1. The name of the assessment was originally an acronym for the states that were originally included in the assessment, which were “Wisconsin (WI), Delaware(D), and Arkansas(A)”, but Arkansas “dropped out”, so it later became the “World-class Instructional Design and Assessment”. Now it is just known by “WIDA” (Mission & the WIDA Story). The WIDA is only given in English, I could not find any information about the assessment being done in any other language, which I believe is because the assessment is testing English proficiency. The “Alternate ACCESS for ELLs is an assessment of English language proficiency for English language learners who have significant cognitive disabilities” (Alternate ACCESS for ELLs). For the assessment “WIDA Consortium”
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On the WIDA store, the starter pack consists of a book titled “ ELP Standards and Resource Guide, 2007 Edition” This is a book that lists the standards and other important materials needed for the WIDA assessment. The starter pack also includes the 2012 Amplification of the ELD Standards “It includes new specific examples as well as connections to the Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards” (Amplification of..). The starter pack also includes the “ELL CAN DO Descriptors Booklets Set of 5 (PreK-12)”. These are booklets that include important information about the assessments, they are descriptors and describe the assessments. This booklet is for teachers and administrators and helps teach “first steps of learning to differentiate instruction for English language learners” (WIDA Can Do.). The starter pack also contains an ELD Standards Poster: this a poster with “student-friendly statements connecting the standards to school and career success”(WIDA ELD Standard poster). It also contains an Essential Actions Handbook, which shows examples of “the use of the WIDA …show more content…
The last item it includes is a WIDA Bag, this is a bag that comes with the starter kit and it is meant to hold the contents of the starter pack. This assessment is like any other typical standardized test, “As this language proficiency test is standards-referenced, any comparison should be made between the student in relation to the criteria or standards” (Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System). There are four sections of the assessment and “each section of the test is estimated to take approximately 20 minutes” (Alternate ACCESS for ELLs). With this test though they recommend that the
On the WIDA store, the starter pack consists of a book titled “ ELP Standards and Resource Guide, 2007 Edition” This is a book that lists the standards and other important materials needed for the WIDA assessment. The starter pack also includes the 2012 Amplification of the ELD Standards “It includes new specific examples as well as connections to the Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards” (Amplification of..). The starter pack also includes the “ELL CAN DO Descriptors Booklets Set of 5 (PreK-12)”. These are booklets that include important information about the assessments, they are descriptors and describe the assessments. This booklet is for teachers and administrators and helps teach “first steps of learning to differentiate instruction for English language learners” (WIDA Can Do.). The starter pack also contains an ELD Standards Poster: this a poster with “student-friendly statements connecting the standards to school and career success”(WIDA ELD Standard poster). It also contains an Essential Actions Handbook, which shows examples of “the use of the WIDA …show more content…
The last item it includes is a WIDA Bag, this is a bag that comes with the starter kit and it is meant to hold the contents of the starter pack. This assessment is like any other typical standardized test, “As this language proficiency test is standards-referenced, any comparison should be made between the student in relation to the criteria or standards” (Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System). There are four sections of the assessment and “each section of the test is estimated to take approximately 20 minutes” (Alternate ACCESS for ELLs). With this test though they recommend that the