Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Educators

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The following downloadable Resource pages correspond to each chapter of Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages (Gottlieb, 2021) and, in large part, mirror the phases of the assessment cycle. Each resource is intended for use, along with the book, as a springboard for in-depth discussion and consensus building for teams of teachers and other school leaders, language and content partners, teachers and multilingual learners, or professional learning communities.

Defining Multilingual Learners and Purposes for Assessment in Multiple Languages

Resource 1.1 for Teachers with their Multilingual Learners: Our Classroom Language and Assessment Policy 

Resource 1.2 for Multilingual Learners: My Language Policy

Resource 1.3 for Multilingual Learners: My Personal Portrait 

Resource 1.4 for Multilingual Learners and Their Teachers: My Classroom Portrait 

Resource 1.5 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: My Use of Assessment as, for, and of Learning

Getting Started with Assessment in Multiple Languages

Resource 2.1 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: A Planning Sheet for Assessment in Multiple Languages 

Resource 2.2 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: Planning the Flow of Assessment Data for Multilingual Learners Throughout the School Year 

Resource 2.3 for Multilingual Learners: My Multilingual Language Portrait 

Resource 2.4 for Multilingual Learners: A Sample Oral Language Use Survey for Multilingual Learners 

Resource 2.5 for Multilingual Learners: A Sample Literacy Survey for Multilingual Learners

Resource 2.6 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: Collecting Oral and Written Language Samples in Multiple Languages

Resource 2.7 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Considerations for Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Checklist and Rating Scale

Figure 2.1 A Multi-Phase Assessment Cycle for Inclusion of Multiple Languages

Phase 1 of the Assessment Cycle: Planning Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages

Resource 3.1 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Purposes for Classroom Assessment 

Resource 3.2 For Teachers of Multilingual Learners: Connecting Purposes for Assessment, the Final Project, and the First Week’s Lessons 

Resource 3.3 for Teachers and Multilingual Learners: The Connection Among Purposes for Assessment, the Final Project, and the First Week’s Lessons

Resource 3.4 for School Leaders and Teachers: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Assessment in Curriculum Design for Multilingual Learners: A Rating Scale 

Resource 3.5 for Teachers and Coaches: Planning Assessment in Multiple Languages for a Unit of Learning 

Resource 3.6 for Teachers and Multilingual Learners: Planning Assessment in Multiple Languages for a Set of Lessons

Phase 2 of the Assessment Cycle: Collecting & Organizing Assessment Information

Resource 4.1 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: Matching the Purpose for Classroom Assessment With Data 

Resource 4.2 for Instructional Coaches and Teachers: A Checklist for Scaffolding Instruction and Assessment in Multiple Languages

Resource 4.3 for Multilingual Learners: Using Images for Data Collection 

Resource 4.4 for Teachers and Multilingual Learners: Categorizing Student Samples of Multimodal Communication and Multiliteracies as Assessment as, for, and of Learning 

Resource 4.5 for Teachers of Multilingual Learners: An Inventory of Receptive Language Activities 

Resource 4.6 for Multilingual Learners: When I Listen, Read, and View

Resource 4.7 for Teachers of Multilingual Learners: An Inventory of Activities for Speaking, Writing, and Illustrating

Resource 4.8 for Older Multilingual Learners: When I Speak, Write, and Illustrate

Resource 4.9 for Teachers of Multilingual Learners: Collecting and Organizing Receptive and Productive Data in Multiple Languages 

Resource 4.10 for Teachers and Multilingual Learners: Collecting Language Samples of Representing Assessment as, for, and of Learning 

Phase 3 of the Assessment Cycle: Interpreting Information and Providing Feedback

Resource 5.1 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: Collecting and Recording Information on Multilingual Learners’ Language, Literacy, and Translanguaging Practices

Resource 5.2 for Instructional Leaders and Older Multilingual Learners: Students Milestones Based on Observational Notes

Resource 5.3 for Multilingual Learners: A Rating Scale for Interpreting Text in Multiple Languages

Resource 5.4 for Multilingual Learners: How I Learn 

Phase 4 of the Assessment Cycle: Evaluating and Reporting Assessment Information

Resource 6.1 for Multilingual Learners: A Rating Scale for Evaluating Assessment Tasks and Tests

Resource 6.2 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Analyzing Grading Practices and Policies of Multilingual Learners in Multiple Languages

Resource 6.3 for Teachers and Multilingual Learners: Think-Aloud Questions for Building Metacognitive Awareness 

Resource 6.4 for Multilingual Learners: A Self-Evaluation Tool

Resource 6.5 for Multilingual Learners: Language, Conceptual, and Social-Emotional Development for a Unit of Learning

Phase 5 of the Assessment Cycle: Taking Action Based on Assessment Results

Resource 7.1 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: Making Assessment Plans for Assessment in Multiple Languages

Resource 7.2 for Teachers and Other Instructional Leaders: Assessment as, for, and of Learning for Multiple Languages Throughout the Assessment Cycle

Resource 7.3 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Engaging in Action Research

Resource 7.4 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Taking Action Classroom by Classroom 

Resource 7.5 for Multilingual Learners: What Students Can Do: Taking Action Based on Classroom Assessment Results

Resource 7.6 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Taking Action on Behalf of Multilingual Learners

Resource 7.7 for Teachers and Other School Leaders: Taking Action Based on Assessment Result