Assessing English Language Learners (Student Assessment Series)

Have you been told which standards to address in your classes? Then you'll want to know the four steps to follow to organize your content, plan which assessments to use, organize your grade book, and redesign your report card.

Where do you begin to help your students using standards? By thinking about external tests and performance tasks and portfolios. This book describes two distinct approaches to using standards in the classroom-direct, in which a specific set of standards is mandated for each class or subject, and indirect, in which teachers have more flexibility in teaching and assessing standards in their classroom due to the nature of external tests. "