Assessment
WIDA offers or is developing the following assessments and related resources:
- ACCESS for ELLs: The WIDA Consortium's secure, No Child Left Behind-compliant assessment of English language proficiency, now administered to over 900,000 students annually.
- Alternate ACCESS for ELLs: An equitable English language proficiency assessment for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Scheduled for release in March 2012.
- W-APT: WIDA's original placement test used to identify and place students in program support. Available as a free download for Consortium members or as a package of master files for non-Consortium members.
- WIDA MODEL: A series of box kit assessments of English language proficiency that can be used as an interim benchmark assessment once or twice during the school year to monitor growth. Grades 1-12 test kits also contain a screener form of the test for support in program placement decisions. Available for purchase by any school worldwide.
- Comparing WIDA Assessments: Offers at-a-glance comparisons of the WIDA MODEL, ACCESS for ELLs, and the W-APT.
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FLARE Grant: Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop and validate a formative assessment system for English language learners (ELLs) at the secondary level. Quality, ongoing feedback from these assessments will help teachers and students target learning objectives and thus accelerate student's progress toward the goals of language proficiency and post-secondary academic success.
- ONPAR Grant: An alternative assessment of academic content knowledge in mathematics and science for beginning ELLs. ONPAR is a computer-based assessment that replaces most of the language of a traditional test with dynamic graphic and provides unique response mechanisms.