عنوان

Preparedness of Muslim ESL students to meet the Common Core State Standards-based assessment: A qualitative study in an Islamic private school

TL48006

انگلیسی

Preparedness of Muslim ESL students to meet the Common Core State Standards-based assessment: A qualitative study in an Islamic private school

[Thesis]

[Thesis]

[Thesis]

[Thesis]

Radi S. Moustafa Abouelhassan

Meyer, Lois M.

The University of New Mexico

2014

254

Committee members: Husain, Altaf; Mahn, Holbrook; Zancanella, Donald

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-27252-9

Ph.D.

Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies

The University of New Mexico

2014

This is a qualitative study of four Muslim parents whose ESL children attend an Islamic private school in the American Southwest. The study investigates the preparedness of these Muslim ESL students to meet the Common Core State Standards-based assessments. The focus of the study is the conceptual processes included in the academic skills embedded in the standards. With this in mind, the study provides a detailed analysis of these conceptual processes and an analysis of the conceptual processes available to these Muslim ESL students in their households and in their Islamic Studies textbooks. Next, the study highlights challenges that Muslim ESL students might face with the CCSS-based assessments due to the discrepancies between the conceptual processes included in the CCSS on the one hand, and the conceptual processes available for them in their households and their Islamic Studies textbooks on the other. Finally, the study offers recommendations for assessment consortia who design the CCSS-based assessments about ways they can take into consideration the level of preparedness among Muslim ESL students to meet the conceptual processes of the standards. Similarly, the study recommends ways in which this Islamic private school can consider the needs of their ESL students while assessing their readiness to meet the standards.

Language arts; Islamic Studies; Elementary education; Qualitative research; Children; Parents & parenting; English as a second language learning; Education policy; Educational standards; Middle school education

Social sciences;Education;Academic language;Assessment;Common core state standards;Conceptual understanding;English as a second language;English language learners;Islamic school

Djordjevic, Stevan

Meyer, Lois M.

Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies

The University of New Mexico

1629019271; 3641267

p

[Thesis]

276903

a

Y