Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement;

Build the bridges for English language learners to reach success!

This thoroughly updated edition of Gottlieb’s classic delivers a complete set of tools, techniques, and ideas for planning and implementing instructional assessment of ELLs. The book includes:

• A focus on academic language use in every discipline, from mathematics to social studies, within and across language domains
• Emphasis on linguistically and culturally responsive assessment as a key driver for measuring academic achievement
• A reconceptualization of assessment "as," "for," and "of" learning 
• Reflection questions to stimulate discussion around how students, teachers, and administrators can all have a voice in decision making