WIDA Placement Testing Information:

 

WIDA W-APT

The W-APT aligned to the WIDA ELP Standards and ACCESS for ELLs is designed to provide baseline information that will measure and determine a student's English Language proficiency. All scoring of the W-APT is completed on site by the test administer. 

 

Main Purposes

1- To identify students who may be candidates for English as a Second Language (ESL) and/or bilingual services not offered at the Elementary Level for Middle Township Public Schools.

 

2- To determine the academic English language proficiency level of students new to a school or to the U.S. school system in order to determine appropriate levels and amounts of instructional services. 

 

WIDA Screener 

The WIDA Screener is an English language proficiency assessment given to incoming students in Grades 1–12 to assist educators with the identification of students as English language learners (ELL’s). The purpose of this assessment is to help educators make decisions about whether a student is a candidate for English language support services. 

 

As a flexible, on-demand language proficiency assessment, WIDA Screener can be administered at any time during the school year, depending on the needs of the district, school, teacher, or student. 

 

The WIDA Screener is available as either a paper-based or on-line assessment. Due to COVID Restrictions, the Screener for now is only available on-line for students in grades 1-12! Both WIDA Screener Paper and WIDA Screener On-line assess the four language domains of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.

  

Purpose and Use 

The purpose of the screening tests was designed to be used as:

•  One of several criteria to determine eligibility for language support services
•  An indicator of a student's language proficiency 
•  An aid to determining appropriate levels and amounts of instructional services
•  A guide for tier placement on the ACCESS for ELL’s annual assessment

 

WIDA MODEL 

The WIDA MODEL (Measure of Developing English Language) is a series of English language proficiency assessments for Kindergarten through Grade 12. MODEL can be used by educators as an identification/placement assessment for newly enrolled ELLs and/or as an interim progress monitoring assessment for possible exit with multiple measures. 

   

Unlike ACCESS for ELLs and the W-APT, MODEL is available for use in schools around the world.

   

Features 

 MODEL test items are written from the model performance indicators of WIDA's five English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards:  

• Social & Instructional Language
• Language of Language Arts
• Language of Mathematics
• Language of Science
• Language of Social Studies 

   

Test forms are divided into six grade level clusters:   

• Kindergarten
• Grades 1
• Grades 2-3
• Grades 4–5
• Grades 6–8
• Grades 9–12 

  

Each form of the test assesses the four language domains of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. 
MODEL is an adaptive test allowing flexible placement within sections of the test based on student performance. (For additional information please visit www.WIDA.us) 

 

 

ACCESS Test

 

ACCESS 2.0 is the next generation English Language Proficiency assessment system. The test will assess the proficiency of English for your child, this test is used for placement and/or exiting along with several other criteria. 

 

For additional information about ACCESS, please visit the ACCESS 2.0 link on the side of the page.