Adapting Assessments for English Language Learners
What uses a variety of assessment tools and does not rely on only one or two types of assessments to measure student learning?
Variety
What is a collection of a student's work over time that demonstrates mastery of specific performance criteria against which that tasks in the portfolio can be judged?
A portfolio
What provides information about a students' abilities and performance, and this information can be used to adjust instruction to meet the needs of ELLs?
Formative Assessment
What might include written work such as a report, test or story that can be considered a record of a student's progress?
Work samples
What adapts the number of items that ELLs are expected to complete such as only odd or only the even questions?
Range
Where can students record what they have learned from a particular experience?
Experience summaries
What adapts the amount of time that ELLs have for completing a task, such as providing more processing time or breaking tasks down into manageable chunks?
Time
What are the products that often involve a number of skills are developed over more than one class period?
Projects, reports or papers (any of the following)
What adapts the amount of scaffolding provided to ELLs during assessments by asking an aide, peer assistant, or parent volunteer to read or explain the task or even read the test items aloud?
Level of Support
What could contain information and represent certain aspects of their learning?
Model