Study Guide

Field 184: Bilingual Education Assessment—Yiddish
Presentational Writing: Yiddish

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Review the hand-draw tutorial video and scanning instructions , which include a sample response sheet from a Mathematics test and will be made available during your test.

Directions for Presentational Writing: Yiddish Assignment

For the Presentational Writing section of the test, you will write an essay in Yiddish in response to an assignment.

Read the assignment carefully before you begin to write. Think about how you will organize your essay. You should use your time to plan, write, review, and edit your essay. You may use the erasable notebooklet to make notes, write an outline, or otherwise prepare your response. However, your final response to the assignment must be written on the response sheets and scanned using the scanner provided at your workstation.

Instructions for scanning your Response Sheets are available by clicking the "Scanning Help" button at the top of the screen.

Your response will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• APPROPRIATENESS: the extent to which the response is an essay written in the candidate's own words, states an opinion on the issue presented in the question, and uses language, style, and sociocultural conventions appropriate for the assignment (task, purpose, audience, and context or situation)
• SUPPORT: the extent to which the response supports and explains the stated opinion with the candidate's own relevant ideas or examples
• ORGANIZATION: the extent to which the response is a well-organized and coherent essay that communicates clear ideas, develops a logical conclusion, and uses cohesive devices to connect sentences
• GRAMMAR: the extent to which the response uses a range of appropriate grammatical constructions, time frames, sentence structures, and mechanics (i.e., spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and diacritical marks)
• VOCABULARY: the extent to which the response uses a range of appropriate vocabulary and academic and/or idiomatic language

Your response will be evaluated on the criteria above, not on the position you take. Your response must be written in your own words.

You may use the erasable notebooklet provided to take notes; however, you will be scored only on the response that you type in the response box for the assignment.

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Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Sample Assignments

In this study guide, two sample assignments are provided to assist an examinee in preparing for the actual test. On the actual test, there will be one Presentational Writing: Yiddish assignment to which the examinee will have to provide a response.

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Presentational Writing: Yiddish

Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Sample Assignment 1

Use the information below to complete the assignment that follows.

In your opinion, can online teaching and learning be used for class instruction in a useful and effective way?

In response to the question above, write a well-organized and coherent essay in Yiddish for an audience of educated adults. In your essay, you must:

• state and explain your opinion about the question;
• support your opinion by providing at least two relevant ideas or examples; and
• develop a conclusion that follows from and supports the ideas or examples presented in your essay.

Your response must be written in your own words.

Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Sample Strong Response to Sample Assignment 1

Note: The sample strong response for the presentational writing assignment is an example of a response that a candidate might write. While the sample response demonstrates effective presentational writing skills, it could contain typical errors that candidates may produce in composing an essay in Yiddish. Please see the rationale following the response for more details.

Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Rationale for Sample Strong Response to Sample Assignment 1

The response is a well-organized and coherent essay that effectively communicates clear ideas and develops a logical conclusion. The candidate establishes a clear position on the issue presented in the question by stating that online teaching and learning can be used in a useful way in schools.

The candidate effectively supports the established position with at least two of his or her own relevant ideas and examples. As a teacher, the writer utilizes various technologies at school. This increases student participation and motivation as the teacher can include online videos and other online tools as well as provide immediate feedback when giving quizzes online.

The response effectively uses a range of appropriate vocabulary and academic and/or idiomatic language. It also effectively uses a broad range of appropriate grammatical constructions and time frames. Minor errors do not interfere with comprehensibility.

Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Sample Assignment 2

Use the information below to complete the assignment that follows.

In your opinion, can students' life experiences be used to facilitate student learning?

In response to the question above, write a well-organized and coherent essay in Yiddish for an audience of educated adults. In your essay, you must:

• state and explain your opinion about the question;
• support your opinion by providing at least two relevant ideas or examples; and
• develop a conclusion that follows from and supports the ideas or examples presented in your essay.

Your response must be written in your own words.

Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Sample Strong Response to Sample Assignment 2

Note: The sample strong response for the presentational writing assignment is an example of a response that a candidate might write. While the sample response demonstrates effective presentational writing skills, it could contain typical errors that candidates may produce in composing an essay in Yiddish. Please see the rationale following the response for more details.

Presentational Writing: Yiddish
Rationale for Sample Strong Response to Sample Assignment 2

The response is a well-organized and coherent essay that effectively communicates clear ideas and develops a logical conclusion. The candidate establishes a clear position on the issue presented in the question by stating that students’ life experiences can be used to facilitate learning.

The candidate effectively supports the established position with at least two of his or her own relevant ideas and examples. As a student, the writer and classmates felt special when the teachers referred to something from their lives in classes. As a teacher, the writer displays maps of the home countries of the students in class. This increases student participation and allows students to share their diverse points of view.

The response effectively uses a range of appropriate vocabulary and academic and/or idiomatic language. It also effectively uses a broad range of appropriate grammatical constructions and time frames. Minor errors do not interfere with comprehensibility.

Performance Characteristics for Presentational Writing: Yiddish Assignment

The following characteristics guide the scoring of the response to the Presentational Writing: Yiddish assignment.

APPROPRIATENESS	The extent to which the response is an essay written in the candidate's own words, states an opinion on the issue presented in the question, and uses language, style, and sociocultural conventions appropriate for the assignment (task, purpose, audience, and context or situation)
SUPPORT	The extent to which the response supports and explains the stated opinion with the candidate's own relevant ideas or examples
ORGANIZATION	The extent to which the response is a well-organized and coherent essay that communicates clear ideas, develops a logical conclusion, and uses cohesive devices to connect sentences
GRAMMAR	The extent to which the response uses a range of appropriate grammatical constructions, time frames, sentence structures, and mechanics (i.e., spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and diacritical marks)
VOCABULARY	The extent to which the response uses a range of appropriate vocabulary and academic and/or idiomatic language

Score Scale for Presentational Writing: Yiddish Assignment

A score will be assigned to the response to the Presentational Writing: Yiddish assignment according to the following score scale.

Score Point	Score Point Description
4	The "4" response demonstrates effective presentational writing skills.
3	The "3" response demonstrates generally effective presentational writing skills.
2	The "2" response demonstrates partially effective presentational writing skills.
1	The "1" response demonstrates ineffective presentational writing skills.
U	The response is unscorable because it is merely a repetition of the assignment, not related to the assignment, not primarily in the target language, or not of sufficient length to score.
B	There is no response to the assignment.

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