Dr. Kate Mahoney
Professor Kate Mahoney is the author of the newly-published, "The Assessment of Multilingual Learners."
The book was published by Multilingual Matters Publishing Company. Dr. Mahoney is a faculty member in the College of Education, Health Sciences, and Human Services.
The book is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of assessing students who use two or more languages in their daily life. It provides foundational information for assessing multilingual learners (MLs) in schools, with an emphasis on school language and content.
Major assessment ideas are viewed through a framework called PUMI (Purpose, Use, Method and Instrument) to help readers focus on important assessment principles, leading to better quality assessments for MLs.
This is a substantially revised and updated second edition of “The Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals,” which Mahoney also wrote. Updates in this new edition include a greater focus on multilingual assessment and assessment in language contexts in addition to English/Spanish.
This edition addresses both the current politics of multilingual assessment and recent theoretical developments, including an expanded exploration of translanguaging in assessment contexts.
This edition aims to be more practical than the first edition, with more examples of assessments and rubrics, and a greater emphasis on using assessment results in formative ways.
The mission of Multilingual Matters Publishing Company is to include publishing in the fields of applied linguistics, literacy education, multicultural education, immigrant language learning and second language acquisition.
