Mid-Illini Educational Cooperative
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Course Description:
This course explores the legal history and politics surrounding language assessment and the different test structures and methods used to assess English language learners. Participants will examine how standardized tests are used to measure language proficiency and academic achievement. With that framework in place, participants will explore how to specifically assess listening, speaking, reading, and writing, both individually and in an integrated fashion. Participants will also examine test taking issues and strategies and will look at how technology can be used in assessment. Special needs students will also be addressed.
Course Objectives: Participants will
- Understand technical concepts about testing: accountability and standardized achievement tests; normed and criterion-referenced tests; validity and reliability; language proficiency; and authentic/performance-based assessment evaluation.
- Distinguish among traditional vs other test formats, and will have cognitive knowledge of the key strengths and weaknesses of traditional formats, and key test-taking strategies for ELLs.
- Identify common characteristics of informal assessments, use a model for organizing classroom assessment, and be familiar with some common types of informal/classroom assessment.
- Understand the process of creating and evaluating portfolios to assess English Language Learners, and apply rubrics to reading, writing, listening, and speaking tasks.
- Understand the concept of integration of language skills, and be able to describe common methods of assessing reading, writing, listening and speaking, and a variety of ways of eliciting speech for assessment.
Course Description, Enrollment and Pricing
Mid-Illini Educational Cooperative
CE Credits Online and the Mid-Illini Educational Cooperative in partnership are pleased to offer you online professional development courses designed to improve teaching and student achievement.
CPDUs or University Credits Available for All CE Credits Online Courses
Some Districts may require your official transcript to be issued from a college or university recognized by The Higher Learning Commission, a commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is recognized as one of the six regional institutional accreditors in the United States. Please check and if this is a requirement of your district please select Adams State College to receive your academic credits from once you have completed a course. Adams State College is approved by The Higher Learning Commission. University credits may be obtained through Adams State College at the end of the course with an additional fee of $55 per credit.
CPDUs: Continuing Professional Development Units are included in your class fee. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to download and print your CPDU certificate.
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- Supports Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
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Illinois State Information
Illinois Certification Renewal Requirements Approved Illinois Professional Development Provider of CPDUs
Provider Number 101880
CE Credits Online courses and activities support Illinois Professional Teaching Standards and may count towards continuing professional development for certification renewal purposes or for salary advancement at the discretion of the employing district or Regional Superintendent. There are a number of professional development options that meet requirements for renewal: click on the links below to view certificate renewal requirements. Teachers should check with their employing district/or ROE if they are not sure course activities will be accepted for continuing professional development requirements or salary advancement.
Specific guidelines can be found at the following Illinois State Board of Education Web Links:
Certification
Illinois Learning Standards
Student Assessment
Highly Qualified
Procedures for Moving from Initial to Standard-Level Certification
Procedures for Renewing the Standard/Master Certificate
How CE Credits Online Satisfies Illinois Educator Certification Renewal Requirements
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