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Formative assessments help teachers identify concepts that students are struggling to understand, skills they are having difficulty acquiring, or learning standards they have not yet achieved so that adjustments can be made to lessons, instructional techniques, and academic support.
Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners by Laura Alvarez, Sri Ananda, AÃ­da Walqui, Edynn Sato, and Stanley Rabinowitz Formative assessment has the potential to enhance teaching and learning, especially for those students who face particular chal-lenges, such as English Language Learners (ELL students). In this paper, we examine how formative assessment can enhance the teaching and learning of ELL students in particular. We highlight the opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating forma-tive assessment into instruction for ELL students in the era of the Common Core and other ânext generationâ standards. We argue that in order to use formative assessment effectively with this