EIPA Testing Study Guide & Educational Interpreting Exam Preparation Notes
Who created EIPA - ✔✔Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska in 1991
What was EIPA designed to provide? - ✔✔Accurate and timely assessment of educational
interpreters
Assessment of content knowledge needed to work in an educational setting.
Information for school administrators, educators and parents regarding the role and function of
educational interpreters and the need for competent services
Guidance to Department at both the federal and state levels regarding issues of educating deaf
and hard of hearing students in inclusive settings.
What are the fees for the different EIPA test? - ✔✔EIPA Performance Test- $350
EIPA Written Test- $250
EIPA Prehire $115 plus $10 shipping?handling= $125
What does the EIPA evaluate? - ✔✔The ability to expressively interpret classroom content and
discourse and the ability to receptively interpret student or teen sign language. Not limited to
ASL, but SEE and CASE
What is the evaluation Process? - ✔✔2 video samples of actual classroom settings called
stimulus tape. One for interpreters receptive and one for expressive skills.
EIPA means what? - ✔✔Educational Interpreter Performance Test
EIPA Levels - ✔✔Level 1- Beginner- not recommended for classroom interpreting
Level 2- Advanced Beginner- not recommended for classroom interpreting
Who created EIPA - ✔✔Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska in 1991
What was EIPA designed to provide? - ✔✔Accurate and timely assessment of educational
interpreters
Assessment of content knowledge needed to work in an educational setting.
Information for school administrators, educators and parents regarding the role and function of
educational interpreters and the need for competent services
Guidance to Department at both the federal and state levels regarding issues of educating deaf
and hard of hearing students in inclusive settings.
What are the fees for the different EIPA test? - ✔✔EIPA Performance Test- $350
EIPA Written Test- $250
EIPA Prehire $115 plus $10 shipping?handling= $125
What does the EIPA evaluate? - ✔✔The ability to expressively interpret classroom content and
discourse and the ability to receptively interpret student or teen sign language. Not limited to
ASL, but SEE and CASE
What is the evaluation Process? - ✔✔2 video samples of actual classroom settings called
stimulus tape. One for interpreters receptive and one for expressive skills.
EIPA means what? - ✔✔Educational Interpreter Performance Test
EIPA Levels - ✔✔Level 1- Beginner- not recommended for classroom interpreting
Level 2- Advanced Beginner- not recommended for classroom interpreting
