English Language Proficiency Assessment Solution

Vendor needs to provide a web-based English Language Proficiency Assessment Solution for Multilingual Learners
- Solution that supports educators in identifying student strengths and areas of need; monitoring English language development and growth; informing instruction and intervention; supporting benchmarking and progress monitoring; and making student-level assessment information available within the Ellevation Platform for use in the District’s multilingual learner program-management processes.
- Solution shall:
1. Provide a web-based English language proficiency and/or language-development formative and benchmark assessment appropriate for multilingual learners;
2. Support assessment in Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing;
3. Support students in grades K–12 across a range of English proficiency levels, including Newcomers and beginning English learners;
4. Align with recognized English language development or English language proficiency standards or frameworks and provide information describing the relationship of the proposed assessment to the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, proficiency levels, and/or WIDA assessment scores, as applicable;
5. Provide valid and reliable results appropriate for the intended uses of the Solution;
6. Provide assessment results that are developed and validated using appropriate practices related to fairness, bias, accessibility, and appropriate score use for multilingual learner populations;
7. Support measurement of student English language proficiency and/or growth over time;
8. Provide appropriate accommodations and accessibility supports; and
9. Minimize unnecessary loss of instructional time through efficient assessment administration
- Solution shall provide:
1. Assessment administration appropriate for K–12 school environments;
2. Secure student access and appropriate test-administration controls;
3. Timely scoring and availability of assessment results;
4. Student-level and aggregate reporting appropriate for teachers, multilingual learner specialists, school administrators, and District personnel;
5. Overall and domain-level results, as supported by the assessment design;
6. Growth and/or progress information over time, where applicable;
7. Teacher-facing reporting and tools that allow educators to readily interpret assessment results and use the information to support instructional planning, differentiation, intervention, student grouping, goal setting, and targeted language support; and
8. Data export in commonly used electronic formats.