The Grade 3 Provincial Achievement Tests
In Need of Revamping
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8158294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hetty Roessingh (0000-0002-7678-3529, University of Calgary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 425-443 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alberta Journal of Educational Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-4805 • E-ISSN: 1923-1857 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.55016/ojs/ajer.v58i3.55631 |
| OpenAlex | W1482775425 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article advances an argument for retaining but revamping the grade 3 Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs). Alberta’s demographic landscape is rapidly changing to include significant numbers of English language learners who are still in the early stages of developing English language proficiency at grade 3. Online tools are used to generate vocabulary profiles from exemplars of three standards of achievement: excellent, proficient and satisfactory. These are compared along various indices of vocabulary diversity. The findings provide striking evidence for rethinking the place of vocabulary in the overall assessment framework of the PATs, and in turn, for emphasizing the need for direct and explicit vocabulary instruction from the earliest of formal schooling experiences for immigrant children and the children of immigrants
Argument (complex analysis) · Diversity (politics) · English language · Geography · Immigration · Language proficiency · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Vocabulary · Lexicography and Language Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
A New Academic Word List
Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
The Development of Reading in Children Who Speak English as a Second Language
Lexical output as related to children's vocabulary acquisition
English Language Learners' Transitional Needs from High School to University
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |