Is bilingual literacy benchmark testing necessary?
Friday, February 8, 2019 at 10:00 AM–11:00 AM EST
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Strand
Strand I: Pedagogy & Assessment
Immersion/Partner Language(s)
French
Level
Elementary (K-5)
Program Summary/Abstract Description
This presentation focuses on a study carried out in a French immersion charter school on the scores first-graders obtained on two reading benchmark tests, the DIBELS and its equivalent in French, the IDAPEL. A statistical analysis of the results shows a strong correlation between the scores on the two tests for all the categories of reading predictors and indicate that the students’ level of French can account for some of the score differences observed between the two tests. This study thus questions the necessity of conducting two separate reading benchmark tests and offers insights to educators on reading remediation strategies.
Lead Presenter
Charles A Mignot, Tulane University
Role/Title
Professor of Practice
Co-Presenters
Sophie Capmartin, MA, Ecole Bilingue
Role/Title
Resource Coodinator