Guidance for the classroom-based assessment of multilingual learners: assessing languages, literacies and learning across the curriculum

This publication begins with an introduction to the assets and capabilities of multilingual learners, along with a description of how learning outcomes can be linked to assessment. It is divided into four several sections.  Section 1 Guiding principles for planning  and  assessing learning  in  multilingual schools  and  classrooms; Section 2  Strategies for classroom-based assessment of  emergent  multilingual learners;  Section 3 The practical strategies for assessment serve diagnostic, formative and  summative purposes, are  organized  according to  speaking  and listening  language  skills, reading  and writing language skills, and curricular content other than language, such  as  mathematics and  the sciences. Section 4 concludes with a summary of  general  guidelines and  recommendations  for assessing multilingual learners. At the end are a glossary of terms and concepts, along with five country case studies of multilingual education assessment