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Book Synopsis English Learners Left Behind by : Kate Menken
Download or read book English Learners Left Behind written by Kate Menken and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Book Synopsis Teaching English with Standard Tests by : Casper Carl Certain
Download or read book Teaching English with Standard Tests written by Casper Carl Certain and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests by : r4Educated Solutions
Download or read book Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests written by r4Educated Solutions and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that when English language learners understand the vocabulary used on tests, their scores soar—critical information for schools in an age of testing and accountability. This manual provides evidence-based, teacher-friendly lesson plans that will help English language learners deal with unfamiliar language features on standardized test questions. Teaching Your Secondary ELL Students the Academic Language of Tests supports English language arts teachers in grades 6-12 in providing instruction for content-specific language skills. Each lesson plan provides background information for the teacher, implications for high-stakes testing, a list of materials, academic vocabulary, activities, and in many cases, graphic organizers.
Book Synopsis Beyond Teaching to the Test by : Betsy Gilliland
Download or read book Beyond Teaching to the Test written by Betsy Gilliland and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word accountability is everywhere in education today, but it means different things to different people. Speaking directly to teachers who work closely with English language learners, Betsy Gilliland and Shannon Pella examine essential questions in this age of accountability.
Book Synopsis PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards by : TESOL International Association
Download or read book PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards written by TESOL International Association and published by Tesol Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards build on the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessments (WIDA) Consortium's English Language Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners in Kindergarten through Grade 12 (Wisconsin, 2004). The WIDA Consortium is a group of ten states, formed in 2002 with federal monies, that has developed comprehensive English language proficiency standards. This volume also uses grade-level clusters that reflect current educational configurations in the United States. Each of the five language proficiency standards is divided into the four language domains of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The five levels of language proficiency reflect characteristics of language performance at each developmental stage and include: starting (L1), emerging (L2), developing (L3), expanding (L4), and bridging (L5).
Book Synopsis Teacher-Made Assessments by : Christopher R. Gareis
Download or read book Teacher-Made Assessments written by Christopher R. Gareis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment is not only a measure of student learning, but a means to student learning. This bestselling book guides you in constructing and using your own classroom assessments, including tests, quizzes, essays, and rubrics to improve student achievement. You will learn how to weave together curriculum, instruction, and learning to make assessment a more natural, useful part of teaching. Find out how to... ensure your assessments are fair, reliable, and valid; construct assessments that meet the level of cognitive demand expected of students; create select-response items and understand technology-enhanced items that are increasingly being used on assessments; use constructed-response items and develop scoring criteria such as rubrics; and analyze student results on assessments and use feedback more effectively. This second edition features updated examples that reflect the Common Core State Standards as well as other content standards and new, useful samples of teacher-friendly techniques for strengthening classroom assessment practices. No matter what grade level or subject area you teach, this practical book will become your go-to resource for designing effective assessments.
Author :Stephen Stoynoff Publisher :Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated ISBN 13 : Total Pages :220 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis ESOL Tests and Testing by : Stephen Stoynoff
Download or read book ESOL Tests and Testing written by Stephen Stoynoff and published by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes how ESOL tests and test users have changed greatly in the past few decades. Some widely used ESOL tests have been revised, with a number of new tests incorporating advances in computer technology. In addition, many more ESOL practitioners than in the past are responsible for selecting and using tests. Stephen Stoynoff and Carol A. Chapelle introduce teachers and administrators to the principles, methods, and vocabulary of language assessment. Twenty-one reviewers of ESOL tests consider test purpose, methods, and justification of their use in particular situations.
Book Synopsis The Knowledge Gap by : Natalie Wexler
Download or read book The Knowledge Gap written by Natalie Wexler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.
Author :National Council of Teachers of English. Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :46 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Common Sense and Testing in English by : National Council of Teachers of English. Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English
Download or read book Common Sense and Testing in English written by National Council of Teachers of English. Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The members of the National Council of Teachers of English believe it is imperative that the public and the profession know what great harm is being done to students by unwarranted faith in standardized tests. The Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English was formed in 1974, and found widespread ignorance about tests among teachers, administrators, school board members, the media, and the public. This booklet is about tests in English language arts, but its analysis of the art of testing has insights for all subjects and subject-matter teachers, as the problems with standardized tests are not unique to one subject area. This information is offered for the benefit of the profession, students, and for the citizens who pay for schools and must judge what educators do.
Download or read book The Big Test written by Nicholas Lemann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Educational Testing Service and the attempt to form an elite by sorting students, "fairly and dispassionately."
Book Synopsis Deciding What to Teach and Test by : Fenwick W. English
Download or read book Deciding What to Teach and Test written by Fenwick W. English and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable resource (sold as part of a kit) for developing a curriculum which aligns teaching and testing
Book Synopsis Testing Teacher Candidates by : National Research Council
Download or read book Testing Teacher Candidates written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels for all students. Gaps remain, however, between the nation's educational aspirations and student achievement. To address these gaps, policy makers have recently focused on the qualifications of teachers and the preparation of teacher candidates. This book examines the appropriateness and technical quality of teacher licensure tests currently in use, evaluates the merits of using licensure test results to hold states and institutions of higher education accountable for the quality of teacher preparation and licensure, and suggests alternatives for developing and assessing beginning teacher competence. Teaching is a complex activity. Definitions of quality teaching have changed and will continue to change over time as society's values change. This book provides policy makers, teacher testers, and teacher educators with advice on how to use current tests to assess teacher candidates and evaluate teacher preparation, ensuring that America's youth are being taught by the most qualified candidates.
Book Synopsis Teaching English Language Learners by : Michaela Colombo
Download or read book Teaching English Language Learners written by Michaela Colombo and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book prepares mainstream teachers to provide content instruction to English language learners.
Book Synopsis English Language Proficiency Testing in Asia by : Lily I-Wen Su
Download or read book English Language Proficiency Testing in Asia written by Lily I-Wen Su and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level. Offering much-needed context on locally produced tests in Asia, contributors examine emerging models for English language assessment and the impact these large-scale tests have on the teaching and learning of English. Chapters address the following well-known and developing high-stakes tests in different regions across Asia: the GEPT, the TEPS, the VSTEP, the CET, the EIKEN and TEAP, and the ELPA. Brought together by world-renowned testing assessment scholar Cyril Weir and the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC), one of Asia’s leading testing institutions based in Taiwan, this volume is a useful reference for evaluating, developing, and validating local tests of English and their societal impact. Comprehensive and research-based, chapters cover historic backgrounds, sociocultural contexts, test quality, international standing, and future considerations. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in language assessment, TESOL/TEFL, and applied linguistics, this book will also be of interest to language teaching professionals, language test developers, and graduate students in Asian studies and international education, intercultural communication, and intercultural studies.
Download or read book Elementary English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCC library has 1949-cur.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Standardized Testing by : T. Kelleghan
Download or read book The Effects of Standardized Testing written by T. Kelleghan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to investigate the Pygmalion effect, it is inconceivable that a study of the effects of standardized testing, conceived in the 1960s and planned and executed in the 1970s, would not have been influenced by thinking about teachers' expectations and the influence of test information on the formation of those expectations. While our study did pay special attention to teacher expectations, its scope was much wider. It was planned and carried out in a much broader framework, one in which we set out to examine the impact of a standardized testing program, not just on teachers, but also on school practices, students, and students' parents.
Book Synopsis Young English Language Learners by : Eugene E. Garcia
Download or read book Young English Language Learners written by Eugene E. Garcia and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that the number of non-English speakers is on the rise in the United States. What is less well known is that the largest proportion of this population is children under the age of 5. These young English language learners (ELLs) often demonstrate achievement gaps in basic math and reading skills when they start school. How best to educate this important and growing preschool population is a pressing concern for policymakers and practitioners. The chapters in this important book provide up-to-date syntheses of the research base for young ELLs on critical topics such as demographics, development of bilingualism, cognitive and neurological benefits of bilingualism, and family relationships, as well as classroom, assessment, and teacher-preparation practices. Contributors: Linda M. Espinosa, Margaret Freedson, Claudia Galindo, Fred Genesee, Donald J. Hernandez, José E. Náñez Sr., and Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown “This is a must-have for those who are working directly or indirectly with young English language learners.” —Olivia Saracho, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
