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发信人: gemini2012 (双子AB), 信区: USANews
标 题: 大学招生AA不过瘾了，直接从ACT考试就AA
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 18 09:06:25 2016, 美东)
ACT Test Makers To Give Extra Time, Special Glossaries To Students Who Can’
t Speak English
Beginning in the fall of 2017, the makers of the ACT will offer U.S. high
school students who can barely speak English the opportunity to take the ACT
college entrance exam in Spanish instead.
“English learners” who attend taxpayer-funded public schools right here in
the United States will now be able to take the ACT with what the ACT makers
describe as Spanish “supports” because the test-makers want “to help
ensure that the ACT scores earned by English learners accurately reflect
what they have learned in school.”
The Spanish-speaking students taking the ACT will receive up to 50 percent
more time to take the important test than English speakers receive,
according to a press release sent to The Daily Caller.
Spanish-speaking test-takers will also be able to use “an approved word-to-
word bilingual glossary” and “test instructions provided in the student’s
native language.”
Additionally, the makers of the ACT say they will segregate Spanish-speaking
students into separate rooms to provide “testing in a non-distracting
environment (i.e., in a separate room).”
“Supports,” segregation and generous extra time will be offered to
students who speak a couple other languages as well.
The perks “will be limited to students in” English learners programs “who
meet the current definitions of an English learner under the Every Student
Succeeds Act.”
The “current definitions of an English learner” are complex, but they
basically amount to students who live in the United States and are learning
English.
“We believe these solutions will help ensure that English learners have an
equal opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned in school, leveling
the playing field while not giving the students any special advantages”
said ACT chief commercial officer Suzana Delanghe said in the testing
conglomerate’s press release. “This change is about improving access and
equity for students whose proficiency in English might prevent them from
truly demonstrating the skills and knowledge they have learned. The supports
are in keeping with the mission of ACT: Helping people achieve education
and workplace success.”
Delanghe did not explain how helping students get higher ACT scores by
providing extra time, segregating them and giving them bilingual word
glossaries will help those students once they enter U.S. colleges and
universities — where extra time and helpful bilingual word glossaries will
likely be unavailable on exam days.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/18/act-test-makers-to-give-extra-time-special-glossaries-to-students-who-cant-speak-english/#ixzz4QMwXbgl8 |
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