Tag: assessment
Language Adapts, Students Adapt—Why Not Language Tests?
Imagine you are trying to build strength. You go to the gym every day, lift weights, and then come home to rest and recover. The next day, you are back at the gym for...
Creating Pathways for Lifelong Learners
In recent years, a number of states have promoted the creation of pathways to make it easier for...
Help Develop Spanish SEL Assessments
There is a scarcity of validated Spanish-language social–emotional assessments, despite recognition that social–emotional competence is essential for a child’s success and well-being. Addressing this gap, investigators at Rush University Medical Center are conducting a...
Using Comics to Teach
Over the past two centuries, as the world has benefited from globalization, the US has evolved as a monolingual country. I am currently in my fourteenth year of teaching French, and...
Language Adapts, Students Adapt—Why Not Students’ Language Tests?
Imagine you are trying to build strength. You go to the gym every day, lift weights, and then come home to rest and recover. The next day, you are back at the gym for...
Improving Language Equity for the Seals of Biliteracy
Heritage language learners add to the rich variety of the U.S.’s languages, yet all too often those very students are denied the recognition they deserve. The Seal of...
Testing with Sensitivity
1. How have school shutdowns changed the way educators view student assessments?
With everything teachers were asked to do during the transition to remote learning, they had little time to dedicate to assessment. They...
Choosing and Using Tests Effectively
Right now, educators are contemplating several questions as they strive to prepare students for the fall. This is particularly true when it comes to assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their students.
As an...
Questioning the Test
University admissions officers and faculty strive to recruit and admit students who, either at the time of admittance or after additional English language preparation, possess a level of English language ability that will enable...
Assessing Change
Our ability to adapt to new situations is key to success. However, change often happens too slowly for us to recognize it, so it takes a sudden, dramatic shift in circumstances to spur a...