{"pk":36374,"title":"A Learner-Centered Approach to Standards-Based Teaching and Assessment: The EFF Model","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the potential for integrating standards-based and learner-centered approaches to adult ESOL instruction. This paper contains a brief scenario of classroom teaching and assessment using the Equipped for the Future (EFF) approach to standards- based, learner-centered teaching and assessment. This is followed by a discussion of qualities that assessments should have so that they can provide useful information for educational improvement within an approach that is both learner-centered and standards-based. The paper also provides a sample of standards-based performance-level descriptions (using the EFF standard Listen Actively as an example) and describes how adult ESOL instructors might use a standards-based assessment framework such as the EFF standards and performance levels as a guide for learner-centered teaching and assessment.","language":"eng","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Theme Section - Adult ESL","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d37k99w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Regie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stites","name_suffix":"","institution":"EFF Assessment Consortium","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2004-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/catesoljournal/article/36374/galley/27226/download/"}]}