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Assess your language skills
The Online Diagnostic Assessment identifies your strengths and needs in foreign language study.
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Evaluate and manage
your learning

Identify your current language strengths and the skills you require to advance to a higher proficiency

Diagnostic Profile

Complete an assessment to get a personalized Diagnostic Profile—a snapshot of what specific areas you excel in and what areas are most challenging.
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Feedback

Receive individualized feedback based on your abilities across a variety of levels, topics, tasks, and specific language features.
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What to Expect During Assessment

ODA Reading and Listening are adaptive assessments. Your answers determine the level of subsequent questions. Providing correct answers will result in more challenging questions as you move to higher proficiency levels.
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Understanding Proficiency

Each assessment item is either selected or adapted from genuine sources, aligning with the level descriptions provided by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR).
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Learning Plans (Coming Soon)

Obtain tailored lesson plans designed to improve your proficiency in the areas that require the most improvement. Identify GLOSS lessons that are most relevant for your current level, areas that need improvement, and mode of learning.
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How to Answer the Question

Assessments consist of multiple-choice and open-ended questions that test your comprehension of passages and understanding of language structure. Some questions also require the identification of linguistic elements in the text.
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Assessments are available in reading, listening, and grammar for Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Levels 1 to 3

ODA currently offers:

Reading Assessment Reading
Listening Assessment Listening
Grammar Assessment Grammar
LanguageReading Assessment
Reading Assessment
Listening Assessment
Listening Assessment
Grammar Assessment
Grammar Assessment
Arabic-EgyptianXX
Arabic-IraqiXX
Arabic-LevantineXX
Arabic-MSA
BalochiXX
Chinese
DariX
English
Farsi
FrenchX
HebrewX
Korean (South)
Korean (South + North)X
PashtoX
PortugueseX
Russian
Serbian / CroatianX
SomaliX
Spanish
Tagalog
TurkishX
UrduX
In development now