Common Language Assessment for English Learners

by Margo H. Gottlieb, Foreword by Kate Menken

Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate common language assessments for your English learners. With this step-by-step guide, teachers, school leaders, and administrators will find organizing principles, lead questions, and action steps all directing you toward collaborative assessment. Yield meaningful information for and about EL learning preferences, build student self-assessment, and inform your instructional decision making based on reliable results. Benefits * Elaborates on five phases of implementing common language assessment: planning, design, refinement, inspection, and maintenance * Examines the status of language education in US schools * Defines the features of common instructional assessment * Illustrates how a standards-referenced common language assessment can be built * Describes the importance of auditing current assessment practices and emphasizes the need to balance different forms of assessment

177 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2011

Reviews

[Shaeley Santiago · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical book about the how and why behind working with a group to create language assessments that you all use. Includes many resources like planning templates as well as examples of the types of assessments and rubrics used by others who have done this work. I read this book with the hope of creating common assessments to use with our English Language Learners in my school district.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book needed to be written. Thank you!