This course is designed to help future and current teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse elementary school students to (1) understand, develop, and implement a range of effective, practical strategies for
assessing and documenting the academic
achievement of their students, including English
Learners, students with identified / unidentified exceptionalities, and students eligible for free or reduced price lunch (TPEs 1.1, 2.2, 3.5, 4.4, and 5.1 - 5.8); (2) develop the skills and habits of mind necessary to use assessment results to plan effective instruction for every student (TPEs 3.5, 4.4, and 5.1 - 5.8); (3) learn how to present and discuss assessment results with other education professionals and with students» parents (TPEs 1.2, 2.6, 3.2, 4.5, 5.1 - 5.8).
This report examines the progress in raising
achievement for English language
learner (ELL) students, and it describes the factors that make it difficult to accurately
assess what ELL students know and can do.