This Center for Applied Linguistics webinar provides an overview of how to use multilingualism as a tool for meaningful assessment. Learn from experts Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Professor of Education Research Methodology at UNC and CAL Board Trustee, and Ivanna Mann Thrower Anderson, ML/Title III Consultant with the NC Department of Public Instruction. Moderated by Liying Cheng, Professor and Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Group at Queen’s University, and Kia Johnson, Director of Pre-K–12 Language and Literacy at CAL, this webinar will offer tips for incorporating multilingualism into assessment modalities. Hear what research says about assessing language skills, resources for creating assessment tools, and tips for incorporating multilingualism into assessment modalities. The session also includes examples of multilingual assessment and a discussion of best practices for assessment.
Slides Shared during the Presentation
Helpful External Resources
- Conceptualizing the Use of Translanguaging in Initial Content Assessments for Newly Arrived Emergent Bilingual Students
- Multilingual Learner (ML) Success Project
- Multilingual Testing Constructs: Theoretical Foundations
- The Construct of Multilingualism in Language Testing
- Language Testing for Migrants: Co-Constructing Validation
- Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments
Helpful CAL Resources
- How Can Multilingual Learners and Their Teachers Make a Difference in Classroom Assessment?
- PD for Educators of MLs – Assessment and Evaluation for Language Learners: Principles and Classroom Practices
- To Translanguage or Not To Translanguage?
- Multilingual Learner (ML) Success Project
Related Professional Development from CAL
PD for Educators of MLs – Assessment and Evaluation for Language Learners: Principles and Classroom Practices
