Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Assessment for all learners
- Authentic Assessment
- Includes a task for students
to show application of skill
that has been learned
- Often involves real
world tasks for
students to
demonstrate
knowledge
- Great form of assessment for
EL/EB students because it
provides multiple ways to
demonstrate understanding
- Examples of authentic
assessment include journaling,
oral presentations,
video/website creation, and
project-based tasks
- Authentic assessment
is
student-structured.
- Traditional Assessment
- Traditional assessment is
assessment that is driven by
curriculum. Students usually select
an answer or recall information for
the assessment.
- Includes assessment tasks such as
multiple-choice tests, fill in the blanks,
true-false, and matching
- Not the best form of assessment for EL/EB
students because it doesn't allow students
to demonstrate the skills they've learned in
a way that best fits their needs or in a way
that makes the most sense to them.
- However, this form of testing is still relevant in schools
today since most end-of-the-year/high stakes testing
follows a traditional assessment format.
- High Stakes Testing
- Designed to measure whether or not content
and performance standards established by the
state have been achieved.
- Holds administrators, teachers, and
students responsible for the school's
growth, progress, and success.
- EL/EB students are considered a
sub-group in many schools when
calculating the schools AYP.
- English language proficiency tests can
be substituted for the end of year
assessment during an EL student's first
year in US public schools.
- Tests are not responsive to the culture of
the student taking the test but rather the
culture of the area where the test is being
administered.
- Try to show all students on an equal or
fair playing field.
- Initial Assessment for ELs
- Every child who speaks a language other
than English must be identified.
- No specific guidelines on how
the identification must be
accomplished
- Home language surveys are given to
identify the parents' and students'
primary language.
- Only qualified staff members can administer home
language surveys.
- Language proficiency tests are given to the
students to determine their English proficiency level.
- Ongoing assessment
- Provides continuous feedback on student
performance and effectiveness of
instruction.
- May be planned assessments like quizzes, tests, report
or essay writing.
- May be informal classroom observation of student
behavior and language.
- Portfolio assessment is one type of performance-based
ongoing assessment that is good for all learners,
including EL students.
- Excellent EL portfolios should be comprehensive, systematic, tailored to the
needs of that student, informative for the student and teacher, and contain
authentic, purposeful work.
- Rubrics
- Rubrics measure student
performance on a task and provide
helpful feedback.
- Rubrics are flexible and can be shaped to fit the
needs of the teacher.
- Students should be provided the rubric before the task
begins so they know what good performance looks like.
- Beneficial to all students, including
EL students
- Can be holistic or analytic based on the task.