The Kindergarten placement test is meant to be administered to pre-K, K, and first semester 1st grade students. It is organized as a single, individually-administered test with a combined Speaking/Listening component. The Reading and Writing tests make up a separate test which is optional, and only for students with some literacy skills. Presumably these would be children very close to finishing Kindergarten or in the first semester of grade 1.

The K W-APT™ is written from the K-2 grade level cluster of the 2004 Edition of the WIDA ELP Standards. However, the highest levels of English language proficiency for students in this grade range are not appropriate for beginning Kindergarteners while they are still developing early literacy skills, so the Kindergarten test is "simplified" from the grades 1-2 test. It is therefore not able to assign scores across the full range of WIDA ELP levels 1-6. Instead, scores for Speaking and Listening are marked as showing low, mid, high, or exceptional proficiency. Scoring details can be found in the W-APT™ Test Administration Manual and on the scoring sheets.

The WIDA MODEL™ for Kindergarten assessment is an optional replacement to the Kindergarten W-APT™ and, as it is written from the PreK-K grade level cluster of the 2007 Edition of the WIDA ELP Standards, it yields a score between 1 and 6 on the WIDA ELP scale. To learn more about this test kit, please visit the MODEL™ page under "Assessment Tools."

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