A Practical Guide To Assessing English Language Learners

Author : Christine Anne Coombe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners written by Christine Anne Coombe and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminology. This training guide is intended to help classroom teachers become more comfortable creating and using assessments. A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners provides helpful insights into the practice and terminology of assessment. The text focuses on providing the cornerstones of good assessments—usefulness, validity, reliability, practicality, washback, authenticity, transparency, and security—and techniques for testing. It devotes a chapter to the assessment of each of the four main skill areas (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and also covers placement testing, such as using TOEFL® and MELAB, diagnostic testing, evaluation, and instructional decision-making with regard to testing. Tips to improve students’ test-taking strategies are offered, and each chapter ends with a helpful list of Ten Things to Remember, as well as informative case studies featuring two teachers and their assessment decisions. Incorporating its own principles, A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners opens with a short quiz for the reader called Are You Testwise? that quickly determines how each teacher will benefit from this indispensable guide.

Author : Guillermo Solano Flores
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113407350X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing English Language Learners written by Guillermo Solano Flores and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs). Sensitive to the professional development needs of both in-service and pre-service mainstream teachers with ELLs in their classrooms and those receiving formal training to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students, the text is designed to engage readers in viewing assessment as a critical part of teaching appreciating that assessments provide teachers with valuable information about their students’ learning and thinking becoming aware of the relationship among language, culture, and testing understanding the reasoning that guides test construction recognizing the limitations of testing practices being confident that assessment is an activity classroom teachers (not only accountability specialists) can perform Highlighting alternative, multidisciplinary approaches that address linguistic and cultural diversity in testing, this text, enhanced by multiple field-tested exercises and examples of different forms of assessment, is ideal for any course covering the theory and practice of ELL assessment.

Author : Robert L. Rhodes
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781606237434
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students written by Robert L. Rhodes and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools. Provided are research-based, step-by-step procedures for conducting effective interviews with students, parents, and teachers; making the best use of interpreters; addressing special issues in the prereferral process; and conducting accurate, unbiased assessments of academic achievement, intellectual functioning, language proficiency, and acculturation. Among the book's special features are reproducible worksheets, questionnaires, and checklists--including several in both English and Spanish--in a ready-to-use, large-size format. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

Author : Margo Gottlieb
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1506342159
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity written by Margo Gottlieb and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build the bridges for English language learners to reach success! This thoroughly updated edition of Gottlieb’s classic delivers a complete set of tools, techniques, and ideas for planning and implementing instructional assessment of ELLs. The book includes: A focus on academic language use in every discipline, from mathematics to social studies, within and across language domains Emphasis on linguistically and culturally responsive assessment as a key driver for measuring academic achievement A reconceptualization of assessment “as,” “for,” and “of” learning Reflection questions to stimulate discussion around how students, teachers, and administrators can all have a voice in decision making

Author : J. Michael O'Malley
Publisher : Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780201591514
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners written by J. Michael O'Malley and published by Longman. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical resource book will familiarize teachers, staff developers, and administrators with the latest thinking on alternatives to traditional assessment. It will prepare them to implement authentic assessment in the ESL/bilingual classroom and to incorporate it into instructional planning.

Author : Kate Mahoney
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783097280
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals written by Kate Mahoney and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the assessment of students in K-12 schools who use two or more languages in their daily life: English Language Learners (ELLs), or Emergent Bilinguals. The book includes a thorough examination of the policy, history and assessment/measurement issues that educators should understand in order to best advocate for their students. The author presents a decision-making framework called PUMI (Purpose, Use, Method, Instrument) that practitioners can use to better inform assessment decisions for bilingual children. The book will be an invaluable resource in teacher preparation programs, but will also help policy-makers and educators make better decisions to support their students.

Author : Lori Helman
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462540880
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing Language and Literacy with Bilingual Students written by Lori Helman and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From expert authors, this book guides educators to conduct assessments that inform daily instruction and identify the assets that emergent bilinguals bring to the classroom. Effective practices are reviewed for screening, assessment, and progress monitoring in the areas of oral language, beginning reading skills, vocabulary and comprehension in the content areas, and writing. The book also addresses how to establish schoolwide systems of support that incorporate family and community engagement. Packed with practical ideas and vignettes, the book focuses on grades K–6, but also will be useful to middle and high school teachers. Appendices include reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Author : Lorraine Valdez Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing English Language Learners written by Lorraine Valdez Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Coombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017149
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment written by Christine Coombe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment aims to present in one volume an up-to-date guide to the central areas of assessing the second language performance of English by speakers of other languages. This volume provides snapshots of significant issues and trends that have shaped language assessment in the past and highlights the current state of our understanding of these issues"--

Author : Ute Knoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000651932
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing English for Professional Purposes written by Ute Knoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** WINNER OF ILTA/SAGE Best Book Award 2020 ** Assessing English for Professional Purposes provides a state-of-the-art account of the various kinds of language assessments used to determine people’s abilities to function linguistically in the workplace. At a time when professional expertise is increasingly mobile and diverse, with highly trained professionals migrating across national boundaries to apply their skills in English-speaking settings, this book offers a renewed agenda for inquiry into language assessments for professional purposes (LAPP). Many of these experts work in high-risk environments where communication breakdowns can have serious consequences. This risk has been identified by governments and professional bodies, who implement language tests for gate-keeping purposes. Through a sociological lens of risk and responsibility, this book: provides a detailed overview of both foundational and recent literature in the field; offers conceptual tools for specific purpose assessment, including a socially oriented theory of construct; develops theory and practice in key areas, such as needs analysis, test development, validation and policy; significantly broadens the scope of the assessment of English for professional purposes to include a range of assessment practices for both professionals and laypeople in professional settings. Assessing English for Professional Purposes is key reading for researchers, graduate students and practitioners working in the area of English for Specific Purposes assessment.