Non-native Speakers To Experience A Testing Disadvantage
The difficulty of taking a standardized test in a foreign language will happen statewide this spring to about 36,000 students who know a limited amount of English. Illinois will no longer administer the Illinois Measure of Annual Growth in English (IMAGE) test to students with limited English proficiency.
Instead of the IMAGE test, which has pictures and shorter reading passages, students with limited English will take the same state tests their fluent classmates take. Instead of a two-page reading passage with “yes or no” questions, they will have four pages of reading and multiple choice questions.
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