English Language Proficiency Assessment

Purpose

Oregon is a member of the English Language Proficiency Assessment for the 21st Century (ELPA21), a group of states committed to supporting educators, school administrators, and communities as they adopt and implement the new English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards and college- and career-ready standards.

The ELPA measures and reports on students’ English language proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and comprehension. Delivered online, ELPA is designed to be interactive and includes questions that reflect real-world scenarios. Its main purpose is to qualify students for appropriate language services and help guide schools to best support student needs.

Assessment

The ELPA screener Directions for Administration can be found under Administration Manuals on the Test Administration page.

Guidance

Resources

Achievement Level Descriptors

Archived Materials

Oregon ELPA Cut Scores 2013-14 & 2014-15
Hand-scoring Rubrics
- Kindergarten
  - Speaking Rubrics
- Grade 1
  - Speaking Rubrics
- Grades 2-3
  - Speaking Rubrics
  - Writing Rubrics
- Grades 4-5
  - Speaking Rubrics
  - Writing Rubrics
- Grades 6-8
  - Speaking Rubrics
  - Writing Rubrics
- High School
  - Speaking Rubrics
  - Writing Rubrics

Test Specifications

Test Specifications

Speaking Handscoring Rubrics

The following are non-secure documents provided by ELPA21. These documents are used by our scoring vendor to train personnel who will be hand scoring the Speaking portion of the ELPA Summative.

For more information about Oregon’s English Language Proficiency Assessment, please contact Ben Wolcott at 503-947-5835.