Take Note of These Important Updates to English Learner Assessments

For the 2017-18 school year, schools should continue to make placement decisions using the TELPA. There will be a switch to the ELPA21 screener for the 2018-19 school year, beginning with screening for incoming kindergarten students in May. Online training to administer the ELPA21 screener will be available next spring.

For the 2017-18 school year, schools should continue reporting TELPA scores for their students to the Iowa Department of Education. Please use this new, updated Score Reporting spreadsheet and discard any earlier versions you may have. The DE has been working with the EdInsight team to get screening scores added to the data warehouse, but the first step is to ensure that data is complete and accurate. Schools no longer need to include screening results in the SRI data elements, so the spreadsheet is the only way the Department can document compliance with this expectation from the Title III corrective action plan.

Current information on EL assessments can also be found on the ELPA21 page of the DE website and in the TELPA online training materials.