Assessing Emergent Bilinguals in the Classroom

Initial Assessment
1. Identifies non-English speakers
  1. Home Language Survey
  2. Language Proficiency Tests
2. Mandated by Federal Government
  1. Dosn't specify how
3. Determines Services needed
On-going Assessment
1. Comprehensive
  1. breadth and depth to the artifacts within
  2. indicate student mastery
  3. cross-curricular artifacts
  4. formal and informal assessments
2. predetermined and systematic,
  1. purposeful
  2. planned in advance
  3. regular basis
  4. state or district ESL standards
  5. standards for the course of study
  6. content checklist
3. tailored
  1. tailored to meet applicable priorities and goals
  2. based on his or her specific English language and literacy levels
  3. opportunities to show growth
4. informative
  1. conveys useful data
    1. ESL teacher
    2. classroom teacher
    3. parents
    4. Student
  2. Clear picture of student growth
    1. Clearly Designed Rubrics
5. authentic
  1. represent authentic tasks conducted in the classroom
  2. examples of purposeful work
  3. student involved in the selection
High-Stakes Testing
1. used to make important decisions about students
  1. should students be promoted
  2. should students be allowed to graduate
  3. should students be admitted to programs
2. considered a natural outcome of the standards movement in the U.S.
  1. to make students, teachers, and administrators responsible for a high standard of teaching and learning
3. measure content and performance standards
Formative Assessment
1. a range of formal and informal assessment procedures
2. conducted by teachers during the learning process
3. used to modify teaching and learning activities
4. used to improve student attainment
5. involves qualitative feedback
Summative Assessment
1. focus is on the outcome of a program
2. used to evaluate student learning
3. typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year
4. often recorded as scores or grades that are then factored into a student’s permanent academic record
5. major component of the grading process in most districts, schools, and courses
Authentic Assessment
1. includes a rubric for evaluation
2. includes a task for students to perform
3. includes a task for students to perform
4. Varied
5. Students are asked to perform real-world tasks
6. demonstrates meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills
7. Integrate Teaching, Learning and Assessment
8. Provide Multiple Paths to Demonstration
9. Teaching to the test
  1. Backwards planning
  2. Tasks are determined then curriculum is created
Traditional Assessment
1. forced-choice
  1. multiple-choice
  2. fill-in-the-blank
  3. true-false
  4. matching
2. A school's mission is to develop productive citizens.
3. To be a productive citizen an individual must possess a certain body of knowledge and skills.
4. Teachers teach the information
  1. schools test students to see if they acquired the information
5. grounded in educational philosophy

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