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Types of Score Reports

All Alternate ACCESS score reports provide score information for the same eight categories: four domains and four composite areas (Oral Language, Literacy, Comprehension, Overall). Composite scores are created from two or more domain scores.

Individual Student Report (ISR)

The ISR shows all the scores for an individual student. It provides brief descriptions of each proficiency level with a lot of visual support. Translated copies can be sent home with students and/or discussed at conferences with parents/guardians.
Sample Reports Sample Alternate ACCESS ISR

Student Roster Report (SRR)

The SRR contains information about a group of students within a single school and grade. It does not have visual supports or descriptors of each level but provides a concise and holistic way to view the results for a group of students.

Look for patterns in student performance:

Class placement

Forming work groups in a class

Identifying students who would benefit from different or additional support

Sample Report Sample Alternate ACCESS Student Roster Report

Frequency Reports

WIDA provides three frequency reports: school, district and state. They show the number and percentage of tested students (per grade) who scored at each proficiency level. Frequency reports do not show the performance of individual students, so they are best for providing a global overview of a larger group's performance. Because the number of students taking Alternate ACCESS tends to be relatively small, take care when interpreting frequency reports.

Use to gain a sense of the school, district, or state-wide effort towards educating ELLs

Use when planning, developing, or restructuring language services for ELLs

Be careful when generalizing about the meaning behind differing scores, especially with a small number of students

Sample Reports Sample Alternate ACCESS School Frequency Report
Sample Alternate ACCESS District Frequency Report
Sample Alternate ACCESS State Frequency Report

Types of Scores

Raw Scores are the actual number of items or tasks the student responded to correctly. This number is the starting point, but not useful to understand student performance, because it does not take item difficulty into account. On Alternate ACCESS, raw scores are provided for the Listening and Reading domains only.

Scale Scores take item difficulty into account, so they can be used to examine groups of students, or student performances over time.

Proficiency Level Scores provide an interpretation of scale scores. Proficiency levels on Alternate ACCESS range from A1-P3, and are unique from other ACCESS assessments. A student who scores a P1 on the Alternate ACCESS is not necessarily at the entering level on the ACCESS for ELLs Online and Paper assessments.

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Resources to help educators understand student scores WIDA provides sample score reports, guides for understanding them, and rubrics to connect results with instructional and IEP plans, as well as other resources to engage with families about what it all means.