Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges To Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency To Student Achievement
by Margo Gottlieb /
2016 / English / PDF
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Build the bridges for English language learners to reach success!
This thoroughly updated edition of Gottliebs classic delivers a complete set of tools, techniques, and ideas for planning and implementing instructional assessment of ELLs. The book includes:
-A focus on academic language use in every discipline, from mathematics to social studies, within and across language domains
-Emphasis on linguistically and culturally responsive assessment as a key driver for measuring academic achievement
-A reconceptualization of assessment "as," "for," and "of" learning
-Reflection questions to stimulate discussion around how students, teachers, and administrators can all have a voice in decision making