Orientation - Assessment

TABE 13/14 Information – Resources from adult education publishers that support TABE 13/14.

NRS Technical Assistance Guide – Provides technical assistance to states on the implementation of program performance and accountability requirements.

CASAS – the website for the CASAS GOALS 2 tests.

TABE – the website for the TABE suite of assessments including TABE 13/14.

Assessment
• NRS Technical Assistance Guide – The National Reporting System’s guide for states and local programs on the implementation of program performance and accountability requirements.
• Ohio Aspire Assessment Policy - Appendix A and B contain the Assessment Charts with the TABE CLAS-E Scale Score Benchmarks for the state-approved standardized tests.
• Ohio Aspire E-Guide – Aspire staff handbook with information on Curriculum and Instruction, Program Application and Funding, Program Operation, Student Assessment, Student Transitions, and Student Experience Model.



Instruction
• Formative Assessment – TEAL article about the use of formative assessment and strategies for the classroom.
• TABE CLAS-E – the TABE Complete Language Assessment System–English test
• Teaching Strategies, Learning Activities, and Assessments for the Adult Education Classroom - Collection of instructional strategies for the classroom; also found in the Instructional Resource Collection under Teaching Strategies.
• Test-Taking Strategies Resources – Strategies to help students prepare for taking a test.



Screeners
ABE
• Learning Disabilities Policy and Planning Guide – Find screening instruments approved in the LD Policy on pages 13-14.



ESOL
• 5-Minute Screening Tool - ABC English offers the 5-minute screener to quickly determine if a student is an Emergent Reader (literacy-level) student or not. It can also be used to place students into groups.
• Native Language Literacy Assessment -– An assessment tool to informally observe the native language literacy skills of English language learners in English, Amharic, Arabic, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, and Swahili.
• Native Language Literacy Screening Device - –An assessment tool to informally observe the native language literacy of English language learners in 27 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Croatian, English, Farsi, French, Haitian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.



Standardized Assessments
• BEST – the website for the BEST Plus 3.0 and BEST Literacy 2.0 tests for ESOL.
• CASAS - The website for the CASAS GOALS 2 (ABE/ASE) and STEPS (ESOL) tests.
• TABE – the website for the TABE suite of assessments including TABE 13/14 (ABE/ASE) and TABE CLAS-E (ESOL).