Assessment and Evaluation in Bilingual Education

Margarita Machado-Casas, Saúl Maldonado, Belinda Flores, Yolanda Medina, Margarita Machado-Casas

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781433187025
  9781433187018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781433186981
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Evaluating bilingual education programs requires assessing students' bilingualism, biliteracy and sociocultural competence. This book documents how dual language programs in the United States implement institutional policies and instructional practices for evaluating program quality and measuring student achievement. Literature consistently identifies seven guiding principles, with associated criteria, for implementing quality dual language programs: (a) program structure, (b) curriculum, (c) instruction, (d) assessment and accountability, (e) staff quality and professional development, (f) family and community and (g) support and resources. Emphasizing the assessment and accountability strand of quality dual language programs, this book provides policymakers, practitioners, as well as family and community members, explicit guidance around assessment and evaluation in bilingual/dual language settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword (José Medina)
• Preface
• Introduction Bilingual Education/​Dual Language Assessment and Evaluation Principles: A Decolonial Approach for Practitioners and Policymakers (Margarita Machado-​Casas / Belinda Bustos Flores / Saúl I. Maldonado)
• Evaluation Processes for Bilingual Education
• Equitable and Fair Assessment Systems for Bilingual Education/​ Dual Language Learners
• Developing Bilingual/​Dual Language Educators’ Assessment
• Measuring Bilingualism, Biliteracy and Sociocultural Competence
• Appendices
• List of California’s State Standards and Frameworks for Sociocultural Competence Considerations (Veronica Johnson / Janet Gabriela Cariño Ramsay / Saúl I. Maldonado)
• Activities for Evaluating Mathematics Learning in Dual Language Programs (Kip Téllez)
• Considerations Before Special Education Recommendations for Bilingual Students (Felicia Castro-​Villarreal / Victor Villarreal / Ileana Umaña)
• Training Sequence for IEP Committee Professional Development (Felicia Castro-​Villarreal / Victor Villarreal / Ileana Umaña)
• Critical Points for Collaboration in the Multidisciplinary IEP Committee (Felicia Castro-​Villarreal / Victor Villarreal / Ileana Umaña)
• Receptive and Expressive Language Pre-Referral Protocol for Bilingual Learners (RELPP-BL) (Janelle Beth Flores / Karla C. Garza / T. Breanne Rochester / Yvonne Vera / Belinda Bustos Flores)
• Process for Engaging Teachers in Collaborative Rubric Design for Biliterate Writing (Leslie C. Banes)
• MALLI Classroom Observation Protocol (Marco A. Bravo / Eduardo Mosqueda / Jorge L. Solís)
• Attitudes Towards Teaching Science to Bilingual Learners Instrument (ATTS-BL) Instrument (Tiberio Garza / Margarita Huerta / Julie K. Jackson)
• Diversity-Differentiated Assessments Template (Xochitl Archey)
• AMWAS Administration Guidelines/Guía de administración de la evaluación AMWAS (Eduardo Mosqueda / Marco A. Bravo / Jorge L. Solís / Saúl I. Maldonado)
• List of Contributors
• Index