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Georgia

On this page you will find:

Contacts

Organization

Name

Email

Phone

External Links

State Education Agency (GA Dept. of Education)

Carol Johnson,
Title III and ESOL
(404) 463-1858

GA Department of Education; GA TESOL

Deborah Houston,
Assessment Administration Division

DHouston

@doe.k12.ga.us

(404) 657-0251

WIDA Consortium

WIDA Help

help@wida.us

Toll Free 1-866-276-7735

www.wida.us

MetriTech

MetriTech

wida@metritech.com

1-800-747-4868
(ask for WIDA Support)

www.metritech.com

 

Assessment Materials & Training

Question

Information

Contact

How do I gain access to view and/or download W-APT screener materials?

Your W-APT Username and Password are required

Your ESOL Coordinator

How do I set up my account for the ACCESS for ELLs® Test Administrator Training Course?

Your system test coordinator will register you for an account.  Afterwards, you should receive an enrollment email with your username and password.  If you don't see this message, please check your spam and bulk mail folders.

Your System Test Coordinator

 

Am I required to take the training quizzes to become approved to administer the ACCESS test?

Yes

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Do I need to retake the training quizzes if I passed them last year?

 Yes

Login

Do I need to provide proof of a passing quiz grade (80%) from previous years?

No 

System Test Coordinators maintain a file of passing quiz scores

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ACCESS for ELLs® Administration
Important Dates for Georgia

Task

Start Date

End Date

Test Ordering

 

Systems order online through MetriTech’s secure website.

10/18/10
11/29/10

Pre-ID Ordering

 

Systems submit student demographic data to MetriTech.

10/18/10
12/10/10
Pre-Assessment Training
11/16/10
11/19/10

Systems Receive Test Materials

1/10/11
1/14/11

Test Window

1/24/11

3/4/11

Systems Ship Completed Material to MetriTech

3/7/11
3/10/11

MetriTech Ships Reports to Systems*

5/2/11
5/6/11
Correction Window
5/9/11
5/27/11
Post-Assessment Training
5/11/11
5/12/11

* To ensure that reports are shipped on time, all testing materials for the State of Georgia must be received at MetriTech by March 14, 2011.

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Miscellaneous Information

The WIDA Training Toolkit CD-ROM contains several Power Point presentations and other documents useful for system test coordinators or others who are leading training sessions about WIDA. The 2008-09 Toolkit is currently posted in the secure online course section of WIDA's website, and changes for 2009-10 will be minimal. All 2009-10 updates to the Toolkit will be posted in November 2009.