Selecting Assessments In education, assessments are incredibly important in educating the children with in each classroom. Assessments give teachers, students, and parents a window into how a student learns, how much is being retained, and what strategies best fit the needs of said student. In the case of English Language Learners, assessment data gained from evaluating students can determine placement and tell of the proficiency level of the student. There are many variances in assessments and so
In the book Engaging in the Language Arts, it shares that language arts assessments play a significant role in the classroom. The purpose of these assessments is to “guide the teacher in instructional decisions” about the student’s academic needs (p. 34). Assessments “primary purpose is to improve teaching and learning” (p. 35). Assessments provide the teacher with a comprehensible understanding of the student’s strengths and weaknesses. However, in the book Reading and Learning to Read it discusses
in testing and assessment has been defined in numerous ways. A frequently mentioned definition is the one by Wiggins (1993) who describes authentic tasks as “Engaging and worthy problems or questions of importance, in which students must use knowledge to fashion performances effectively and creatively. The tasks are either replicas of or analogous to the kinds of problems faced by adult citizens and consumers or professionals in the field” (p. 229). In language testing and assessment many experts believe
communicate in a language other than one’s first language has been considered highly important. The necessity of teaching foreign languages to Young Learners (aged 5-12 years old) has been widely recognized and, as a result, recent years have witnessed an explosion in the number of children learning English as a foreign language as part of their primary education. In fact, in many countries worldwide a tendency to lower the age at which school children begin their foreign language learning has been
becoming a society of multiple cultures and languages. With their parents migration children who do not speak English are moved from their home and place in the English dominated school system where many teacher only speak English. There are also student who were born in this country but their home language is not English by virtue of their family not being fluent in English or their parents want to ensure that their children learn their home language, so for these children born in and English speaking
learning in the classroom setting. Therefore, assessments administered to students in the classroom are part of the RTI process. Every student learns differently, and understanding how a student learns can help a teacher differentiate between students who require specific methods of instruction that will enable them to learn, and students who struggle because of a possible disability (Bender, 2008). Discovering how a student responds to interventions attempted in the classroom can provide documentation
Introduction Assessment refers to the process of making a judgement or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully. The most interesting thing here is the word process. The purpose of most forms of assessment in the English Language classroom should be to inform people of how much progress a student is making. Assessment can take many different forms and does not need to be limited to tests and exams. 2. What are some of the ways in which language assessment can be used for
Introduction: Assessment is one of the crucial components of the education. Traditional exams and tests are mostly based on materials taught in the course to meet predetermined objectives. They cannot assess whether or not learners can apply it. To truly understand some new ideas, students need to apply it. My experience as an English teacher provides some ideas to frame my discussion of assessment. Although many teachers think that the scores of the exams and the tests are objective and cannot
Second language acquisition is a challenging process for any person. It requires time in order to master a second language. First language acquisition comes naturally without the person having to make a big effort in order to communicate with others. Teachers need to be sensitive to the student community. Every year I receive English Language Learners who struggle due to the language barrier. For some of them the English language is not only their second language, but their third language to learn
thinking about having English language learners in a classroom full of English speaking students. I have never thought about having students who do not speak English in a classroom until recently because of our class discussions and the reading assignments. Therefore, since I am going to be an educator, I am glad to be aware that having ELL students in my future classroom is a possibility. I want to be a successful teacher for every student who walks into my classroom, rather they speak English or