2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jan 28, 2025  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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ESL 403 - Second Language Testing and Assessment

Provides a theoretical and practical understanding of current views of second language testing; investigates the various forms of testing and assessment in general, as well as in each of the four skill areas: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Prerequisites: ESL 300 and 301. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Explain the purposes of assessment of English Language Learners (ELLs).
  2. Explain the ways in which the information yielded by various formal and informal measures can be used to make instructional decisions for ELLs.
  3. Design standards-based classroom assessment instruments.
  4. Describe the screening, identification, placement, review, and exit process for ELLs in New York State.
  5. Identify and address the unique needs of ELLs with special education needs.



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