Implementing Alternative Performance-Based Assessment at a Classroom Level MITESOL 2002 Workshop © Janet Payne

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State Resources *California EL Civics Website http://www.cde.ca.gov/adulteducation/supplement_progs/elciv_index.html Get the program deliverables, forms and instructions, especially 1-3. Michigan EL Civics Website http://www.state.mi.us/career/adulteducation/funding/englishLitFGO.htm Texas EL Civics Website http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/elcweb/Overview/o_A.htm Also see Texas - article-"Teaching Beyond Citizenship" http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/win02/win02a.htm and a book the author recommends, Nash, Andy (Ed.) (1999). Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook: A Resource for Adult Educators, Boston: New England Literacy Resource Center. (order info. on website.) National Resources * ERIC: Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed395500.html ERIC: Q and A: Civic Education for Adult English Language Learners http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/civics.htm ERIC: Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments http://ericae.net/db/edo/ED381985.htm CASAS: Website http://www.casas.org *CASAS: Biblio. of Citizenship Materials -To access this free download, go through the CASAS website, http://www.casas.org, click on "Downloads", click on "CASAS General," and scroll down. It's a .pdf document. CASAS: Correlation Chart for CASAS and California Model Standards http://www.casas.org/ModelStds/corrintro.cfm?wtarget=body&selected_id=246 NCLE: National Center for ESL Literacy Education's Resource Collections: Civics Education for Adult English Language Learners http://www.cal.org/ncle/REScivics.htm NCLE: EL/Civics Activities for Adults article: ESL Activities for African-American History Month http://www.cal.org/ncle/civics/AAmon.htm TESOL website, especially the program standards for Adult Education ESL http://www.tesol.org/ and see http://www.tesol.org/pubs/catalog/standards.html - 52000 U.S. Dept. of Education's EL Civics page http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/AdultEd/ELCIVICS/index.html Also see http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/AdultEd/englit.html Other Resources Civic Participation and Citizenship Collection - This is a great resource for websites from New England Literacy Resource Center http://www.nelrc.org/cpcc/elcivics.htm Children's Literature with Social Studies Themes, Civics Education - Books can be used with adult ESL, http://www.udel.edu/dssep/literature.html Holt, Daniel D. and Carol H. Van Duzer, Eds., Assessing Success in Family Literacy and Adult ESL, Revised Edition, Joint ERIC and CAL Publication (Available on the web at Amazon.) Secondary Assessment Tools (Good source of rubrics and scoring descriptors - See BCPS Research Modules) http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/assess_sec.html Materials See ESL/ELT Resources See also the author's website, www.soundsentences.com.