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Download full textHeritage, Margaret; Wylie, Caroline – National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners at WestEd, 2021
The Comprehensive Assessment System (CAS) Framework presents a vision for a system of assessments for English Learners in secondary grades that brings assessment closer to the classroom and fully involves teachers in assessment development and validation. The CAS Framework is intended to signal a new and equitable direction and to provoke…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Language Learners, Student Evaluation, Models
Wylie, Caroline; Heritage, Margaret – National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners at WestEd, 2021
The Comprehensive Assessment System (CAS) Framework presents a vision for a system of assessments for English Learners in secondary grades that brings assessment closer to the classroom and fully involves teachers in assessment development and validation. The CAS Framework is intended to signal a new and equitable direction and to provoke…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Secondary School Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedFoghahaee, Zahra – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
Reverse engineering (RE) can play an important role in the re-designing tests in L2 English. It can also enrich the aim of teaching the same as raising children through academic achievement. In addition, it can play a key role in helping students understand how much their test is valid by using Standard reverse engineering (SRE). This paper is a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Direct linkDolan, Robert P.; Burling, Kelly; Harms, Michael; Strain-Seymour, Ellen; Way, Walter; Rose, David H. – Pearson, 2013
The increased capabilities offered by digital technologies offer new opportunities to evaluate students' deeper knowledge and skills and on constructs that are difficult to measure using traditional methods. Such assessments can also incorporate tools and interfaces that improve accessibility for diverse students, as well as inadvertently…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Access to Education, Evaluation Methods
Boals, Timothy; Kenyon, Dorry M.; Blair, Alissa; Cranley, M. Elizabeth; Wilmes, Carsten; Wright, Laura J. – Review of Research in Education, 2015
In conducting this review, we examine literature that explores the merits and shortcomings of ELP test design and testing as they have evolved over time through the current era of CCR standards. In the first section, we situate the role of language testing in its broader historical and policy context. In the second section, we examine the evolving…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Tests
Farmer, Ella – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the current educational climate, school districts and states are being held accountable for the progress of all students. Students who speak another language at home and have limited English proficiency, known as English Language Learners (ELLs), continue to underperform when compared to English proficient peers. The purpose of the study was to…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Carney, Megan Strawsine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This paper describes the confirmatory factor analysis, validity, and reliability data collection stage of the development of a scale to measure mainstream teachers' self-efficacy beliefs for teaching ELL (English Language Learner) students. Data were collected from 708 K through 12 teachers and pre-service teachers with varying degrees of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English Instruction, Rating Scales, Test Reliability
