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Secondary ESOL
Professional Readings: Assessment
On ESOL Online
On Other Websites
- Assessment Glossary
Clarify your understanding of terms relating to assessment by using this glossary.
- Assessment Strategies: English, Mathematics, and Science
A very useful resource for thinking outside the square in assessment. Approaches are explained clearly and include examples. Suitable for English language learners. Concept cartoons; drawing; multiple choice questions; multiple choice items for group discussions; predict, observe, explain; matching; mathematical classroom discourse; journalling in mathematics; progressive disclosure; venn diagrams. From the ARBs
- Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (asTTle)
The asTTle home page.
- Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment
A summary of Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam's article arguing that there is firm evidence showing that effective formative assessment raises standards of achievement.
- Standards-based Assessment in the Senior Secondary School: A Research Synthesis
2005 Massey University research synthesis commissioned by NZQA. Interesting implications for ESOL students (PDF).
- Teacher-student Conversations that Promote Learning
MOE online workshop (PPt).
- Assess to Learn (AtoL) Online
Self-directed, online professional development. AtoL Online provides practical resources and guidance to support the goals of NZ's National Assessment Strategy.
- Assessing Integrated Language and Content Instruction
Deborah Short discusses how to isolate the language features from the content objectives when assessing so one does not adversely influence the other.
- Assessing Interactive Oral Skills in EFL Contexts
Jason Beale write about the principles underlying assessment of oral language skills.
- Assessing Language-minority Students
This ERIC Digest article dicsusses how to establish sound practices for testing ESOL students.
- Assessing Learning Disabilities in ESL
Information from a Canadian symposium on learning disabilities (PDF).
- Assessing Reading Growth with Running Records
A clear, brief summary of Marie Clay's running record (An Observational Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, 1993).
- Assessment and Accommodations for English Language Learners: Issues and Recommendations
Discussion around policy statements on the inclusion of ESOL students in large-scale assessments and examples of the types of accommodation that should be made for the students (2001, PDF).
- Assessment and the Language Teacher: Trends and Transitions
Brindley considers some of the effects of the changing assessment landscape on the language teacher's role.
- Assessment for Learning
Current advice from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in the United Kingdom.
- Assessment for Learning
A summary of Ruth Sutton's book describing the connection between planning and assessment in the learning process.
- Assessment for Learning: Beyond the Black Box
This article reinforces the messages implicit in the Black and Wiliam review 'Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment'. From the Assessment Reform Group, originally set up by the British Educational Research Association (PDF).
- Assessment in TESOL: Three Reading Logs
Jason Beale summarises and comments on sections from Bachman and Palmer (Language Testing in Practice), Swain (Teaching and Testing Communicatively) and Weir (Understanding and Developing Language Tests).
- Assessment Portfolios: Including English Language Learners in Large-Scale Assessments
The pros and cons of using portfolios for assessment.
- Assessment-Exemplars
The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars.
- Assessment: Department of Education Tasmania
Assessment principles and strategies developed by the Office for Curriculum, Leadership and Learning, Tasmania.
- Assessment: Sample Surveys, Checklists, Assessment Protocols and Student Profiles
Check your school's assessment procedures for new arrivals against the sample procedures on this site.
- The Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment
English site with useful readings, such as conference presentations by Shirley Clarke.
- asTTle V2 Online Workshop 2003
This slide show describes how asTTle fits in with the Ministry's assessment strategy. It shows teachers how to read and interpret the various asTTle reports.(Power Point, 1.1mb)
- Curriculum Update 54 - Using Assessment Tools / Te Whakamahi i Nga Punaha Aromatawai
Read this 2004 update on using assessment tools to promote learning in the NZ classroom.
- The Effects of Curricula and Assessment on Pedagogical Approaches and on Educational Outcomes
A summary of the MOE research on assessment, with a particular focus on the role of formative assessment.
- Electronic Portfolios
Dr Helen Barrett's website includes links to electronic portfolios, listservs, blogs and wikis.
- Error Correction in SLA Clasrrooms:The Use of Recasts
When it comes to error correction what should teachers do?
- An Evaluation of the Technical and Methodological Aspects of the School Entry Assessment Kit (SEA)
Reviewed by the Australian Council for Educational Research.
- An Examination of Assessment of Limited English Proficient Students
This report reviews issues related to assessment of ESOL students (funded by the U.S. Department of Education).
- Exploring Formative Assessment
A PowerPoint tutorial from the MOE.
- Formative Assessment: Practical Classroom Strategies
Practical ways for teachers to implement formative assessment strategies in the classroom (transcript of interview with Shirley Clarke).
- Giving Quality Feedback
A resource to promote reflection on student learning from teacher feedback. Examples are from English, but applicable to all subject areas (PPT).
- Glossary of Task Words
From the University of New South Wales, a glossary of words commonly used in assessment tasks and exams, from analyse to describe to summarise.
- An Introduction to Formative Assessment for Secondary Teachers
2005 online workshop from the Ministry of Education.
- Kamo Intermediate School - Using the English Exemplars
This case study provides an example of how exemplars have been used to help students assess their work, identify important features, and set appropriate goals.
- Lessons in Assessment
NZ Education Gazette article on Ann Davies' current research highlighting the success of formative assessment.
- NALDIC - Working for Pupils with English as An Additional Language
Position statement on the assessment of English as an additional language from the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum.
- National Consultation on Exemplars: What Difference does it Make for Teachers?
Jenny Poskitt describes the research into the impact of school involvement on the ongoing development of national exemplars.
- National Education Monitoring Project
2006 reports - Writing, Listening and Viewing, Health & Physical Education.
- Notable Quotes on Formative Feedback
This summary of recent research literature could be used as a staff discussion exercise.
- Organizing and Assessing in the Content Area Class
Advice to help mainstream teachers accurately monitor for ESOL student comprehension, and design realistic assessment (everything ESL).
- Planning for Formative Assessment
This MOE PowerPoint tutorial offers suggestions for sharing information about learning outcomes/intentions and achievement/success criteria with students.
- Portfolio Assessments
An overview (The Higher Education Academy).
- Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation
A peer-reviewed electronic journal.
- Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students
Suggestions for alternative assessment that can be incorporated into the daily activities of the classroom (CAL Digest).
- Principles of Assessment
Some principles of assessment are permanent and are not overly affected by current fashions - validity, reliability and washback. A brief reading from The Higher Education Academy.
- Self-assessment
Teachers report on what enables students to reflect on what they have learned and how they have learned (PDF).
- Strategies That Work: Student-led Conferences
Readings from Education World.
- Teacher Perceptions of the Use and Value of Formative Assessment in Secondary English Programmes (PDF)
Russell Aitken article about the perceptions of English teachers who attended a one-day in-service course to discuss the significance of formative assessment in promoting effective learning. Reprinted from set.
- Testing is Too Important to be Left to Testers
Charles Alderson argues that language tests must reflect the curriculum and classroom teaching.
- Using Assessment to Differentiate
Mary Hill describes how one teacher in one school in New Zealand has accommodated tensions between her child-centred philosophy and the accountability demands of assessment.
- What are the Critical Issues in Wide Scale Assessment of English Language Learners?
Raises issues of validity, gives recommendations for adapting tests, and calls for more research (PDF, Menken, 2000).
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