10C) Variety of formative assessments
Draw from a variety of formative assessment tools (e.g., observations of child’s oral language, portfolios of written work, comprehension focused questions or tasks, etc.) to monitor progress
Video: Assessment of Dual Language Learners
This video helps educators answer the question: "What do I need to consider when assessing Multilingual Learners?" The goal of assessment is to understand what the child knows; for ML children, educators need to consider all of the languages that the child speaks to fully assess their development and learning.Read More
Template: Oral Language Analysis—K-3rd
A template designed to guide the analysis of student's oral language record to identify follow-up instruction they can provide during upcoming Designated ELD time.Read More
Video: Oral Language Analysis—K-3rd
In this video, the teacher gathers a small group of Multilingual Learners to engage in a brief discussion in response to structured prompts regarding an artifact from the class' ongoing content learning. The teacher records each child's oral responses, and then analyzes the record to identify follow-up instruction they can provide during upcoming Designated ELD time.Read More
Video: Model Curriculum for English Learners – Family Stories (1st grade)
This video captures a lesson for Multilingual Learners co-taught by a first-grade teacher and an ELD teacher. The teachers share how they intentionally plan to both teach and assess the English language within the content lesson.Read More
Video: Using an ELD Portfolio to Guide Instruction and Monitor Progress
In this video, a first-grade teacher talks through her thinking as she uses an ELD portfolio for Multilingual Learners in her class. She discusses how a portfolio helps guide her instruction and determine language supports for students.Read More
Guide: Formative Assessment Considerations
This resource offers a list of questions that the teacher can consider to structure more opportunities for formative assessment of language inside of classroom activities.Read More
Strategy Overview: Talk Moves
This resource offers specific teacher language to use in order to facilitate and structure classroom discussions. These talk moves help create quality opportunities for Multilingual Learners to practice and use oral language.Read More
Website: DRDP Measures – How Might It Look?
This website provides examples and videos of children's behaviors that align with several items and domains of the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP). Educators can use these videos to help them determine children’s developmental levels by exploring how their skills and behaviors change as they learn and grow.Read More
Video: DRDP Tutorials
This video playlist provides a series of tutorial videos for educators who are using the California Department of Education's Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP). In the videos, educators will be guided through conducting observations of children, documenting those observations, and completing the DRDP.Read More
Video: DRDP Microlearning for Teachers
This video playlist provides a series of tutorial videos for teachers using the California Department of Education's Desired Results Developmental Profile online system. Teachers can refer to these tutorial videos to use the online system, create and use reports of children's progress, and learn how to share reports with families.Read More
Video: DRDP Microlearning for Administrators
This video playlist provides a series of tutorial videos for administrators using the California Department of Education's Desired Results Developmental Profile online system. Administrators can refer to these tutorial videos to manage their program's enrollment information, monitor children's progress and assessments, and plan for instructional support using classroom reports.Read More
Video: Watching My Child Grow
This video playlist provides an introduction to the California Department of Education's Desired Results Assessment System and its benefits for all children and families. These videos are available in English, Spanish, and Mandarin.Read More
Tip Sheet: Instructionally Embedded Assessment
This resource describes how educators can draw from a variety of formative assessment tools to assess Multilingual Learners’ language progress. This resource highlights the importance of continually observing what children are able to do across time and in a variety of ways.Read More
Webinar: Measuring What All Children Can Do in All Languages
In this webinar, presenters discuss the trajectory of bilingual development and important considerations for assessing Multilingual Learners. The webinar provides guidance around using a variety of formative assessment tools, using summative assessment, and assessing children in their home language.Read More
Article: Assessing Young Dual Language Learners
This article introduces ideas for formative assessment, as well as key questions for teachers to ask themselves when assessing Multilingual Learners. The third page of the article offers five practical ways that teachers can develop their own assessment skills.Read More
Strategy Overview: Oral Language Analysis
In this formative assessment, the teacher gathers 1-4 Multilingual Learners to engage in a brief discussion in response to structured prompts regarding an artifact from the class' ongoing content learning. The teacher records each child's oral responses, and then analyzes the record to identify follow-up instruction they can provide during upcoming Designated ELD time.Read More
Strategy Overview: Performance-based Assessment
Both formative and summative assessments are critical to understanding the language development and content learning of Multilingual Learners. This document offers a variety of instructional ideas for all types of assessment tasks.Read More
