The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment, or WIDA, consortium today released sample questions for the nation’s most popular English-language-proficiency test, ACCESS for ELLs. Virtually all ...
The WIDA ACCESS language proficiency test is used across close to 40 states as part of the federal requirement to determine whether English learners continue to need language-development services. The ...
Four-year-olds are crying, putting their heads on their desks or simply refusing to answer the questions during an English proficiency test they’re required to take in transitional kindergarten. The ...
The results of a standardized test have set off shockwaves for third graders and their parents over the last week in Tennessee. Statewide, 60% of third graders fell short of a reading proficiency ...
More Indiana third-graders are passing the state’s reading proficiency test, but students who live in poverty or don’t speak English as their native language are failing the test at a higher rate than ...
Just 1.2% of public school third graders were held back after a controversial reading and retention law took effect in Tennessee this year. In May, the Tennessee Department of Education reported that ...
Sixteen percent of Indiana third graders failed to pass a high-stakes reading proficiency test that could determine whether they can move on to the fourth grade. Indiana Superintendent of Public ...