Acquire understanding of strategies and instruments for diagnosing and evaluating learning and instruction in English and the student’s home language. Focus will be on the purposes, characteristics, strengths, and limitations of teacher-made and commercial assessments used to assess acquisition of content, language and social skills in students for whom English is a new language. Strategies for reflecting on and using assessment results (data) to modify instruction will be explored along with the significance of sociological and psychological results of testing, validity, reliability, bias, scoring, and other assessment-related issues. Optional graduate credit available: 3.0 semester hours.