DATE:
Thursday, June 20, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
WIDA Data Dashboards Now Available on Principal Tableau Viewer Accounts
The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department is pleased to announce that a series of data dashboards containing WIDA Access 2.0 achievement data from the last three school years have been pushed out to principal Tableau Viewer Accounts.
There are four subtests that students take as part of the WIDA: Listening, reading, speaking and writing. Students earn a Language Proficiency Level (LPL) of 1-6, with LPLs of 5 or 6 being the ultimate goal:
- 1 = Entering
- 2 = Emerging
- 3 = Developing
- 4 = Expanding
- 5 = Bridging
- 6 = Reaching
Below is a summary of what the dashboards contain at both the district level and individual school level:
- WIDA Summary Indicators, 2017-2019: WIDA LPLs are reported by summary indicator: Comprehension (made up scores from the reading and listening subtests), Literacy (made up of scores from the reading and writing subtests), Oral (made up of the listening and speaking subtests), and Overall Composite (made up of the listening, reading, speaking and writing subtests).
- WIDA Subtests, 2017-2019: LPLs are reported in each of the four subtests.
- Number of Students Who WIDA Tested, 2017-2019: This dashboard is a breakdown of the number of students who took the WIDA test for each school year.
- 2019 WIDA Proficiency by Student and Grade: This is a crosstabulation of each student enrolled in your school during the 2018-19 school year who took the 2019 WIDA test. The table contains each student’s overall composite score, summary indicator score, and subtest score. This list will be helpful in targeting students for extra time and support.
In the near future, we will push out an additional dashboard that will contain the years of service each EL student has received and whether or not they met their growth target for the School Accountability Report Card.
Please contact Ben Jameson if you have any questions about these data or about how to use Tableau. If you have not set up your Tableau Viewer account, please contact Ben Jameson for instructions on how to do so (or see the step-by-step instructions attached with this memo). Please see the attached document for instructions on how to download and print any of the dashboards in your viewer account.
Principals may share their Tableau login credentials with their assistant principals.
To log into your Tableau account, please click here: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO
