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Less Commonly Taught Language Courses in U.S. Community Colleges: A National Review Although community colleges are consistently more likely to serve historically-minoritized students (Nagano et al., 2017) and better reflect the diversity of their local communities when compared to other types of institutions of higher education (Cohen et al., 2013), little is known about the ... Read more

Transitioning Toward Excellence: Advancing Adult English Language Learning Through BEST Assessments Presenters: Anna Zilberberg Elyssa Sun

From Focus Groups to Classroom Practices: Building Multilingual Multimodal Formative Assessment Activities with Educator-Researchers and Multilingual Students Date:  March 20-23, 2024 Learn findings from multilingual student/family focus groups designed to show how MLs demonstrate what they know in science and what is shared about science instruction/assessment with families. Presenters: Dr Keira Ballantyne, Center for Applied ... Read more

Understanding Multilingual Student and Family Perspectives on Science Instruction Learn the findings from multilingual student and family focus groups designed to demonstrate how multilingual students showcase their knowledge in science, and what information is shared with families about science instruction and assessment. The main goals of this work are to enhance and broaden family engagement, ... Read more

Exemplary Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs: What does it take? Date and Time: March 27, 2024, 1:30–2:20 p.m Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs provide language and content instruction in English and a partner language with the goal of promoting high academic achievement, bilingualism and biliteracy, and socio-cultural competence. While there is considerable evidence about ... Read more

Integrating MST Simulation Factors into Automated Test Assembly Presenters: Yu Lan Su, Center for Applied Linguistics Hong Chen, University of Iowa Enhancing Test Security: Utilizing Parallel MST Pools for Effective MST Panel Assembly Presenters: Yu Lan Su, Center for Applied Linguistics Hong Chen, University of Iowa Evaluation of Vertical Scaling for the Alternate English Language ... Read more

Exploring the relationship between oral proficiency test scores and external language proficiency measures (Poster) Presenters: Yage Leah Guo Elyssa Wen Sun Reshmi Kumpakha Leslie Fink Rachel Myers Integrating Increased Rigor in Effective Adult ESL Speaking Assessment Task Design Presenters: Elyssa Wen Sun Kristine Nugent   Design of an Oral Proficiency Assessment  Presenters: Yage Leah Guo ... Read more