teacher training

Consequences and Validity of Performance Assessment for English Language Learners: Integrating Academic Language and ELL Instructional Needs into Opportunity to Learn Measures

Equity Issues
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
Zenaida Aguirre-Munoz
Christy Kim Boscardin
Barbara Jones
Jae-Eun Park
Marjorie Chinen
Hye Sook Shin
Janet Lee
Anastasia Aimee Amabisca
Aprile Benner
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The primary focus of this study was to investigate process and content opportunities that are particularly relevant to improving English Language Learner (ELL) achievement with particular attention to the relationship between opportunities to acquire academic language and ELL achievement on...

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Framework For Designing A Performance Task

Task Templates and Design Process
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), Asia Society, Stanford University School Redesign Network
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This resource provides a detailed guide on how to train teachers to formally score student performance assessment work that has been submitted for a grade, as a part of graduation portfolio requirement, for a diploma endorsement, or as part of a college application (summative purposes...

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Teacher Leadership & Deeper Learning for All Students

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Center for Teaching Quality
Barnett Berry
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This paper is about transforming how students learn and lead by re-evaluating the systems that govern teacher learning and leadership.  By integrating a variety of research evidence and narratives, the author examines current reforms' limitations, explore deeper learning’s promise, and summarize...

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Student-Centered Schools: Policy Supports for Closing the Opportunity Gap

Equity Issues
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Diane Friedlaender
Linda Darling-Hammond
Jon Snyder
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This policy brief describes how four student-centered high schools support student success. In addition, it recommends policy strategies that could sustain schools like these on a much broader scale, so that they become the norm rather than the exception.  The four high schools featured in this...

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