do our best to find a test for you.
Additional information about World Language Credit Testing. Also available in Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigringa, and Vietnamese.