ESSAY : Explain at least two ways to check your assessment for bias…

1. In 3 paragraphs, explain at least two ways to check your assessment for bias and then discuss how to best accommodate an ESOL student on an assessment. Be sure to support your response with detail and examples.

2. Two teachers are having a discussion about assessing their ESOL students. Teacher A thinks that the best way to accommodate her student is to translate everything into the student\’s native language so that the student can understand what is being asked of her. Teacher B thinks that the best way to accommodate her ESOL student is to provide loads of pictures and visuals along with content-specific words in English. In 3-4 paragraphs, discuss which teacher you agree with and state why you agree with that teacher. Be specific and support your response with examples.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

ESOL
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is an approach that is followed by instructors in teaching students whose first language is not English. Emphasizing on academic and social language development of students, the ESOL curriculum is based on standards included in English Language Development (ELD) framework. The ESOL approach defines standards that are to be followed in teaching and student assessment (Edwards, 2016).
Question 1
We can examine a test for bias through several ways. One such method tests for content-validity bias. Occurring when examination content is notably more difficult for a group of students, bias arises if members of a group have not had the same opportunity to grasp the material that is being examined. Moreover, if the examiner uses unfair means of scoring or uses language that cannot be understood by ELLs. We can check for this bias by determining that all questions are understandable by students from various groups. If the students are required to choose from a list of items, then we can assess for bias by…