Curriculum Related Assessment: Cummins and Bilingual Children

ISBN-13: 9781853592706 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd. Publication date: 02/13/1996 Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism , #8 Pages: 160 Product dimensions: 5.85(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.35(d) The educational assessment of bilingual children in the Western world is highly controversial. The editors and authors of this book are experienced academics and practitioners in this field in the UK. They have taken the creative ideas of Jim Cummins across the Atlantic and have applied them through a novel technique of curriculum related assessment. The book describes the technique in detail and reports on its use in a wide range of settings. The book introduces the context and outlines some of the challenges facing teachers of bilingual children. Five central chapters show how teachers and psychologists have applied Cummins' framework to the analysis of classroom support; to specialist support for children with learning difficulties; to differentiating the curriculum in English and Scie