Innovative Online Spanish Reading Assessment Available for Second Language Learners
Let's Go Learn, Inc announces the release of a Spanish-language version of the award-winning Diagnostic Online Reading Assessment (DORA).
Kensington, CA (PRWEB) June 20, 2009 -- Let's Go Learn, Inc announces the release of a Spanish-language version of the award-winning Diagnostic Online Reading Assessment (DORA). This exciting new online Spanish reading assessment, Diagnostic Online Reading Assessment (DORA) Spanish or EDELL (Evaluación Diagnostica Español de Lectura en Línea) allows educators to assess Spanish students' reading skills in their primary language, in order to better address the English-language needs of these students. DORA Spanish/ EDELL is ideal for English Language Learners (ELL) in grades K-12, as well as for adult ESL programs and tutoring centers.
Based upon widely-accepted English Language education research, DORA Spanish/EDELL is a powerful, diagnostic online assessment of students' Spanish reading abilities. For ESL teachers, DORA Spanish/EDELL provides an effective means of comparing students' first language Spanish abilities with their developing second language English reading skills, and allows teachers to best utilize those Spanish reading skills to further develop English reading skills. Like the original DORA, DORA Spanish/EDELL will assess students across seven reading subskills, using the Let's Go Learn OAASIS platform to adapt to student performance throughout the assessment
Let's Go Learn co-founder and CEO, Richard Capone, states, "We are thrilled to be the only company able to offer ELL teachers this one-of-a-kind Spanish reading assessment opportunity. In order to best support the growth of English Language learning and reading, we recognize the importance of assessing and supporting learning in the child's first language as well. The addition of DORA Spanish/EDELL to the DORA family of truly diagnostic assessments allows teachers to assess the reading needs of all their students, regardless of primary language, and better design instruction to meet those needs."
Implemented entirely in Spanish, and assessing specifically Spanish reading and language knowledge, DORA Spanish/EDELL provides an assessment environment comfortable for ELL students. Individual student and classroom reports are instantly available for teachers and administrators to download, view, or print. Comprehensive reports are available to assist teachers in designing differentiated instruction to meet the unique needs of ELL students.
The web-based platform of DORA Spanish/EDELL allows for practical school- or district-wide deployment of assessments, leading to dramatic reading score improvement, the enrichment of literacy and English Language programs, and time and cost savings. DORA Spanish/EDELL is ideal for automating most schools' diagnostic assessment processes, which tend to be paper-based and labor-intensive.
Let's Go Learn offers K-12 reading and math assessment and instruction as well as professional development courses for teachers and specialists. Developed by math and reading specialists and researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Let's Go Learn's suite of products has proven to be extremely valid and reliable. Since its founding, Let's Go Learn has been used to perform over 900,000 assessments nationwide.
Let's Go Learn is committed to creating innovative, scalable educational assessment and instructional tools that help parents, teachers, and administrators rapidly advance students' abilities. By combining cutting-edge technology with best practices in education, Let's Go Learn provides top quality, research-based resources to the educational community, utilizing experts in reading, math, assessment, and instruction. Let's Go Learn strives to develop solutions that are practical and easily sustained in today's educational climate, providing students with the support necessary to ensure long-term success.
For more information about DORA Spanish/EDELL or other Let's Go Learn products, please call 1-888-618-7323 or visit online at http://www.letsgolearn.com/.
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