Dear Workplace list subscribers,
 
Here's another posting on the issue of assessment in the workplace for the crosslist discussion on workplace and Adult ESL.
 
Lynda Terrill
lterrill at cal.org
 

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From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of sandra fugate
Sent: Wed 9/20/2006 11:14 AM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: [EnglishLanguage 676] Re: Curriculum, materials, ASSESSMENT



Janet,

I am also interested in how you used the BEST
test(s).  We currently use all three BEST tests in
Tennessee.  We have difficulty showing level gains
using BEST in workplace settings since we often find
that employers want short-term classes that produce
unrealistic results.  .  I would like to know which
test(s) you used.

Thanks,
Sandra Fugate, ESOL PD Coordinator
UT Center for Literacy Studies



--- Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis at brown.edu> wrote:


> One quick thing ­ and apologies if this has been

> mentioned ­ I¹m sorting

> through a huge pile of messages from multiple lists.

>

> When I taught ESOL to university maintenance

> workers, I used a time1, time 2

> survey to assess one piece of the overall progress.

> I¹d asked supervisors

> what they thought workers needed to learn, where

> improvement was needed and

> then, after the first module (about 8 weeks) asked

> if there had been any

> progress in those areas.  So, for example, it would

> look something like that

>

> Workers write better / clearer work orders         

>        not at all

> somewhat           very much

>

> Fewer mistakes are made in following work orders

>

> etc, etc.

>

> Based on whatever it is the learners or the

> funders/employers set as goals,

> this survey provides one piece of the larger

> assessment picture.  We also

> used the BEST test to gauge language progress ­

> insofar as a test can give

> that information after a relatively short

> instructional stretch (4

> hours/week over 8 weeks)

>

> Janet Isserlis

>

>

>

> From: Sharon McKay <smckay at cal.org>

> Reply-To: The Adult English Language Learners

> Discussion List

> <englishlanguage at nifl.gov>

> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:24:43 -0400

> To: <englishlanguage at nifl.gov>

> Conversation: Curriculum, materials, ASSESSMENT

> Subject: [EnglishLanguage 660]  Curriculum,

> materials, ASSESSMENT

>

> Now for evaluation, or 'the needs and expectations

> of funders' ---  progress

> is a lot more difficult to measure easily in the

> workplace.  Many of our ESL

> tools for assessment are inadequate at the K-12 and

> adult education level.

> Workplace ESL throws more variables into the mix.

> Funders, be they

> government or private, must have rationale for

> refunding.

>

> I'm curious about what instruments people are using

> in current Working

> English Language Programs to measure progress in

> English language learners.

>

> Do you like the instruments you are using?  Why or

> why not?

>

> >

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