The Importance of Assessing Bilingual Students and Utilizing Learning Approaches

Assessing Bilingual Students
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Assessing Bilingual Students
The learning approaches are effective for assessing bilingual students because they are suitable, sustainable, and targeted to provide evidence of what next steps the educator, together with the learner, should make in the learning program. They evaluate bilingual students' complete literacy (reading and writing) development drawing from multiple data sources (Brisk & Harrington, 2015). Each learning strategy is founded on a clear understanding of the literacy skills the educator wants to assess and to what ends. For instance, some learning approaches effectively assess bilingual students' reading skills, including the ability to use context cues, establish meaning, comprehend language structure, infer from the text, use a broad range of materials to identify critical information, and state support an idea.
On the other hand, others are effective for assessing the writing skills of bilingual students, such as the ability to inter...