Correction: TELPA Study and TELPA Ordering Guidelines

Once again schools across the state are being asked to join the TELPA study. The TELPA is an ESL screening instrument used to determine whether or not a student who speaks or hears a language other than English at home should receive ESL (Title III) services.

Schools in the Heartland AEA area must order and pay for their own TELPA tests from Measurement Inc. (MI). Click here for the reimbursement form which should be printed, completed and sent to Kevin Fangman at Heartland AEA. This form must contain an original signature.

TELPA Ordering Guidance

TELPA materials orders may be placed at any time. When placing an order with MI, you will be required to either enter a purchase order number or indicate that no purchase order number is required. Your district will be billed directly for all TELPA materials ordered.

To access the ordering web site, navigate to the following link and enter the User ID and Password below.

https://state2.measinc.com/TELPAMaterials

Enter the User ID and Password that is specific to your district. To get or reset your district password, contact the ELDA/TELPA Help Line at ELDA @measinc.com or 1-888-612-0180.
 

The TELPA is locally administered and scored so you will have immediate results to help you place your students. Once you do this, you will need to transfer your students’ scores to a Bubble Answer Sheets (BAS) Scantron sheet. You will send these to Northwest AEA so the test results can be entered into an assessment database for evaluation. Contact Stephaney Jones-Vo at sjones-vo@aea11.k12.ia.us or Pat Latham at platham@aea11.k12.ia.us for BAS Scantron sheets, not Northwest AEA or the DE. The BAS Scantron sheets will be sent to you by Heartland van mail.

Invitation to Participate in the TELPA

Dr. Jobi Lawrence, Title lll Education Program Consultant for the Iowa Department of Education, would like to invite you to participate in a study of a placement test that assesses the ELL students entering your district. The study is to confirm the alignment of the Tennessee English Language Placement Assessment (TELPA) with the Iowa English Language Development Assessment (I-ELDA).

The results of this study will determine if the TELPA will be used to replace the LAS and the IPT, which are currently in use. If this assessment is adopted, the test will define an entry level English Proficiency when the student enters the district so we can capture the first year growth.If you would like to participate in the study please have your superintendent fill in the consent to participate form (found by clicking here) and send it back to:

Iowa Department of Education

Attn: Mary Smith

Grimes State Office Building

400 E. 14th St.

Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0146

or
By e-mail to Mary Smith

Mary.Smith@iowa.gov

If you choose to participate in this study the test materials will be of no cost to your district. Testing materials will only be of no cost to districts while the study is being conducted.To obtain TELPA BAS Scantron sheets please contact your AEA consultant with the number needed in K-2, 3-12 grade spans.

• Click here to read the directions for filling out front page of BAS Scantron
• Click here for the directions for returning TELPA BAS Scantrons to Northwest AEA (not Heartland AEA 11)