CASLI Test Preparation

Gallaudet University’s Center for Continuing Education is proud to offer test prep courses for the exams provided by the Center for the Assessment of Sign Language Interpretation (CASLI), which are used to achieve certification by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).

Courses

Ethics

Knowledge

Performance

CASLI Generalist Knowledge – Ethics and Cultural Responsiveness Exam Preparation

This test prep offering prepares both CDI and NIC candidates for the NEW Ethics and Cultural Responsiveness Exam for CASLI. This is one portion of the CASLI Generalist Knowledge Exam. If candidates have already passed the previous CASLI written test, this is offered as a “gap” test that must be passed in order to be eligible to take the CASLI Generalist Performance Exam for certification.

If candidates have not already passed the written test, then the Ethics and Cultural Responsiveness Exam AND the Fundamentals of Interpreting Exam will be taken in tandem. (the Knowledge Test Prep offering is recommended as preparation for the Fundamentals of Interpreting Exam.)

Learners should already have familiarity with: RID’s Code of Professional Conduct, interpreting best practices, discussing ethical scenarios, and Demand Control-Schema. Learners will be introduced to the domains measured by this ethics test, have exposure to the exam structure, practice with multiple decision-points scenarios, and receive feedback from both the facilitator and peers.

This asynchronous offering has no required meeting times, but does have a weekly submission schedule, and learners can request virtual office hours as needed. This test prep has pass/fail grading.

CASLI Generalist Knowledge – Fundamentals of Interpreting Exam Preparation

This test prep offering will prepare potential CDI and NIC test candidates to pass the Fundamentals of Interpreting Exam for CASLI. This is only one component of the CASLI Generalist Knowledge Exam, and the Ethics test prep offering is recommended as preparation for the other portion, the Ethics and Cultural Responsiveness Exam.

This offering will cover the ten content domains under this exam and techniques for handling the type of multiple-choice test questions utilized in both ASL and English. Learners will take several practice tests to gauge their readiness for the actual examination. Students are expected to have familiarity with interpreting best practices, Demand Control-Schema, history of the interpreting field, models of interpreting, and considerations pre-acceptance, pre-assignment, during assignment and post assignment including billing and logistics. (This list is not exhaustive.)

This asynchronous offering has no required meeting times, but does have a weekly submission schedule, and learners can request virtual office hours as needed. This test prep has pass/fail grading.

CASLI Generalist Performance Exam For Hearing Interpreters Preparation (NIC)

This test prep offering will prepare CASLI test candidates to take the Generalist Performance Exam for Hearing Interpreters which would result in RID’s National Interpreter Certification (NIC) credentials. Learners will review the Job Task Analysis for hearing interpreters, and look for examples of these skills and abilities in their own work. Learners will record themselves interpreting practice performance scenarios and reflect on and analyze their work. Diversity will be represented among Deaf and hearing consumers in terms of language use, age, gender, and cultural background. Learners will also take a mock exam and reflect on the experience. Learners need to be eligible to take the Generalist Performance Exam, which would mean that either they have already passed the Fundamentals on Interpreting written test and are eligible to take the Ethical Decision Making and Cultural Responsiveness Case Studies (gap test) at the same time with their performance exam, or they have already passed both portions of the Generalist Knowledge Exam. (Knowledge and Ethics test preps are recommended for more training on both portions of the Knowledge exam.) Learners should already have a comprehensive knowledge of both ASL and English, and experience in both interpreting and transliterating, both to and from each language. Practice videos will vary from 5 to 20 minutes in order to help practice stamina in interpretation, and to be in line with current source materials from CASLI. This asynchronous offering has no required meeting times, but does have a weekly submission schedule, and learners can request virtual office hours as needed. This test prep has pass/fail grading. This offering also requires GoReact (purchased separately).