Multilingual Assessment.

The Multilingual Literacy SIFE Screener (MLS) is an online, semi-adaptive suite of assessments designed to provide educators in New York State with information about the home-language literacy and math skills of Students with Interrupted/Inconsistent Formal Education (SIFE). The MLS is part of New York State’s SIFE Identification Process and is featured prominently on NYSED’s Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages SIFE Resources website. It is strongly recommended as part of the intake process for newcomer students in New York state public schools. The MLS provides teachers with an automatically generated summary of students’ home language literacy skills so that teachers can design instruction appropriately. The MLS has three modules: Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, and Vocabulary, and is available in 18 languages. For more information please watch our webinardescribing the design features and administration of the MLS. The project is commissioned by the New York State Education Department Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages. The MLS is a project of RISLUS.