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Using ACCESS for ELLs to Promote Beneficial Outcomes for English Learners Video
This video provides a breakdown of the role school/district-level educators, state-level administrators and WIDA play in using or developing ACCESS test scores, interpreting scores and making decisions based on scores to best serve English learners. Share this video with colleagues so that everyone who supports English learners understands what it takes to get positive and intended outcomes for their students.
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Using Data and Research to Inform Practical Issues in EL Proficiency and Growth
This webinar examines ways in which large-scale assessment data can be used to extract important, practical and useful insights on average patterns and high-level trends in English learners’ education and academic outcomes.
Resource DetailsUsing Embedded Universal Tools to Support Students' Test-taking Experience
This WIDA Focus Bulletin explores educators’ and students’ perceptions of the accessibility tools available to all students when taking an online WIDA assessment. The bulletin emphasizes the ways in which the universal tools can support the test-taking experience for multilingual learners.
Published October 2023
Authors: Jason A. Kemp, Ahyoung Alicia Kim
Using WIDA MODEL in International Contexts: Findings from the 2018 Educator Survey
This working paper presents findings from a survey conducted in 2018 to understand how schools in the WIDA International School Consortium use MODEL.
Published 2019
Resource Details View Download NowUsing WIDA MODEL in International Contexts: Findings from the 2019 Educator Interviews
This working paper presents findings from a series of educator interviews conducted to understand how schools in the WIDA International School Consortium use MODEL.
Resource Details View Download NowUsing WIDA MODEL to support instructional planning for multilingual learners
In this Focus Bulletin, we aim to help readers better understand how WIDA MODEL test scores may be used to support instructional planning decisions for multilingual learners and their teachers. We describe the rich resources available from WIDA to help educators understand what the test scores mean. We also explain how these resources may be used, along with MODEL test scores to help inform where multilingual learners have opportunities to further develop their English language skills.
Published February 2022
Authors: Mark Chapman, Heather Elliott, Jennifer Feldmann
Validating a new writing scoring scale using multi-faceted Rasch analyses
This Technical Report describes a validation study of the newly developed WIDA ACCESS writing scoring scale by examining its feasibility in differentiating student ability and practical scoring use. TR-2024-1.
Published: April 2024
Author: Ping-Lin Chuang
Additional authors: Mark Chapman, Kyoungwon Bishop, Ahyoung Alicia Kim
What can collaboration look like with the WIDA ELD Standards Framework?
Collaboration is one of the four Big Ideas of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. This two-page "comic" strip shows the story of how a science teacher and an ESL teacher work together on their multilingual learners' language development and ways of meaningfully engaging with the content of a science unit. This step-by-step example can be used in tandem with Section 4 of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition, that has a more detailed look at the collaborative planning process.
Resource Details View Download NowWhat Is ACCESS for ELLs? (multiple languages)
Send this handout, available in multiple languages, home with students as an introduction to ACCESS when testing is scheduled or as a reminder before scores are shared. This flyer explains what ACCESS is and why student take this kind of assessment. Use this resource to help parents understand annual language proficiency testing.
Resource DetailsWhat Is Language Testing? (multiple languages)
Use this flyer in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences as you explain the process of screening students and identifying them as ELLs. This flyer explains language testing in general terms. Also use this flyer, available in multiple languages, to help parents understand both screener testing and annual language proficiency testing.
Resource DetailsWhat Is WIDA Alternate ACCESS? (multiple languages)
This handout, available in multiple languages, is a resource that educators can send home with students to give families an introduction to WIDA Alternate ACCESS. The handout explains what WIDA Alternate ACCESS is and why students take this kind of assessment.
Resource DetailsWIDA Accessibility and Accommodations Framework
The WIDA Accessibility and Accommodations Framework consists of the application of effective linguistic scaffolding and Universal Design principles to the development of test items, use of administrative considerations and purposeful design and delivery of universal tools and accommodations.
Resource Details View Download NowWIDA 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 NowWIDA Alternate ACCESS Interpretive Guide for Score Reports
This guide provides a comprehensive explanation of the types of scores reported by Alternate ACCESS for students in grades K-12.
Resource Details View Download NowWIDA Alternate ACCESS: Understanding Your Child's Scores (multiple languages)
Send this flyer home with students along with the Alternate ACCESS Individual Student Report for Families. This flyer explains each piece of score information included in the report for families. Use this guide, available in multiple languages, to help parents/guardians understand what scores mean and how they are used.
Resource DetailsWIDA Digital Wallpapers
Download "WIDA Wallpaper" to brighten your day! Six fun graphic designs are available for your desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Share them with fellow educators and students to enjoy as they engage in virtual teaching and learning.
Resource DetailsWIDA Early Language Development Standards
The WIDA Early Language Development Standards, available for English and Spanish language development, are designed for use with children ages 2.5–5.5 years old and correspond to five domains of children’s development and learning: approaches to learning, language and communication development, cognition and general knowledge, physical well-being and motor development, and social and emotional development.
Resource Details View Download NowWIDA Early Years Guiding Principles of Language Development
The WIDA Early Years Guiding Principles of Language Development provide practitioners with a broad perspective on key concepts related to the language development of young children learning multiple languages. To further clarify the guiding principles, these research highlights provide practitioners with research-based descriptions and examples of effective practices.
Resource Details View Download NowWIDA ELD Standards Framework Implementation: What, When and How?
This webinar offers guidance on using the implementation guide for the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition.
Resource DetailsWIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Digital Explorer
This website serves as a digital database of the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework. It categorizes Language Expectations in two ways: by ELD standard statement and grade-level cluster, and by Key Language Use and communication mode. Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) can be explored by grade-level cluster and communication mode.
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