Second Language
Tests/Measurement
Piaget
More Second Language
100
This is an acronym used to describe language skills needed to interact in social situations.This term is often credited to Jim Cummins research related to language acquisition and learning.
What is BICS?
100
Examples: Arthur Point Scale Leiter International Performance Scale Stanford-Binet Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test WISC, WISC-R, WAIS, WPPSI Draw-A-Person Raven Progressive Matrices Gessell Developmental Schedule Slosson Intelligence Tes
What are some tests banned per Larry P.?
100
This involves the changing of an old structure so that new experiences can be processed.
What is accommodation?
100
The purpose of this test is to: •To identify students who are limited English proficient •To determine the level of English language proficiency of students who are limited English proficient •To assess the progress of limited English proficient students in acquiring the skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing in English.
What is California English Language Development Test?
200
This is also another term credited to Jim Cummins research related to language acquisition and learning. It highly abstract, decontextualized communication that takes place in the classroom, especially in the later elementary grades. It involves the “language of learning”, which enables children to problem-solve, hypothesize, imagine, reason and project into situations with which they have no personal experience.
What is CALP?
200
a. Is the test standardized and does it purport to measure intelligence (cognition, mental ability or aptitude)? b. Are the test results reported in the form of IQ or mental age? c. Does evidence of the (construct) validity of the test rely on correlations with IQ tests?
What are the considerations in making a determination of whether a test falls under the IQ test ban for African-American pupils?
200
These structures are the means by which experience is interpreted and organized.
What are schemes?
200
This test(s) is intended for measuring bilingual verbal ability, or the unique combination of cognitive/academic language abilities possessed by bilingual individuals in English and another language (NOT JUST SPANISH). The need for this test is based in the reality that bilingual persons know some things in one language, some things in the other language, and some things in both languages.
What is the Bilingual Verbal Ability Test?
300
It takes two-three years to acquire this.
What is BICS?
300
This uses progressive matrices to allow for a culturally neutral evaluation of students’ nonverbal reasoning and general problem-solving ability, regardless of the individual student’s primary language, education, culture or socioeconomic background
What is NNAT?
300
This is the period when emergence of symbolic representation begins, object permanence is understood, and basic means-ends skills have emerged. Give the age range as well.
What is the Sensori-Motor period of development? Birth to age 2.
300
DAS-II & UNIT
What are the two most commonly used measures of cognitive abilities when assessing African American students according to the CASP survey?
400
It takes 5-7 years to acquire this.
What is CALP?
400
This is a set of individually administered specialized tasks that measure cognitive abilities. Both administration and item response formats are completely nonverbal. Test materials have been designed to be culturally and ethnically sensitive, making them ideal for use with students who may be disadvantaged by traditional language-dependent measures. The tests measure a broad range of complex memory and reasoning abilities, including both verbal (symbolic) and nonverbal mediation.
What is the UNIT?
400
This is a period when a child possesses symbolic thought without operations. In the absence of operations, thinking is governed more by appearance than logical necessity. Give the age range as well.
What is the pre-operation period?
500
This is the silent period. English language learners may have up to 500 words in their receptive vocabulary but they are not yet speaking. Some students will, however, repeat every thing you say. They are not really producing language but are parroting.
What is the Preproduction stage of second language acquisition?
500
This is a norm-referenced measure of intelligence based on the PASS theory of cognitive processing. PASS consists of four cognitive components: Planning, Attention Simultaneous, and Successive processes. These are cognitive functions which form a complex and interdependent system. This test is an acceptable measure for African American students?
What is the Cognitive Assessment System?
500
Thought no longer applied strictly to concrete problems. Directed inward: thought becomes the object of thought (metagcognition!) Advances in use of deductive and inductive logic And what age range is it?
What is formal operations?
500
These are tests or subtests that require a lot of language and cultural knowledge
What are culturally loaded tests?
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