• CAL Staff Presentations at AAAL 2024

    Less Commonly Taught Language Courses in U.S. Community Colleges: A National Review Although community colleges are consistently more likely to serve historically-minoritized students (Nagano et al., 2017) and better reflect the diversity of their local communities when compared to other types of institutions of higher education (Cohen et al., 2013), little is known about the ... Read more

  • CAL Staff Presentations at COABE

    Transitioning Toward Excellence: Advancing Adult English Language Learning Through BEST Assessments Presenters: Anna Zilberberg Elyssa Sun

  • CAL Staff Presentations at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

    From Focus Groups to Classroom Practices: Building Multilingual Multimodal Formative Assessment Activities with Educator-Researchers and Multilingual Students Date:  March 20-23, 2024 Learn findings from multilingual student/family focus groups designed to show how MLs demonstrate what they know in science and what is shared about science instruction/assessment with families. Presenters: Dr Keira Ballantyne, Center for Applied ... Read more

  • CAL Staff Presentations at TESOL International Convention & Expo

    Understanding Multilingual Student and Family Perspectives on Science Instruction Learn the findings from multilingual student and family focus groups designed to demonstrate how multilingual students showcase their knowledge in science, and what information is shared with families about science instruction and assessment. The main goals of this work are to enhance and broaden family engagement, ... Read more

  • CAL Staff Presentations at NABE

    Exemplary Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs: What does it take? Date and Time: March 27, 2024, 1:30–2:20 p.m Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs provide language and content instruction in English and a partner language with the goal of promoting high academic achievement, bilingualism and biliteracy, and socio-cultural competence. While there is considerable evidence about ... Read more

  • CAL Staff Presentations at AERA

    Constructing a formative assessment with multilingual student and family users: An innovative focus group protocol Conference Dates: April 11–14, 2024 Presenters: Dr. Keira Ballantyne, Center for Applied Linguistics Ivanna Mann Thrower Anderson, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Dr. Amy Burden, Center for Applied Linguistics Brittany York, Center for Applied Linguistics We will report on ... Read more