AATI
National Italian Exam
National Italian Exam
The National Italian Exam is an official AATI national language contest held among middle and high school students. The NIE is not only as an assessment tool, which provides teachers and students with diagnostic feedback and positive washback to help inform high school instruction and curricula, it is also as an opportunity for visibility and for promoting Italian programs in North American schools. The AATI is committed to offering an innovative exam that is aligned with the ACTFL Performance Descriptors and the 2012 ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, for this reason AATI encourages instructors of Italian to invite their students to participate in the National Italian Exam, which could help them prepare for the official exams of Seal of Biliteracy, the SAT II and finally, will make them eligible for the Società Onoraria Italica scholarships.
In addition, the NIE provides an excellent opportunity to highlight our students success as every year over 5,000 high school students of Italian take the exam. Finally, AATI offers an extensive regional and national prize program that consists of monetary prizes, study-trips to Italy, medals and certificates to award students of all different abilities to celebrate their accomplishment.
In these pages teachers will find all the necessary information about the exam and how to register their students.
If you have questions about the exam, please contact the NIE Director, Gina Maiellaro at l.maiellaro@northeastern.edu
We wish good luck to all the students who participate in the NIE!
The National Italian Exam is an official AATI national language contest held among middle and high school students. The NIE is not only as an assessment tool, which provides teachers and students with diagnostic feedback and positive washback to help inform high school instruction and curricula, it is also as an opportunity for visibility and for promoting Italian programs in North American schools. The AATI is committed to offering an innovative exam that is aligned with the ACTFL Performance Descriptors and the 2012 ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, for this reason AATI encourages instructors of Italian to invite their students to participate in the National Italian Exam, which could help them prepare for the official exams of Seal of Biliteracy, the SAT II and finally, will make them eligible for the Società Onoraria Italica scholarships.
In addition, the NIE provides an excellent opportunity to highlight our students success as every year over 5,000 high school students of Italian take the exam. Finally, AATI offers an extensive regional and national prize program that consists of monetary prizes, study-trips to Italy, medals and certificates to award students of all different abilities to celebrate their accomplishment.
In these pages teachers will find all the necessary information about the exam and how to register their students.
If you have questions about the exam, please contact the NIE Director, Gina Maiellaro at l.maiellaro@northeastern.edu
We wish good luck to all the students who participate in the NIE!
Registration for the NIE 2020 opens on
November 16, 2019
November 16, 2019
Exam administration period
March 1, 2020 - March 31, 2020
March 1, 2020 - March 31, 2020
NIE 2020 - Teachers' Survey
We need your help! We are surveying teachers whose students have participated in the NIE in order to obtain constructive feedback for next year exam. We want to understand what is our teachers' opinion about categories
and would be extremely grateful if you could respond to a very short survey. Use the link below to participate.
We need your help! We are surveying teachers whose students have participated in the NIE in order to obtain constructive feedback for next year exam. We want to understand what is our teachers' opinion about categories
and would be extremely grateful if you could respond to a very short survey. Use the link below to participate.