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English Language Proficiency Assessment

Heather Villalobos Pavia
English Language Proficiency Assessment Consultant
Assessment Unit
(303) 866-6118
villalobos-pavia_h@cde.state.co.us

 

Important Announcements

 School districts expect their student reports to arrive the week of April 21, 2013.

English Language Proficiency Assessments

Colorado has become a full member of the WIDA Consortium.

The screener to assist in the identification of students that qualify for English Language Acquisition (ELA) programming will be the W-APT™ which stands for the WIDA-ACCESS Placement Test.

The annual test that measures a student’s progress in acquiring academic English is ACCESS for ELLs®. This assessment is administered to all students identified as an English Learners (NEP and LEP) in grades K-12.

There is an alternate assessment available for students who meet qualifications for instruction using alternate standards in grades 1 - 12.

For more information on WIDA please visit www.wida.us

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