EBOOK
Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity
Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement
Margo Gottlieb(0)
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Build the bridges for English language learners to reach success!
This thoroughly updated edition of Gottlieb's classic delivers a complete set of tools, techniques, and ideas for planning and implementing instructional assessment of ELLs.
The book includes:
• A focus on academic language use in every discipline, from mathematics to social studies, within and across language domains
• Emphasis on linguistically and culturally responsive assessment as a key driver for measuring academic achievement
• A reconceptualization of assessment "as," "for," and "of" learning
• Reflection questions to stimulate discussion around how students, teachers, and administrators can all have a voice in decision making
This thoroughly updated edition of Gottlieb's classic delivers a complete set of tools, techniques, and ideas for planning and implementing instructional assessment of ELLs.
The book includes:
• A focus on academic language use in every discipline, from mathematics to social studies, within and across language domains
• Emphasis on linguistically and culturally responsive assessment as a key driver for measuring academic achievement
• A reconceptualization of assessment "as," "for," and "of" learning
• Reflection questions to stimulate discussion around how students, teachers, and administrators can all have a voice in decision making