Assessments in the ESL Classroom

High-Stakes Assessments
1. Used to make important decisions about students. These decisions include: graduation, grade promotion, and program admittance
2. This is part of the U.S.'s standards movement. Administrators, students, and teachers are responsible for a high standard of teaching and learning.
3. These assessments are created to measure of the state has affectively taught the content standards as well as the performance standards.
4. Standardized Testing
Authentic Assessment:
1. Uses real-world tasks to show application of knowledge and skills.
2. Often, this type of assessment allows the child to perform a task and has a rubric to guide them.
3. Allows students to use the information, material, and content knowledge after graduation.
4. Integrates teaching, learning, and assessing.
5. Authentic Assessment Steps: http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/howdoyoudoit.htm
Portfolio Assessments
1. Use to assess the student throughout the entire year. Work can be collected over time to show the learner's growth towards a standard.
2. Include information, sample work, examples, and evaluations. These samples can include: writing, drawings, oral tapes, video tapes, test data, and more!
3. Checklists can be left in the portfolio to make instructional decisions while holding the student and teacher reliable.
4. Math Checklist
Assessing Content Knowledge
1. EL's are still responsible for learning content knowledge. They need help getting critical thinking skills. To help, you can scaffold assessments and have differentiated scoring scores, separate from language proficiency.
2. Initial Assessment: EL students must first be tested and identified as needing special services. A home language survey is sent home, and a language proficiency test is administered.
3. Ongoing Assessment: This provides feedback throughout the year to determine learning needs and progress. This type of assessment can be formal, like a written test, or it can be observation based.
4. Content Area Progress Form
Traditional Assessment
1. Multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, short answer type tests.
2. A teacher does not have to choose between Authentic and Traditional. A mix can sometimes be what a child needs.
3. Traditional assessments involve: selecting a response while recalling and recognizing, It is teacher structured and provides indirect evidence to further teach the child.

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