Lauren Hamnett Sydni Ross Ashley Holt Nicole Smith

“Assess what you teach, the way you teach it.” – test and assessment should be apart of the same process, should work together to promote students’ learning.

1. Performance-based assessments: Many schools are required to use standardized tests with ELLs. Teachers need to be aware of important issues (do they assess literacy development or language development? Results may be influenced from cultural background. Students get upset when asked to perform beyond their abilities).

2. English language proficiency tests Assessed learners’ and schools’ progress towards meeting standards. 3. Holistic measures Provides sub-scores of specific skills, very useful to understand how a learners’ reading develops. Time consuming and individually administered.

4. Widely-used assessments of specific literacy skills 5. Assessments from a reading ELD program 6. Teacher-developed assessments 7. Reading skills test  Publisher made reading assessments  Teacher made reading assessments  Student self-assessment

 Stay up to date on assignments. Learn & review material as it is taught each day.  Understand the material as it is taught, so you don’t have to re-learn it or cram the night before.  At the end of each unit, make flashcards of what was most important from the text.  Analyze past tests to see what areas you need improvement.

1. Be sure you have studied properly. 2. Get enough sleep the night before the test. 3. Listen carefully to the instructions given. 4. Read through the test first. 5. Focus on each individual question. 6. Relax. 7. If time allows, double check your work.

Pearson Custom Education: Developing literary: LITR New York: Pearson Learning Solutions. Teens Health. (2012). Retrieved from: s/school/testing_tips.html