| This webinar will present key ideas about the use of formative assessment with English Learners to increase their academic achievement. Robert Anderson, Senior Assessment Specialist at WestEd, will focus on the systemic use of formative assessment to enhance learning opportunities for English Learners. Margaret Heritage, Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, will draw from her new book, Formative Assessment for Literacy: Building Reading and Academic Language Across the Curriculum, to discuss ways in which formative assessment can assist teachers working with English Learners to develop skills in academic language. |
| Related Archived events by SchoolsMovingUp Using Formative Assessments to Improve the Achievement of All Students: Key Policy Questions and Practical Decisions (Parts I & II)
Archived events co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners):
Building Oral Language into the Basal with Diane August, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics
Making Standards-Based Lessons Understandable for English Learners with Jana Echevarria, Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach
Learning All-Purpose Academic Words with Catherine Snow, Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Findings from the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth with Diane August, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics
Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent ELLs with Deborah Short, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Applied Linguistics
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