Valid Assessment & Accountability for English Learners

Catalog description

This course is designed for bilingual and ESL educators who work with bilingual and ESL programs as teachers, instructional specialists or administrators. Selection, evaluation and design of means for assessing the oral and written language proficiencies and academic achievement of English Learners (ELs). Critical review of standardized tests and their usage in state-mandated accountability systems and authentic assessment techniques and instruments, consideration of relationships between L1 and L2 proficiencies and academic achievement, and sociocultural dimensions of testing and assessment. Prerequisites: Doctoral level standing or consent of the instructor. Crosslisted with: BLED 510 .