New Blog Series Asks Major Questions Around Assessment Themes Inside the Language Classroom

Check out the Multilingual Mysteries Blog Series from the Center for Applied Linguistics.

The series is penned by Margo Gottlieb, who has devoted her professional career to improving educational opportunities for multilingual learners. In the posts, Margo delves into “Multilingual Mysteries” around the topic of classroom assessment. Every other week, she poses different scenarios to readers to consider and vote on.

Here are her most recent blogs posts:

• Is it counterintuitive to assess in multiple languages when accountability rests in English?

• Is it equitable to have the same grading policy for all students, including multilingual learners?

• Do translations and transadaptations of tests into languages other than English serve as equity tools for assessing multilingual learners?

• To Translanguage or Not To Translanguage?

• Should multimodalities be incorporated into testing and assessment for multilingual learners?

• How can we offset "COVID slide" for multilingual learners through classroom assessment?

• Should we expand or diminish the role of assessment for multilingual learners?