The Indiana Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency (CoMP) is an award designated on a high school student’s transcript that shows that the student has attained a high level of proficiency sufficient for meaningful use in college and a career in one or more languages in addition to English.
For High School Students
High school students at any grade level may take an approved language assessment.
MCCSC Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency Flyer
Languages Available for Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency
Purpose
The Indiana Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency was created to:
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Affirm the value of diversity and honor a community's multiple cultures and languages.
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Recognize the value of world language and heritage language instruction in public schools.
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Prepare students with the skills required as a graduate of the 21st Century.
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Certify the attainment of multilingual proficiency.
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Provide post-secondary educational institutions with an additional method to recognize applicants for admission.
Eligibility Requirements
To receive the Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency, a student must do the following:
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Pass the high school graduation qualifying exam (ISTEP Grade 10 ELA)
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Earn at least six credits in a single World Language through coursework or a demonstration of proficiency
** If a student is already proficient in a world language, a score of Intermediate High on the World Language assessment can demonstrate proficiency in place of coursework. The student would then automatically receive six world language credits. Assessment can be taken at any time during a high school career.
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Pass an approved language assessment in the world language at an Intermediate-High level of proficiency.
How To Start:
High school students who wish to pursue the Certificate must submit the participation form below and meet the eligibility requirements. Once the participation form has been reviewed, we will notify the students if they are required to take one of the standardized language proficiency assessments (AP, STAMP 4S, STAMP WS, ALTA, SLPI).
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Submit the Participation Form below for each language chosen for the Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency.
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Register for an appropriate language assessment.
** The school will complete the required test registration for students who meet the financial needs criteria.
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Take the language assessment and obtain the minimum required score.
Submit Participation Form
(The testing fee will be waived for high school students participating in the STAMP language assessment during 2022-23.)
Language Assessment Information
For the school year, the following language assessment options are available. Students may pursue the Certificate of Multilingual Proficiency in more than one language.
AP
Minimum Requirements: Full Test (Score of 4 or 5)
Languages Available: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Latin, Spanish
STAMP 4S by Avant
Test Window: Open All Year
Minimum Requirements: Students meet the minimum level of Intermediate High (6) in all language domains. No averaging of scores is permitted.
Remote Testing At-Home is available, but it requires students to take all 4 domain tests in one sitting. This may take approximately 3 hours. In addition, it will cost an additional $15 registration fee.
Languages Available: Arabic, Cantonese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Yup'ik
Avant Online Registration
Avant Technology Check
Stamp 4S Test Website
Resources
STAMP WS by Avant
Test Window: Open All Year
Minimum Requirements: Students meet the minimum level of Intermediate High (6) in all language domains. No averaging of scores is permitted.
Remote Testing At-Home is available, but it requires students to take all 4 domain tests in one sitting. This may take approximately 3 hours. In addition, it will cost an additional $10 registration fee.
Languages Available: Amharic, Armenian, Cabo Verdean, Chin, Chuukese, Czech, Filipino (Tagalog), Haitian-Creole, Hawaiian ('Ōlelo Hawai'i), Hmong, Ilocano, Kannada, Marathi, Marshallese, Samoan, Somali Maay Maay, Somali, Swahili*, Maxaa, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian (coming soon!), Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba*, Yup'ik, Zomi
*Reading, Writing, and Speaking
Avant Online Registration
Avant Technology Check
Stamp WS Test Website
Resources
ALTA
Test Window: Open All Year
Minimum Requirements: Speaking, Listening, and Writing (ILR Scale – 1+)
Languages Available: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Baluchi (Western), Bambara, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese (Traditional), Chuukese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Ewe, Fante (Akan), Finnish, French, French (Canadian), Fulfulde (Fulani), Ga, German, Greek (Modern), Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Ibo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Kazakh, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmandji), Kurdish (Sorani), Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin (Simplified), Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi (Eastern), Punjabi (Western), Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese (Traditional), Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi (Akan), Ukranian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba
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SLPI
Test Window: Open All Year
Minimum Requirements: Full Interview (Intermediate Plus/Advanced)
Languages Available: American Sign Language
*For questions, please contact your school counselor.
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