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ACCESS for ELLs: Understanding Your Child's Scores (multiple languages)
Send this flyer home with students along with the ACCESS for ELLs Individual Student Report. This flyer explains each piece of score information included in the report. Use this guide, available in several languages, to help parents understand what scores mean and how they are used.
Resource DetailsReleased July 2020
Choosing an Interim Assessment: Guidelines for Stakeholders
This document describes WIDA's viewpoint of the criteria for an assessment to be used as a valid interim English language proficiency assessment in support of the annual administration of WIDA ACCESS.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased November 2018
Getting Students Ready for ACCESS for ELLs Paper
General advice to teachers who want to help prepare their students to take ACCESS for ELLs Paper.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased November 2016
Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness Using ACCESS for ELLs
Regardless of the growth model, aggregate test-score-based models of student growth require large and longitudinally connected samples of student data. When sample sizes are small it becomes impossible to reliably estimate and disentangle district, school and teacher effects from student growth data.
Published June 2015
Author: Narek Sahakyan
Released June 2015
Examining District-Level Growth Using ACCESS for ELLs
This research report provides a description of a study examining school districts in the WIDA Consortium whose English language learners (ELLs) exhibit consistently high growth on the ACCESS for ELLs (ACCESS) assessment.
Published August 2014
Authors: Narek Sahakyan, H. Gary Cook
Released August 2014