Teaching English With Standard Tests

Author : Kate Menken
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1853599972
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Learners Left Behind written by Kate Menken and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.

Author : Casper Carl Certain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8U/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching English with Standard Tests written by Casper Carl Certain and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betsy Gilliland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814102947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Teaching to the Test written by Betsy Gilliland and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word accountability is everywhere in education today, but it means different things to different people. Speaking directly to teachers who work closely with English language learners, Betsy Gilliland and Shannon Pella examine essential questions in this age of accountability.

Author : r4Educated Solutions
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 1936765934
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests written by r4Educated Solutions and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that when English language learners understand the vocabulary used on tests, their scores soar—critical information for schools in an age of testing and accountability. This manual provides evidence-based, teacher-friendly lesson plans that will help English language learners deal with unfamiliar language features on standardized test questions. Teaching Your Secondary ELL Students the Academic Language of Tests supports English language arts teachers in grades 6-12 in providing instruction for content-specific language skills. Each lesson plan provides background information for the teacher, implications for high-stakes testing, a list of materials, academic vocabulary, activities, and in many cases, graphic organizers.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309171067
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testing Teacher Candidates written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels for all students. Gaps remain, however, between the nation's educational aspirations and student achievement. To address these gaps, policy makers have recently focused on the qualifications of teachers and the preparation of teacher candidates. This book examines the appropriateness and technical quality of teacher licensure tests currently in use, evaluates the merits of using licensure test results to hold states and institutions of higher education accountable for the quality of teacher preparation and licensure, and suggests alternatives for developing and assessing beginning teacher competence. Teaching is a complex activity. Definitions of quality teaching have changed and will continue to change over time as society's values change. This book provides policy makers, teacher testers, and teacher educators with advice on how to use current tests to assess teacher candidates and evaluate teacher preparation, ensuring that America's youth are being taught by the most qualified candidates.

Author : Michaela Colombo
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412959659
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching English Language Learners written by Michaela Colombo and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book prepares mainstream teachers to provide content instruction to English language learners.

Author : Frank Levy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400845920
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Division of Labor written by Frank Levy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the current recession ends, many workers will not be returning to the jobs they once held--those jobs are gone. In The New Division of Labor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane show how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition to the new job market. The book tells stories of people at work--a high-end financial advisor, a customer service representative, a pair of successful chefs, a cardiologist, an automotive mechanic, the author Victor Hugo, floor traders in a London financial exchange. The authors merge these stories with insights from cognitive science, computer science, and economics to show how computers are enhancing productivity in many jobs even as they eliminate other jobs--both directly and by sending work offshore. At greatest risk are jobs that can be expressed in programmable rules--blue collar, clerical, and similar work that requires moderate skills and used to pay middle-class wages. The loss of these jobs leaves a growing division between those who can and cannot earn a good living in the computerized economy. Left unchecked, the division threatens the nation's democratic institutions. The nation's challenge is to recognize this division and to prepare the population for the high-wage/high-skilled jobs that are rapidly growing in number--jobs involving extensive problem solving and interpersonal communication. Using detailed examples--a second grade classroom, an IBM managerial training program, Cisco Networking Academies--the authors describe how these skills can be taught and how our adjustment to the computerized workplace can begin in earnest.

Author : Stephen Stoynoff
Publisher : Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ESOL Tests and Testing written by Stephen Stoynoff and published by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes how ESOL tests and test users have changed greatly in the past few decades. Some widely used ESOL tests have been revised, with a number of new tests incorporating advances in computer technology. In addition, many more ESOL practitioners than in the past are responsible for selecting and using tests. Stephen Stoynoff and Carol A. Chapelle introduce teachers and administrators to the principles, methods, and vocabulary of language assessment. Twenty-one reviewers of ESOL tests consider test purpose, methods, and justification of their use in particular situations.

Author : C. C. Certain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching English with Standard Tests written by C. C. Certain and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Council of Teachers of English. Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Sense and Testing in English written by National Council of Teachers of English. Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The members of the National Council of Teachers of English believe it is imperative that the public and the profession know what great harm is being done to students by unwarranted faith in standardized tests. The Task Force on Measurement and Evaluation in the Study of English was formed in 1974, and found widespread ignorance about tests among teachers, administrators, school board members, the media, and the public. This booklet is about tests in English language arts, but its analysis of the art of testing has insights for all subjects and subject-matter teachers, as the problems with standardized tests are not unique to one subject area. This information is offered for the benefit of the profession, students, and for the citizens who pay for schools and must judge what educators do.