Assessing the English Language Learner

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Assessing the English Language Learner Makayla Brown Saint Leo University EDU 334: Reading Foundation Elementary School Professor Martin 04/21/24 1
In order to gain a complete understanding of what students have learned and how they can use this knowledge, assessment is a formal process which involves the collection and analysis of information from various sources. This information shall then be used for the improvement of learning outcomes. The purpose of assessments is to provide diagnostic background knowledge, help decide placement, measure student learning and achievement and improve or inform instruction (how effective methods are). For teachers, assessment helps with the following. Assessments help Diagnose students’ overall content knowledge. Diagnose student’s language abilities and skills. Monitor students’ progress in cognitive learning and language development. Measure students’ achievement in content mastery language development. Identify aspects of student’s motivations for learning Identify and develop appropriate support needed for instruction and Inform parents, administrators, colleagues, and students of their progress. To understand what students have learned or still need to learn in their curriculum, teachers use a number of assessment methods. But it can be hard to determine whether a student's misconceptions are related to language skills or difficulties in basic concepts, when evaluating English Language Learners or ELLs. We also ensure an equitable learning experience for our ELLs by ensuring that assessments are designed to play a central role in education. There are a number of strategies for teachers to implement in order to measure their ELL content knowledge more effectively and understand what they have learned, when developing evaluations. The Home Language Survey (HLS) is the most common assessment used to identify potential ELLs. The HLS is administered to all students when they register for school. The parents complete the student registration form that contains the three main questions required on the HLS. Question 1: “Is a language other than
English spoken at home?” Question 2: “Does the student have a first language other than English?” Question 3: “Does the student most frequently speak a language other than English?” If the parent answers yes to any of these questions the student will be assessed to see where their level is. ACCESS is another tool used to assess ELL students. ACCESS is a tool used to measure ELLs' proficiency in the English Language. ACCESS is a paper-based assessment. Students are administered the speaking section of the test one-on-one with the teacher; the listening, reading, and writing sections may be administered in a group setting. The last one that I will discuss during this essay will be performance-based assessments. Performance based assessments have students apply what they have learned in the real world or real-world scenarios. The best way to show if you have learned something is by trying it out. With these performance-based assessments teachers get a good idea of how well the students retained the concepts and whether or not the students understand them. The corresponding development of a range of various types of suitable measures for children with disabilities has not yet progressed much, despite the significant recent increase in the number of ELLs. The restrictions are related to the total number of measures available, as well as skill and competence areas covered by such measures. A number of the current measures for ELL children have been simplified as an essential translation or adaptation from English versions to be used, with different levels of attention being paid to ensuring comparability in terms of conceptual, language and semantic content and difficulty level when translated into multiple languages. Therefore, the Spanish version of the same measure cannot be identical to the English version of the same measure in terms of content validity and construction validity. Accommodations are there for numerous reasons. It can help the student understand the lesson, help the student complete the assignments, improve their English, and make them feel included. One accommodation that we can offer is having the student illustrate the concept instead of writing the answer. Pictures are universal. Another accommodation is having the
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