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Using the Sample Progress Indicators Across Proficiency Levels
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As mentioned earlier, the sample progress indicators are provided to help educators determine how well students are doing. This determination is a local (or state) decision, but the charts on the following pages may guide the understanding of how one progress indicator might be interpreted across grades and English proficiency levels. One chart is presented for each goal. Each chart focuses on one standard and one progress indicator and complements one of the vignettes from each of the three grade-level clusters.
Brief summary statements of the vignettes are identified in the chart. Whereas the vignettes and discussions that appear in full later in the document might be written for one specific proficiency level and several progress indicators, these reference charts reveal ways that the indicators can be applied to students at different proficiency levels so they can demonstrate some progress toward meeting the standard. The charts indicate, as well, some instructional modifications that might facilitate learning for special needs students.
The charts also represent a process that individual schools and states might want to undertake as they benchmark student learning. Developing charts like these might be akin to designing scoring rubrics for writing assessments, for example.
A thumbnail sketch of how to read the ESLStandards follows the charts. Each component is glossed so that readers can understand at a glance the purpose of the individual components and their importance.
Readers should also be aware that a document on the assessment process is being developed to accompany the ESL Standards. The ESL assessment guidelines are being written to help educators:
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