Checkpoint A Assessment Guidance
Pursuant to the implementation of the NYS Learning Standards for World Languages, the first assessments that were required to be aligned to the revised standards were the June 2025 Checkpoint A assessments. The Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages has provided both a guidance document and a webinar explaining the guidance to assist educators in designing and evaluating locally developed Checkpoint A assessments.
- Principles and Guidelines for Adopting or Creating Locally Developed Benchmark Assessments for Checkpoint A - Modern Languages (other than ASL) (Click here to access the webinar associated with this guidance document.)
- Principles and Guidelines for Adopting or Creating Locally Developed Benchmark Assessments for Checkpoint A - Classical Languages (Click here to access the webinar associated with this guidance document.)
- Principles and Guidelines for Adopting or Creating Locally Developed Benchmark Assessments for Checkpoint A - American Sign Language (ASL) (A webinar on this guidance is planned for fall 2025.)
Scoring Guides for Checkpoint A
OBEWL has created easy-to-use scoring guides for Checkpoint A Interpersonal and Presentational tasks. These scoring guides include rubrics aligned to the Checkpoint A proficiency targets (Novice Mid to Novice High) written in student-friendly language that can be used to score student work for formative, end-of-unit summative, and Checkpoint Benchmark assessments. As the proficiency targets for Checkpoint A are the same for category 1-2 and category 3-4 languages, these scoring guides can be used for all modern languages. These scoring guides are available in both Word format and PDF.
- Checkpoint A Interpersonal Scoring Guide (Word, PDF)
- Checkpoint A Presentational Scoring Guide (Word, PDF)
Webpage last updated on July 28, 2025