Key Terms & Concepts
This “assessment for learning” happens during a lesson to help a teacher know if they should slow down or re-teach.
What is Formative Assessment?
This allows students to be tested in their home language and simplifies the language used in their tests.
What are Accommodations?
Examples of alternative authentic assessments for EL.
What are observations, self-assessment, peer assessment, and portfolio assessment?
If a science test is so wordy that an ELL student fails because of the English rather than actual content, the test is lacking this specific quality.
What is Validity?
Tests that unfairly favors/ disadvantages certain groups (gender, religion, ethnicity, economic status)
What is Bias?
A tool that is used to evaluate authentic assessments.
What is a rubric?
Instead of a multiple-choice test, a teacher asks an ELL to conduct a science experiment or give a presentation to show what they know
What is a Performance Assessment?
An approach to test design ensuring assessments are accessible to all students. Defines who is being tested, why, and what is being measured.
What is Universal Design?
Instruction leverages ELL’s home language, Standards-aligned instruction for ELLs is rigorous, grade-level appropriate, and provides deliberate and
appropriate scaffolds, Instruction moves ELLs forward by taking into account their English proficiency level(s) and prior
schooling experiences, struction fosters ELLs’ autonomy by equipping them with the strategies necessary to comprehend
and use language in a variety of academic settings, Diagnostic tools and formative assessment practices are employed to measure students’ content knowledge, academic language competence, and participation in disciplinary practices, or Instruction focuses on providing ELLs with opportunities to engage in discipline- speci!c practices which are designed to build conceptual understanding and language competence in tandem
What are the Six Key Principles for ELL instruction?
The first document a parent fills out that "triggers" the English language proficiency testing process.
What is the Home Language Survey (HLS)?
Meant to determine how well students are performing in a subject area.
What is Content-Area Testing?
The purpose of Can Do Descriptors
What describes what learners can do with language across different content areas?
The concept that a school should never make a major decision about an ELL based on only one single test score.
What are Multiple Measures?
A type of validity that considers social consequences of test usage on students.
What is Consequential Validity?
Types of instructional support for language learners.
What are linguistic support, graphic support, sensory support, and interactive support?