Assessment of Bilingual Students

Catalog description

Overview of procedures and instruments used to promote assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning in English learners and emerging bilinguals. Develop understanding of the purposes, characteristics, strengths, and limitations of formal assessments and informal structured and unstructured classroom assessments, strategies for using assessment data to plan and deliver instruction, and the impact of validity, reliability, and bias. Tools and practices for identifying, placing, and assessing language and content learning in English learners and emerging bilinguals at all levels of English language development will be included. A minimum of 20 clock hours of on-site activities in PK-12 schools is included. *This course is only offered through the School of Extended Education.