Policy Issues in Assessing Indigenous Languages: A Navajo Case.

McGroarty, Mary; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ511933

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Policy Issues in Assessing Indigenous Languages: A Navajo Case.

McGroarty, Mary; And Others

Applied Linguistics, v16 n3 p323-43 Sep 1995

This article describes some of the policy questions arising in the course of efforts to develop a test of Navajo language comprehension for young children, explaining how the test development process was similar to and different from the typical model of top-down test development by outside experts. (58 references) (MDM)

Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Education, Evaluation Problems, Government Role, Language Attitudes, Language Planning, Language Tests, Navajo, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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