What's New

Maintenance release

App Description

Pearson’s TELL is a self-delivered online language proficiency assessment for students in grades K-12.

TELL consists of a single screener, two diagnostic, and eight progress monitoring assessments that are administered throughout the course of an academic school year.

The results from TELL provide schools and districts with a complete understanding of their students’ current language proficiency and allows them to measure their progression. This robust reporting that also helps inform instructional decisions.

With minimal set-up time, students can begin testing. During test administration, students watch video clips and interact with pictures and words on a tablet, then answer questions out loud. They listen, write, read, and speak—all with no mark-ups or grading by teachers. Short, effective testing allows users to monitor student progress on the development of core English language skills necessary for learning academic content. TELL’s unique items types allow for measuring multiple skills in a single item.

TELL’s innovative speech recognition and writing evaluation technology yields highly reliable scored but also means that results are available in minutes!

TELL scores are provided at the Overall level, for the four foundational skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking), and for the following sub-skills : pronunciation, fluency, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, reading rate, expressiveness, and pre-literacy.

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • May 21, 2015 Initial release
  • August 08, 2015 New version 2.0.0
  • August 28, 2015 New version 2.1.0
  • September 14, 2015 New version 2.2.0
  • November 06, 2015 New version 2.3.0
  • January 29, 2016 New version 2.3.1
  • August 16, 2016 New version 2.5.0
  • November 29, 2016 New version 2.5.1
  • December 18, 2016 New version 2.5.2
  • June 14, 2019 New version 2.8.0
  • August 17, 2019 New version 2.8.1
  • September 27, 2019 New version 2.9.0
  • December 03, 2019 New version 2.9.2
  • October 23, 2020 New version 2.9.3
  • December 10, 2020 New version 2.9.4
  • September 16, 2023 New version 2.10.5