ELP Assessment Update [January 4, 2023]
Welcome to 2023. We are about a month away from starting this year’s ELP testing, and things are looking good! Hope your year is off to a great start.
In consultation with educators and districts following the first administration of WIDA Braille ACCESS assessments in 2022, OSPI decided to contract with ELPA21 to assess language development for students needing Braille and Large Print assessments. Districts indicated in October if they would need these test versions. We will be contacting those districts directly with more information about materials delivery and testing dates. Districts should plan to test these students at the very end of the testing window in March as materials delivery will be delayed. More information to follow for districts that requested these materials.
If you have students who need a Braille supplement for the WIDA Alternate ACCESS, please contact ELPAssessments@k12.wa.us for a Braille supplement.
If the materials your district received are insufficient for your testing needs, you can order additional materials through WIDA AMS beginning on January 18. Only DACs can order additional materials, and additional materials can only be ordered using the “District-level Additional Orders Only” option under the “schools” dropdown. All additional orders must be approved by OSPI and we cannot approve orders that are made for specific schools, only those made for the “District-level Additional Orders Only” option. OSPI is requesting that districts place only one order of additional materials for the test window instead of multiple smaller orders.
The WIDA Assessment testing platform for spring 2023 opened January 4 for test session and student management. The testing window will begin January 30, but districts can begin uploading new students and managing test sessions before that date.
Students who are newly enrolling in Washington schools this spring on or before February 24 are required to take both the screener and the annual WIDA ACCESS assessment if they are eligible for ELD services. For students who are enrolling after February 24 the screener must be completed within 10 days, and the district can determine if the annual ACCESS test can be reasonably administered in the limited time available.
If test administrators have completed screener training for fall 2022 testing or ACCESS training for spring 2022 testing, then they can complete the OSPI-developed training instead of the WIDA Secure Portal training. TAs need to complete one training in its entirety. That is, TAs cannot complete the video from the OSPI training and the quiz on the secure portal or vise versa. DACs have an enrollment link to the OSPI course and can decide who is eligible for the shorter training.
For those who complete the OSPI training, a list of trained TAs will be available in WAMS and updated every few days through February. The list can be found under TA Lists on the Pre-ID tab.
We are here to support the smooth rollout of testing in your district. If there is any support we can offer, please don't hesitate to send us an email.
ELP Assessment questions: ELPAssessments@k12.wa.us or leslie.huff@k12.wa.us (no need to email both addresses)
WIDA AMS questions: wida@datarecognitioncorp.com
WIDA Secure Portal questions: help@wida.us
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