In this assignment, you will be expected to outline your understanding of assessment of English language learners.
Write a paper addressing the following:
1. Analyze the purpose, goals, and objectives of assessment in relation to the learning process.
2. Analyze teachers’ and learners’ goals in assessment. How can you as an English language learner specialist help achieve the goals of each?
3. Describe the various forms of assessment, including formative, summative, tests, and alternatives in assessment, and analyze them within the framework of their purpose, goals, and specific objectives (placement, language proficiency development, and content learning).
4. Provide your perspective on how a teacher should form final grades. Support your perspective with your professional experience, course readings, and resources, as well as your own research.
5. Provide your perspective on how teachers should communicate learning outcomes, including classroom performance, tests, and final grades, to the students, students’ family (if appropriate), and school administration. Support your perspective with your professional experience, readings, and resources, as well as your own research.
6. Describe your strategies for improving and mastering assessment approaches now and in the future. What is your plan for your professional development in regard to assessment approaches for English language learners?
Your paper should be about 3,000 words and include citations and references in APA format and examples to support your positions.
You must include:
-Thoroughly analyzes the purpose, goals, and objectives of assessment in relation to the learning process of English language learners, well-supported by APA cited examples and references.
– Thoroughly analyzes teachers’ and learners’ goals in assessment, well-supported by APA cited examples and references.
– Thoroughly describes the various forms of assessment including formative, summative, classroom assessments, tests, and alternatives in assessment and thoroughly analyzes them within the framework of their purpose, goals, and specific objectives (placement, language proficiency development, content learning), well-supported by APA cited references and examples.
– Thoroughly analyzes the factors to consider in the design of performance assessment, including multiple scoring approaches.
– Provides a detailed and thorough perspective for how a teacher should form final grades, well-supported with examples and APA cited references.
– Provides a thorough perspective for how teachers should communicate learning outcomes including classroom performance, tests, and final grades to the students, students’ family (if appropriate), and school administration, well-supported by APA cited examples and references.
– Describes thorough strategies for improving and mastering assessment approaches now and in the future.
