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OWLS
Author: Elizabeth Carrow-WoolfolkPublication Date: 1995Ages: 3 to 21 years
ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE SCALES
Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression
The OWLS Measures
Lexical
Syntactic
Syntactic construction
Supralinguistic
The Oral Expression also includes
Pragmatic Language
What is the purpose of using OWLS?
Learning disabilitiesLanguage disordersOther related difficulties
Identification
Intervention
Progress Monitoring
Research
Gathering dataComparative studies
Addressing potential academic difficulties
Record of growth
The Listening Comprehension Scale
111 items5 to 15 minutes
A spoken response is not required.
1 2
3 4
First error
Ceiling Item
Basal Item
Start Item
Basal
Ceiling
Items 1-51SUBTOTAL 41 (Maximum 51 points)
Scoring Sample
The Oral Expression Scale
96 items10 to 15 minutes
Here is Mary (point). Mary is a girl.Here is John (point). John is a _______ BOY
A spoken response is required for every item. Gestures are not acceptable responses
Sample – Oral Expression Scale Scoring (Age: 12 to 13 yrs old )In this picture, Aunt Lucy asks Mary what time her friend’s party begins . Mary calls her friend to find outWhat should Mary ask?
What time is your party? When will the party begin? What time does your party starts? What time is it? What time are you coming over? (a specific time)Response:
1 0
CORRECT RESPONSE
What time is your party? When will the party begin? What time does your party starts? What time is it? What time are you coming over? (a specific time)Response:
1 0
INCORRECT RESPONSE
Where do you live?
(Age: 12 to 13 yrs old )In this picture, Aunt Lucy asks Mary what time her friend’s party begins . Mary calls her friend to find outWhat should Mary ask?
Norming Sample – Geographic Area
19
16
1711
12
137 482 5
3
10
21
1514
18
3130
6955
67
62656461
638279
8157
5953
51
52
54
5870
7677
747560
244626
232725
222829
4241
37
433840
3645 44
39
33
343532
48
5049
47
97
9899
103113
91929390
9596
94
101104
56
66
110
108109
107
848587
86
68
73
89
88
NORTH
CENTRAL
SOUTH
WEST
NORTHEAST
Geographic region
South 36.0%
North Central 25.1%
West 20.2%
Northeast 18.7%
South
WestNorth East
NorthCentral
RaceWhite 70.9%
Black 14.9%
Hispanic 10.1%
Other 4.1%
Maternal Education Level
High School Graduate 39.3%
1 to 3 Yrs of College or Technical School 25.2%
4 or More Yrs of College 19.7%
Grade 11 or less 15.8%Mother's education level was used to indicate socioeconomic status.
Norming Sample
BlackOther
White
Hispanic
Grade 11 or less
High School1-3 yrs college or Tech school
4 or more yrscollege
GenderFemales 50.7%
Males 49.3%;
FemalesMales
Reliability ResultsSplit half method
Listening Comprehension--0.84Oral Expression—0.87Oral Composite—0.91
Test - RetestListening Comprehension: 0.73 to 0.80Oral Expression: 0.77 to 0.86Oral Composite: 0.81 to 0.89
InterraterOral Expression Scale: mean of four age groups: 0.95
Correlations
Criterion-Related Validity
TACL-R Total Score
0.78 (Oral Comp)
CELF-R Total Language
0.91 (Oral Comp)
0.88 (Language Comp)
PPVT-R:
0.75 (Oral Comp)
0.72 (Language Comp)
Correlations with measures of Cognitive Ability
VERBAL ABILITY
K-ABC Achievement score0.82 (Oral Comp)
WISC-III Verbal IQ0.74 (Oral Comp)0.77 (Language Comp)
K-BIT Vocabulary subtest0.76 (Oral & Language Comp)
NONVERBAL ABILITY
K-ABC Nonverbal score0.70 (Oral Comp)
WISC-III Performance IQ0.69 (Oral Comp)0.70 (Language Comp)
K-BIT Matrices subtest0.65 (Oral Comp)0.59 (Language Comp)
Validity – General Scores
GLOBAL SCORESK-ABC Mental Processing composite
0.76 (Oral Comp)
WISC-III Full Scale IQ0.73 (Oral Comp)0.76 (Language Comp)
K-BIT Composite0.75 (Oral Comp)0.72 (Language Comp)
Correlations with measures of Academic Achievement
K-TEA ComprehensiveReading Composite
0.60 (Oral Comp)0.74 (Language Comp)
Mathematics Composite 0.43 (Oral Comp)0.63 (Language Comp)
Battery Composite0.47 (Oral Comp)0.66 (Language Comp)
WRMT-RWord ID
0.75 (Oral Comp)0.76 (Language Comp)
Word Attack0.67 (Oral Comp)0.70 (Language Comp)
Word Comprehension 0.88 (Oral Comp)0.88 (Language Comp)
Passage Comprehension0.70 (Oral Comp)0.73 (Language Comp)
Total Reading0.82 (Oral Comp)0.83 (Language Comp)
PIAT-RGeneral Information
0.75 (Oral Comp)0.69 (Language Comp)
Total Reading0.80 (Oral Comp)0.81 (Language Comp)
Mathematics0.82 (Oral Comp)0.82 (Language Comp)
Total Test0.84 (Oral Comp)0.86 (Language Comp)
Observations
EDP626
Administration is easy Neither scale requires reading by examinee Scoring is fast and reliable Based on its reliability, OWLS should only be
used as a whole to help make classroom decisions, since oral composites has reliability of 0.90 or higher.
Test re-test showed low reliability, perhaps because the second time the test was given was usually eight weeks after the first administration (instead of two weeks).
Little information was provided related to predictive validity.
Task-demands on the test may not be ‘typical” of those found in the classroom setting.
Second Edition is available (OWLS-II)
Reliability ResultsSplit half method
Listening Comprehension--0.84Oral Expression—0.87Oral Composite—0.91
Test - RetestListening Comprehension: 0.73 to 0.80Oral Expression: 0.77 to 0.86Oral Composite: 0.81 to 0.89
InterraterOral Expression Scale: mean of four age groups: 0.95