• Assessment for Linguistically Diverse Students
  • Cover
  • Session One: Understanding My Role as an Assessor
  • Session Two: Developing Understanding through Media
  • Session Three: Designing Assessment Using Standards for Effective Pedagogy
  • Session Four : Considering Alternative Assessments in Relationship to ELs
  • Session Five: Designing and Developing Assessments
  • Session Six: Debating and Responding to Assessment Issues
  • Session Seven: Developing Knowledge for Practice and Advocacy
  • Session Eight : Revealing My Learning
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  • HW 1.2 Attending to Equity and Oral Language in Assessing ELs

    • HW 1.2 Attending to Equity and Oral Language in Assessing ELs

    Developing Knowledge for Assessing ELs

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    Learning Outcome Pedagogical Intent Student Position

    Demonstrate knowledge and use of a variety of on-going, classroom-based assessments adapted to student needs.

    Assessment: 50 pts.

    Due: Session 2

    Teachers, when they understand how assessment of EL students is expected and completed in their district and schools, can learn the placement of their EL students as the basis for learning and assessing.

    Students have learned about assessment issues on the federal, state, and local school levels for English language learners. They will read a chapter from the Assessment of English Language Learners entitled The Bridge to Equity.

    Instructions

    1. For this homework assignment you will read Chapter 1 and skim Chapter 4 from Gottlieb, M.(2016). Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to educational equity: Connecting academic language proficiency to student achievement 2nd edition:Corwin Press.) *Here is a link to a 2 min. video of Margot Gottlieb. 

    2. To guide your reading, use the reading guides and provide written answers to the questions. We revisit Chapter 4 in a later homework so your notes will be helpful for that assignment.

    3. Click and download the Reading Guide for Chapter 1 Gottlieb.

    4. Click and download the Reading Guide for Chapter 4 Gottlieb. You will read this Chapter a second time. The focus here is on research findings about language and student engagement and the assessment of oral language. 

    This content is provided to you freely by BYU Open Learning Network.

    Access it online or download it at https://open.byu.edu/diverse_assessment/hw_1.3.