[eal-bilingual] Testing of EAL pupils

CAT non verbal also ?

Sara Green
Head of Language Development Service
Family and Children's Services Kensington and Chelsea
Isaac Newton PDC
108a Lancaster Road
London W11 1QS

Tel: 020 7598 4817
Fax: 020 7598 4808

Email: sara.green at rbkc.gov.uk
www.rbkc.gov.uk/eal14to19

-----Original Message-----
From: eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Butcher Paul
Sent: 22 March 2007 09:12
To: For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic andlinguisticminorities
Subject: RE: [eal-bilingual] Testing of EAL pupils

 NFER non-verbal reasoning, first language assessment, Numeracy will all
help.
Also to assume they are higher ability unless proven otherwise

Paul Butcher  
Senior Ethnic Minority Achievement Consultant 
Learning and Standards 
Children's Services 
165a Cromwell Road 
Peterborough PE1 2EL 
01733 703748 

-----Original Message-----
From: eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of helen
tucker
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:17 PM
To: eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [eal-bilingual] Testing of EAL pupils

All pupils wishing to join our school (secondary) are tested to find the
approriate group for them.  Our EAL pupils are consistently coming out
with low scores so are placed in the bottom groups.  After a few lessons
it becomes apparent that the pupils are wrongly placed - they should be
going into higher ability groups.

How do other schools test their EAL pupils' ability?  Any advice/info
offered gratefully received.

Helen

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