ERIC Number: ED625232
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr-17
Pages: 6
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Analyzing Bilingual Science Assessments for Improved Understanding of Science and Language Connections
Buxton, Cory A.; Harman, Ruth; Cardozo-Gaibisso, Lourdes; Jiang, Lei; Bui, Khanh; Allexsaht-Snider, Martha A.
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Online, Apr 17-21, 2020)
We report on the use of bilingual constructed response science assessments in the context of a research and development partnership with secondary school science teachers. Our project provided a series of workshops for teachers where they explored students' emergent reform-oriented science meaning-making in our project-designed assessments. We used discourse analysis to explore how three different groups grappled with the relationship between science and language in this context: (1) researchers' emergent understandings of how to create improved resources for teachers to better integrate science and language; (2) students' emergent understandings as expressed in their assessment responses; and (3) teachers' emergent understandings of how to integrate science and language in their instruction as expressed in interviews in the teacher writing workshops.
Descriptors: Science Tests, Bilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Workshops, Test Format, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Discourse Analysis, Correlation, Language Role, Educational Resources, Knowledge Level, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Educational Change, Spanish, Native Language, Longitudinal Studies, Culture Fair Tests, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Science Instruction
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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