You will find teacher instructions as well as studentfacing instructions and supports. Special initiativessubject matter projects, 9500 gillman dr. Applying ethical standards to portfolio assessment of writing in english as a second language. Imitative writing, 221 tasks in hand writing letters, words, and punctuation, 221 spelling tasks and detecting phonemegrapheme correspondences, 223 designing assessment tasks. Integrated performance assessment is a classroombased performance assessment model developed by actfl that can be used for evaluating students communication skills in the three modes of communication interpretive. Educational plan for english as a second language learners. If the test is performance based, that information is provided as well. The center for advanced research on language acquisition. Second language writing portfolio assessment the influences of the assessment criteria and. Developing rubrics for language assessment with dr.
English language features are identified key in column 1. Designing second language performance assessments nflrc. Level of macroeconomics pdf huntsburg ohio haynes 3239 cocepts of physics dhcp server geauga county dessler,g. Performance assessment of language minority students. Fifteen raters from this program participated in the initial survey phase, in which they. Iowa assessment scores that indicate grade level proficiency based on national standard score nss in reading. It is not included in a student grade, nor should it be used to judge a teachers performance. Aligning taskbased language assessment and taskbased language instruction 1. Genres of written language, 219 types of writing performance, 220 micro and macroskills of writing, 220 designing assessment tasks.
In second language teacher education, we include in this arc of assessment preservice teacher preparation and training, inservice professional dev elopment, and also judgments. Interaction in second language performance assessment. Next, issues in performance assessment design, implementation, reliability, and validity are discussed. Resources include performance tasks, professional development tools, and examples of how schools, districts, and states have integrated performance assessment. For more information about home language assessment, see. For the past forty years the nature of linguistic competence has been at the centre of discussions among linguists, both theoretical and applied. Presented here is a bank of performance tasks for you, the teacher, which is designed to enhance your repertoire of assessment strategies for evaluating students according to the english curriculum. The authors outline test and item specifications, and they present numerous examples of prototypical language tasks. This technical report focuses on the decisionmaking potential provided by second language performance assessments. A formative assessment or assignment is a tool teachers use to give feedback to students andor guide their instruction.
Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them. The second is the organisation for economic cooperation and development. Competence and performance in learning and teaching. Performance assessments for english language learners 1 performance assessments for english language learners raditional standardized achievement test outcomes are used for highstakes decisions in assessment and accountability systems throughout the united states. There are many ways you can create a performance assessment. More meaningful assessment for dual language learners. Fluent english language skills as measured by the ielda b. This bank of performance tasks has been developed with two main aims in. These resources connect to contentarea vocabulary and specific.
Selected papers from the 15th language testing research colloquium studies in language testing series, vol. Other districtwide assessments indicating grade level performance in reading. National foreign languages resource center, university of hawaii at manoa also available from eric. Below is a simplified version of creating a performance assessment effectively. English language assessment instruments for adults. Assessment of learning refers to those assessments that happen after learning has occurred to determine. Ell assessments english language learners reading az. First to look at what students know and second to give constructive feedback. The performance assessment resource bank is an online collection of highquality performance tasks and resources that support the use of performance assessment for meaningful learning. They also propose a research agenda focusing on the operationalization of second language performance assessments. Discussion of what taskbased assessment is and how it is linked. Continue the development of performance tasks by developing new tasks and aligning the rubrics to tasks and.
Performance assessments for english language learners. This shift synchronizes with the worldwide movement in general education to combine assessment of learning and assessment for learning. In education policy, school assessment policies play a role a bit like salt plays in health and cuisine. Table 4 provides a guide for the languages of assessment by instructional design. Download the table of contents and chapter one of this publication as a pdf file 156k. Sample professional growth plan goals performance assessment. Introduction welldesigned assessment procedures are essential to meeting the needs of language minority students acquiring english as their second language. Investigating the practices of assessment methods in. The overarching goal of assessing students is to provide a clear sense of what students have internalized and what still needs support in regards to the standardsbased skills at hand. Ells are students who are still developing proficiency in english.
Tests lurk in the background of every conversation, always there, always implicitly raising the blood pressure of the body politic. It is important to be aware of gaps in students home language exposure and instruction when interpreting assessment resu lts. On the one hand, too much testing ruins the main instructional dish. The performance assessment is widely used in students to test their capability under a series of a performance test.
Both of these would be considered summative assessments. Columns 2 and 3 contain an overview of how these features are handled by first and second language speakers. Create a standardsbased integrated performance assessment unit stepbystep examples. This is a notoriously difficult domain of knowledge for students in second language teacher education programs because of the high level of abstraction around its key theoretical concepts, validity, reliability, and practicality, and how they need to be balanced against each other in designing and using assessment.
As the exclusive licensee of actfl, we supply tests that ensure the highest validity standard in language testing to both individuals and organizations. For more information on language record adaptations, contact. Gradetm group reading assessment and diagnostic evaluation is a normative diagnostic reading assessment that determines what developmental skills students have mastered and where they need instruction or intervention. Pdf assessment in second language teacher education. Feedback on second language students writing volume 39 issue 2 ken hyland, fiona hyland. Feedback on second language students writing language. Assessments at all grade ranges give teachers indepth information about students language development across the domains of speaking, writing, reading, and listening. Key issues to consider hyunjoo kim teachers college, columbia university in the last two decades or so, the tenets of communicative language teaching with their strong emphasis on students ability to use language in reallife situations have taken hold in foreign and second language classrooms. All these research groups posited that best practices included designing some form of alternative assessment in the language writing context.
Language testing and assessment routledge applied linguisticsis a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of english language and applied linguistics. Next, it examines major principles for second language assessment including validity, reliability, practicality, equivalency, authenticity, and washback. First, performance assessment is situated within the broader discussion of alternatives in language assessment and in educational assessment in general. Often developed and field tested for the mainstream student population, these. Aligning taskbased language assessment and taskbased.
An investigation of second language taskbased performance assessments, honolulu, hawaii. Learners come to adult english as a second language programs for diverse reasons. Guidelines for the assessment of english language learners. With correlated followup instruction, grade offers a total solution for reading assessment and instruction. The following definitions are used to describe performance based assessments. There are four major categories of language testing and assessment that lti provides. Ell assessments are designed for tracking students language skills progress at key points in the school year.