Rethinking Assessment in Plurilingual Education
Assessment plays a central role in bilingual education with students’ language progress and overall proficiency as well as subject knowledge matter needing to be assessed, usually through a combination of both teacher-created assessment and externally created assessment.
Though assessment of student learning is essential, it is not without challenges and controversy due to the integration of content and language. Questions have arisen concerning the methods and tools which are best suited to assessment in bilingual education as well as the validity and fairness of assessment tools used currently.
Other challenges include the roles/responsibilities of language and content teachers in the assessment of language and the training/resources needed by educators to effectively design assessments for bilingual education contexts and/or evaluate current assessments used.
OUR SPEAKERS
Lucy Crehan, International Education Consultant: Assessment in top-performing education systems
Professor Barry O'Sullivan, Head of Assessment Research and Development, British Council
Dr Ana Llinares, Head English Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Chair: Dr Victoria Clark, Global Assessments Solutions Manager, British Council.
