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WIDA Alternate Screener Accommodations Checklist
This checklist can be used for tracking the accommodations a student receives on WIDA Alternate Screener.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased July 2025
What is WIDA Alternate Screener? (multiple languages)
Use this handout in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences to help explain what WIDA Alternate Screener is and the process of screening students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and identifying them as English learners. This family handout, available in multiple languages, includes a section for families to take notes and ask questions about English language services.
Resource DetailsReleased June 2025
WIDA Alternate Screener Participation Decision Tree
This guide helps IEP teams determine if a student should take the WIDA Alternate Screener assessment, or the WIDA Screener (Kindergarten, Online or Paper) assessment with accommodations.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased June 2025
WIDA Screener Interpretive Guide for Score Reports
The aim of this interpretive guide is to help educators and families better understand the scores reported for WIDA Screener Online, WIDA Screener Paper, WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA Alternate Screener.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased April 2024
WIDA All Year Long
Learn how WIDA is more than a test! Mr. Vega is a 6th grade EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher at an international school who works with colleagues and families to support multilingual learners. Follow Mr. Vega all year long, as he focuses on what his students can do, using WIDA resources to collaborate and plan effective learning activities throughout the school year.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased September 2023
Accessibility and Accommodations Manual
This accessibility manual was developed to guide the selection and administration of Test Administration Considerations, Universal Tools, and Accommodations for individual English Language Learners (ELLs) in order to produce valid assessment results.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2023
WIDA Alternate Screener Technical Brief
This report provides an overview of the design and technical properties of WIDA Alternate Screener and includes information on the purpose of the test, and the design and development of the test, along with information on item performance and test reliability from the first year of operational administration of WIDA Alternate Screener.
This is the redacted report for the 2023-2024 administration of WIDA Alternate Screener without item information.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased October 2025