ESL 154 ACTUAL PAPER ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Norm-REferenced Academic Achievement test - ✔✔Norm-referenced tests (NRTs)
compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already
taken the same exam, called the "norming group.
✔✔RPTE - ✔✔Reading Proficiency Tests in English, grade 3-12
✔✔Linguistically Accommodated Testing (LAT) - ✔✔Alternative mathematics
assessment process for English Language Learners (ELLs) who are LEP-exempt from
regular TAKS mathematics tests in Grades 3-8 and 10. LAT results are used in the
Adequate Yearly Progress Accountability (AYP) system required by NCLB
✔✔Lau vs. Nichols 1974 - ✔✔was a civil rights case that was brought by Chinese
American students living in San Francisco, California who had limited English
proficiency. The students claimed that they were not receiving special help in school
due to their inability to speak English, help which they argued they were entitled to
under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of its ban on educational
discrimination on the basis of national origin.
✔✔Castaneda vs Pickard 1981 - ✔✔This case was filed against the Raymondville
Independent School District (RISD) in Texas by Roy Castañeda, the father of two
Mexican-American children. Mr. Castañeda claimed that the RISD was discriminating
against his children because of their ethnicity. He argued that the classroom his children
were being taught in was segregated, using a grouping system for classrooms based on
criteria that were both ethnically and racially discriminating.
✔✔Domain 1 - ✔✔Language Concepts & Language Acquisition
✔✔Domain 2 - ✔✔ESL Instruction & Assessment
✔✔Domain 3 - ✔✔Foundation of ESL, Cultural Awareness, & Family-Community
Involvement
SET A+
✔✔Norm-REferenced Academic Achievement test - ✔✔Norm-referenced tests (NRTs)
compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already
taken the same exam, called the "norming group.
✔✔RPTE - ✔✔Reading Proficiency Tests in English, grade 3-12
✔✔Linguistically Accommodated Testing (LAT) - ✔✔Alternative mathematics
assessment process for English Language Learners (ELLs) who are LEP-exempt from
regular TAKS mathematics tests in Grades 3-8 and 10. LAT results are used in the
Adequate Yearly Progress Accountability (AYP) system required by NCLB
✔✔Lau vs. Nichols 1974 - ✔✔was a civil rights case that was brought by Chinese
American students living in San Francisco, California who had limited English
proficiency. The students claimed that they were not receiving special help in school
due to their inability to speak English, help which they argued they were entitled to
under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of its ban on educational
discrimination on the basis of national origin.
✔✔Castaneda vs Pickard 1981 - ✔✔This case was filed against the Raymondville
Independent School District (RISD) in Texas by Roy Castañeda, the father of two
Mexican-American children. Mr. Castañeda claimed that the RISD was discriminating
against his children because of their ethnicity. He argued that the classroom his children
were being taught in was segregated, using a grouping system for classrooms based on
criteria that were both ethnically and racially discriminating.
✔✔Domain 1 - ✔✔Language Concepts & Language Acquisition
✔✔Domain 2 - ✔✔ESL Instruction & Assessment
✔✔Domain 3 - ✔✔Foundation of ESL, Cultural Awareness, & Family-Community
Involvement
