Performance Assessment Tips, Part 2

Here are the other four suggestions to help you create an appropriate performance assessment:

1. Whether ELLs will be able to connect their cultural backgrounds and experiences to what is expected in the learning task

2. Whether the assessment tasks are multidimensional in ways that accommodate different culturally based cognitive styles and modes of representing knowledge and understanding

3. Whether the ELLs have had experience with the format of the learning task or assessment

4. The types of accommodations that are needed for ELLs to have the same opportunities as other students to demonstrate what they know and can do