View Content #5149
| Contentid | 5149 |
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| Title | CASLS Pilots Japanese Assessment Tool |
| Body | Dear Japanese language teachers, Konnichiwa! My name is Miyoko Nakajima and I work as the pilot coordinator for the National Online Early Language Learning Assessment (NOELLA) at the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS). I am happy to announce that the pilot test for Japanese NOELLA is now online and seeking participant classes. As the first affordable, universally accessible, and nationally norm-based assessment of proficiency of early language learning, NOELLA will provide schools throughout the country with the means to measure the performance of young students accurately and reliably. Professional Japanese teachers from different programs and regions gathered in Portland in late June and created hundreds of NOELLA items, which CASLS developed for online delivery during the summer. It is now time to pilot those items with your students, in order to check the items reliability and accuracy. This pilot test will help us select only the best items to include in the final version. CASLS has started piloting the Japanese NOELLA items and will continue piloting through the beginning of November. We invite all teachers of Japanese in Grades 3 through 6 to participate in this exciting project. There are a few steps to follow before being able to administer the assessment to your students: 1. Go to the NOELLA website at www.noella.uoregon.edu and read over the FAQ page. Have your technical support person at the school check the technology requirement page. 2. Click on register here and fill out the online registration form. 3. I will then send you an email to confirm your participation, asking for a date and time during which you think you will administer the test to your students. 4. I will send you two consent forms, one of which will be given to the parents and the other one that will be read to the students before the test itself. 5. Once you have confirmed your test date and time with me, you will be able to go to the website and log in to take the test! 6. Please note that the writing portion for Japanese NOELLA will not be available until the next round of pilots in spring 2007. Please let us know if you need a letter for your school or district supervisor. We also strongly encourage you to recruit colleagues at your school and in your area for any of our NOELLA pilots in Japanese, Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Please, feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have. Sincerely, Miyoko Nakajima Japanese NOELLA Pilot Coordinator Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) 541-346-5705 jpnoella@uoregon.edu |
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| Inputdate | 2006-10-07 13:45:00 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-10-09 00:00:00 |
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