Assessing English language learners : theory and practice / Guillermo Solano-Flores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solano Flores, Guillermo, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--United States--Evaluation.

English language.

Educational tests and measurements--United States.

Educational tests and measurements.

English language--Study and teaching.

Evaluation.

United States.

English language--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs). Sensitive to the professional development needs of both in-service and pre-service mainstream teachers with ELLs in their classrooms and those receiving formal training to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students, the text is designed to engage readers in: viewing assessment as a critical port of teaching, appreciating that assessments provide teachers with valuable information about their students' learning and thinking, becoming aware of the relationship among language, culture, and testing, understanding the reasoning that guides test construction, recognizing the limitations of testing practices, being confident that assessment is an activity classroom teachers (not only accountability specialists) can perform. Highlighting alternative, multidisciplinary approaches that address linguistic and cultural diversity in testing, this text, enhanced by multiple field-tested exercises and examples of different forms of assessment, is ideal for any course covering the theory and practice of ELL assessment. Book jacket.

Contents:

Understanding assessment

Language, assessment, and English language learners

Assessment, cognition, and culture

Assessing language proficiency

Assessing content knowledge

Formative assessment

Accommodations and accessibility resources

Content and response processes

Item and test psychometric properties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780415819299

9780415819282

0415819288

0415819296

OCLC:

914225366

Publisher Number:

99967464976