Testing
This test is used in NJ to screen potential English learners.
What is the WIDA Screener?
In NJ, parent notification of a child’s ELL program placement must be provided within this many days of enrollment.
What is 30 days?
Adjusting assignments and assessments so MLs can access content is called this.
What is differentiation or scaffolding?
True or False: Parents can decline bilingual/ESL services for their children.
What is true?
Misinterpreting silence, limited eye contact, or nonverbal communication could be due to differences in this.
What are cultural norms?
This annual test measures ML progress in English proficiency.
What is ACCESS?
This survey must be given to all students when they register in the school district in order to determine if screening is needed for ESL services.
What is the Home Language Survey?
An approach to teaching content to MLs by making the curriculum comprehensible while simultaneously promoting their English language development.
What is Sheltered English Instruction?
ML students cannot be retained solely because of this factor.
What is English Language Proficiency?
These specifically outline the type of language that students will need to learn and use in order to accomplish the goals of the lesson.
What are language objectives?
This is the cut score on ACCESS for students to be eligible for exiting ESL services.
What is 4.5?
These are provided to families to explain ML placement, ESL services, and parental rights in their native language.
What are notification letters?
The minimum duration that a district in NJ is required to monitor exited MLs' progress to ensure they have not been exited prematurely.
What is 2 years?
A school cannot ask a student or their family about this, nor can they deny enrollment based on it.
What is immigration status?
A set of standards developed to guide instruction for MLs in grades K-12. They focus on developing academic language proficiency in various content areas, ensuring that MLs have the linguistic tools to succeed in school.
What are the WIDA Standards?
In addition to the cut score on ACCESS, this is the other requirement when determining if a student is ready to exit ESL services.
What is the Classroom Language Observation Form?
True or false - Students at the preschool level are not identified as MLs and do not receive ESL services.
What is false?
This instructional approach leverages students’ native languages to support content understanding and language development.
What is bilingual education?
In August 2025, the U.S. Department of Education rescinded a letter that provided guidance on the rights of English learners.
What is a "Dear Colleague" letter?
Provides funding to school districts to help English Learners (MLs) and immigrant students gain English proficiency and academic success.
What is the Title III Part A Program (under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
These are the four language domains that are tested on the ACCESS test.
What are reading, writing, speaking, and listening?
True or false - During the first three years of a pupil's participation in a language instruction educational program (LIEP), the parent or guardian may only remove a pupil at the end of the school year.
What is true?
In NJ, this number of MLs in a single language group triggers the requirement to offer a full-time bilingual education program.
What is 20?
While the federal guidance in the DCL was recently rescinded, New Jersey's policies regarding multilingual learners are governed by these.
What are state law and the NJDOE?
What are high-intensity ESL, sheltered instruction, and part-time bilingual program?