Research Publications

This book offers comprehensive background information about the generation of standards-based, English language proficiency (ELP) assessments. The book is intended to be a useful resource for researchers, graduate students, test developers, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in learning more about large-scale, standards-based ELP assessments for K–12 EL students.

Released January 2020

This chapter presents an overview of recent research into the assessment of young second or foreign language learners and reviews relevant theoretical perspectives and empirical studies. It describes the unique characteristics of young learners and discusses the challenges presented when testing these learners whose first language literacy and cognition are still developing.

Released January 2020

This chapter shares the findings and materials from a pilot of a professional development approach that offered science teachers a set of resources to help facilitate students’ collaborative and discourse-rich reasoning in science. Educators will find resources and insights to help enact the 3-D vision of science in ways that include the number of English learners in United States classrooms. 

Released January 2017

This book explores academic literacy and how its development can be assessed in adolescent multilingual students. The contributing authors provide divergent definitions of academic literacies and use dissimilar theoretical and methodological approaches to study literacy development. Nevertheless, all chapters reflect a shared conceptual framework for examining academic literacies as situated, overlapping, meaning-making practices.

Released January 2015

This book provides practical strategies to implement a unique process for formative assessment. This book, which is a result of work completed during the Carnegie Corportation grant FLARE project, demonstrates what good language assessment for formative purposes is, explains the cycle of formative language assessment, and shows how it unfolds stage-by-stage in a school setting. 

Released January 2015