Assessing Emergent Bilinguals in the Classroom

Assessing Emergent Bilinguals in the Classroom

1. Initial Assessment

   • Identifies non-English speakers
     • Home Language Survey
     • Language Proficiency Tests
   • Mandated by Federal Government
     • Dosn't specify how
   • Determines Services needed

2. On-going Assessment

   • Comprehensive
     • breadth and depth to the artifacts within
     • indicate student mastery
     • cross-curricular artifacts
     • formal and informal assessments
   • predetermined and systematic,
     • purposeful
     • planned in advance
     • regular basis
     • state or district ESL standards
     • standards for the course of study
     • content checklist
   • tailored
     • tailored to meet applicable priorities and goals
     • based on his or her specific English language and literacy levels
     • opportunities to show growth
   • informative
     • conveys useful data
       • ESL teacher
       • classroom teacher
       • parents
       • Student
     • Clear picture of student growth
       • Clearly Designed Rubrics
   • authentic
     • represent authentic tasks conducted in the classroom
     • examples of purposeful work
     • student involved in the selection

3. High-Stakes Testing

   • used to make important decisions about students
     • should students be promoted
     • should students be allowed to graduate
     • should students be admitted to programs
   • considered a natural outcome of the standards movement in the U.S.
     • to make students, teachers, and administrators responsible for a high standard of teaching and learning
   • measure content and performance standards

4. Formative Assessment

   • a range of formal and informal assessment procedures
   • conducted by teachers during the learning process
   • used to modify teaching and learning activities
   • used to improve student attainment
   • involves qualitative feedback

5. Summative Assessment

   • focus is on the outcome of a program
   • used to evaluate student learning
   • typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year
   • often recorded as scores or grades that are then factored into a student’s permanent academic record
   • major component of the grading process in most districts, schools, and courses

6. Authentic Assessment

   • includes a rubric for evaluation
   • includes a task for students to perform
   • includes a task for students to perform
   • Varied
   • Students are asked to perform real-world tasks
   • demonstrates meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills
   • Integrate Teaching, Learning and Assessment
   • Provide Multiple Paths to Demonstration
   • Teaching to the test
     • Backwards planning
     • Tasks are determined then curriculum is created

7. Traditional Assessment

   • forced-choice
     • multiple-choice
     • fill-in-the-blank
     • true-false
     • matching
   • A school's mission is to develop productive citizens.
   • To be a productive citizen an individual must possess a certain body of knowledge and skills.
   • Teachers teach the information
     • schools test students to see if they acquired the information
   • grounded in educational philosophy

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