ACCESS for ELLs® Score Reports
ACCESS for ELLs® Interpretive Guide for Score Reports 2008 (PDF): The Interpretive Guide describes the types of scores generated from ACCESS for ELLs® and provides tables for each grade with the new series of grade specific cut scores for 2007. Part 2 describes each score report for ACCESS for ELLs® and offers information on the meaning and the use of the data in the reports. Part 3 presents an analysis and discussion of three example score reports and gives information regarding how to compare 2005 and 2006 grade cluster proficiency level scores with this year’s grade specific scores.
Translations of Parent/Guardian Report: Translations are currently available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian-Croatian (Roman alphabet), Creole, French, Gujarati, Hmong, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic alphabet), Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
Sample Letters to Parents/Guardians to Accompany Score Reports: Courtesy of school districts in Wisconsin, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, we offer sample letters to parents intended to introduce the ACCESS for ELLs® score report. You are free to download, edit, and use these letters for your own purposes if appropriate. If you translate these or other similar letters, other Consortium members could probably benefit from your work. Translations can be sent to info@wida.us.
Parent Sample Letter A: English, Hmong, Spanish, Japanese
Parent Sample Letter B: English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
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