Assessing English Language Learners: Theory and Practice / Edition 1

by Guillermo Solano Flores

Overview

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 part 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415819299
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/09/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Guillermo Solano-Flores is Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA.

Table of Contents

BRIEF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1

UNDERSTANDING ASSESSMENT

2

LANGUAGE, ASSESSMENT, AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

3

ASSESSMENT, COGNITION, AND CULTURE

4

ASSESSING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

5

ASSESSING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

6

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

7

ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY RESOURCES

8

CONTENT AND RESPONSE PROCESSES

9

ITEM AND TEST PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES