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WIDA Speaking Rubric Grades 1-12
Use the WIDA Speaking Rubric to understand the scores students earn on ACCESS for ELLs (Online and Paper), analyze student performance in the classroom, and plan ways to scaffold language learning.
Note: Do not use this rubric to score WIDA assessments. Find relevant scoring tools in the appropriate WIDA assessment training course.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased January 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 ACCESS for ELLs.
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