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Peer reviewedButler, Yuko Goto; Orr, Jennifer Evelyn; Bousquet Gutierrez, Michele; Hakuta, Kenji – Bilingual Research Journal, 2000
An analysis of SAT-9 scores since passage of Proposition 227 indicates that scores increased for all students, not just for English-learning students; scores increased for most districts regardless of the programs implemented; it was not possible to isolate the impact of Proposition 227; and SAT-9 is not an appropriate measure for assessing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Download full textGran, James R. – 1969
Teachers of 30 adult evening high school completion classes in Jackson County, Iowa, completed questionnaires to assess their own inservice training needs in relation to program content and effectiveness. The comparative few who recognized a need for inservice training stressed such concerns as courses in English, and adult education trends and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Program Evaluation, Public School Adult Education, Secondary Education
Oakland Unified School District, CA. – 1966
CLASSES IN BASIC EDUCATION AND ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN-SPEAKING PERSONS, FUNDED BY THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT (EOA), WERE BEGUN IN JANUARY 1965 IN ADULT DAY SCHOOLS IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FOR MEN AND AFDA MOTHERS, WHO TESTED AT LESS THAN 8TH-GRADE LEVEL. WELFARE PAYMENTS WERE CONTINUED AND CASH REIMBURSEMENTS AND CHILD CARE PROVIDED FOR MOTHERS.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Puzzuoli, David A.; Alexander, Donald L. – 1971
In September 1962, the State Board of Education initiated a broad annual study of the academic achievement and scholastic aptitude of West Virginia public schools called the State-County Testing Program. The results of this program in Region II West Virginia schools for 1965-66 - 1969-70 are analyzed to: 1) identify discernable trends; 2) find any…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Accountability, Achievement Tests
