Michael G. Kelly has authored and co-authored several publications related to professional development for technical faculty, Spanish language instruction, vocational education program development, and teaching English to non-native speakers. His publications include student manuals, instructor guides, reports, book reviews, and academic theses focused on topics like labor market analysis, vocational curriculum, and models for limited English proficiency education.
"Surviving College: Promoting Numerical Literacy of English Language Learners and Minority Students."
Deficient numerical literacy (innumeracy) is a gate keeper to college success. It is an endemic problem among students, particularly for English Language Learners and minority students. The presenters will share successful strategies and activities to promote college-level numerical literacy and critical thinking. This new set of skills will empower students to "survive college" by being better prepared and more confident to overcome academic challenges in a variety of disciplines.
(Maryland Plan for Higher Education, Goal 3: Diversity, and Goal 4: Student-Centered Learning)
Assessment of discursive competences versión finalFabio Meneses
The present research project is related to the impact that an electronic portfolio could potentially have on the assessment of discursive competence in English as a Foreign Language, in students from Cristobal Colon School in Bogotá, Colombia. Therefore, this is “action research” in which, “participants [researchers] regard their own educational practice, using the techniques of research that are founded on hypothesis such as ‘teachers and principals work best on problems they have identified for themselves’.”(Ferrance, 2000).Also, researchers designed an electronic portfolio as a resource in order to help students in communicative competence assessment; this electronic portfolio was created on a Google+ platform and applied in the Computer lab. The outcomes of this research show that the implementation of the electronic portfolio had a great impact in the assessment of discursive competence in English, including improvement in fluency, vocabulary and self-awareness.
Key words: assessment, communicative competence, discursive competence, electronic portfolio.
"Surviving College: Promoting Numerical Literacy of English Language Learners and Minority Students."
Deficient numerical literacy (innumeracy) is a gate keeper to college success. It is an endemic problem among students, particularly for English Language Learners and minority students. The presenters will share successful strategies and activities to promote college-level numerical literacy and critical thinking. This new set of skills will empower students to "survive college" by being better prepared and more confident to overcome academic challenges in a variety of disciplines.
(Maryland Plan for Higher Education, Goal 3: Diversity, and Goal 4: Student-Centered Learning)
Assessment of discursive competences versión finalFabio Meneses
The present research project is related to the impact that an electronic portfolio could potentially have on the assessment of discursive competence in English as a Foreign Language, in students from Cristobal Colon School in Bogotá, Colombia. Therefore, this is “action research” in which, “participants [researchers] regard their own educational practice, using the techniques of research that are founded on hypothesis such as ‘teachers and principals work best on problems they have identified for themselves’.”(Ferrance, 2000).Also, researchers designed an electronic portfolio as a resource in order to help students in communicative competence assessment; this electronic portfolio was created on a Google+ platform and applied in the Computer lab. The outcomes of this research show that the implementation of the electronic portfolio had a great impact in the assessment of discursive competence in English, including improvement in fluency, vocabulary and self-awareness.
Key words: assessment, communicative competence, discursive competence, electronic portfolio.
1. Michael G. Kelly
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Kelly, M.G. Student Manual: Boot Camp II for Professional Technical Faculty, Kent,
WA: Center for Excellence for Careers in Education, Green River College, July
2010
Kelly, M.G. Instructor’s Guide: Boot Camp for Professional Technical Faculty, Kent,
WA: Center for Excellence for Careers in Education, Green River College, July
2009
Kelly, M.G. Student Manual: Boot Camp for Professional Technical Faculty, Kent, WA
Center for Excellence for Careers in Education, Green River College, July 2009
Kelly, M.G. Basic Training for Conversational Spanish, Moses Lake, WA: Big Bend
Community College, September, 1990.
Powell, R.B., and M.G. Kelly. The Development of a Rural Regional Skill Center
Reported to the Grantor Partnership Development Fund of the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation (ERIC#JC90092). Los Angeles, CA: U.S. Department of Education,
Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources
Information Center, Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, February, 1990.
Kelly, M.G. “Book Review: Quality is Free, by Philip B. Crosby.” Vocational Progress –
The Illinois Vocational Association Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 1, February, 1988.
Kelly, M.G. Individual Decision-Making: The Effects of Labor Market Information on
Targeting Needed Curriculum. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Milwaukee, WI:
Cardinal Stritch College, 1987.
Kelly, M.G. Labor Market Information Report. Unpublished report for the Regional
Vocational Board of Directors, Sterling IL: Northwestern Illinois Vocational
Education System, 1987.
Kelly, M.G. et al. Machine Shop Fundamentals. Springfield: Illinois State Board of
Education; Department of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education; Research
and Development Section (ISBE/DAVTE/R & D), 1982.
Menges, P.A., M.G. Kelly, and K. Marti-Lambert. “Components of Successful
Vocational Education for Limited English Proficiency Students.” Journal of
Special Needs Populations in Vocational Education, Vol. 5, No. I; Fall, 1982.
Menges, P.A., and M.G. Kelly. “Effective Use of the Native Language with English in
Vocational Education for Limited English Proficiency Students,” in J. Boyd and J.
2. Haskell, eds., Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Illinois TESOL/BE
Convention, Vol. III, Chicago: Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages/Bilingual Education, 1982.
Kelly, M.G. Final Report: A Plan to Develop and Compare Two Vocational Education
Models for Limited English Proficiency Students. Springfield: ISBE/DAVTE/R
& D, 1982.
Menges, P.A. and M.G. Kelly. “Putting the V in VESL,” in J. Haskell and R. Orem, eds.,
Selected Papers from the 9th
Annual Illinois TESOL/BE Convention and 1st
Midwest Regional TESOL Conference. Chicago: Illinois TESOL/BE, 1981.
Kelly, M.G. Book Review: Critical Thinking and Everyday Life, by Ira Shor. Community
Colleges Frontiers, Vol. 9, No. 3, Spring, 1981.
Kelly, M.G., ed. Handbook for the Sponsors of Indochinese Refugees. Rockford, IL:
Rockford Area Refugee Center, 1979.
Kelly, M.G. and V. Collazos. “Kelly-Collazos Oral Interview.” Unpublished English as a
Second Language Placement Test. Rockford, IL: Rock Valley College, 1976.