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Assessment Format: Assessment Tools

Sample Formal Assessment 4 – Visually-Based Questions

Students participate in various degrees of ESL classes at the New York Resettlement Office. IRC/Meredith Goncalves

The following assessment allows participants to use photos to respond to questions. This type of assessment can be more time-consuming to design, complete, grade, and input data. Because of the resources, this assessment may be best in a one-on-one setting, although it could also be adapted and used as an informal assessment with pair or group work. […]

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Sample Formal Assessment 2 – Simple Closed Questions

A group of refugees attending a class on digital technology at their local resettlement office

The following assessment could be adapted for low-literacy participants and those with less experience with testing. […]

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Sample Formal Assessment 1 – Complex Closed Questions

Students participating in an ESL class at their local resettlement office

The following assessment will work better with high-literacy participants who have experience with formal testing. However, it can be adapted for other groups. […]

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Domestic Cultural Orientation Objectives and Indicators

Refugees from Somalia are taught how to use the Phoenix public transportation system by IRC Phoenix staff.

The following document outlines the topics and corresponding content objectives and learning indicators that should be applied in the delivery of overseas and domestic Cultural Orientation. The Objectives and Indicators were developed by the Cultural Orientation Working Group and approved by PRM in 2012. […]

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Sample Formal Assessment 3 – Open Questions

Resettled refugees learning English during a cultural orientation class

The following assessment is an open question assessment, which could be adapted across literacy groups (administered as a written or oral assessment). […]

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