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Greenberg, Daphne; Levy, Susan R.; Rasher, Sue; Kim, Yoonsang; Carter, Sarah Deardorff; Berbaum, Michael L. – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
This study examines the relationship between TABE-R performance and performance on selected, more focused reading component tests after 42 hours of adult education classroom instruction. Specifically, measures of expressive vocabulary, reading fluency, sight word reading, and decoding were administered to 98 participants along with the TABE-R.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Ability, Reading Tests
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Guglielmi, R. Sergio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The hypothesis that native language (L1) proficiency promotes English acquisition and overall academic achievement, a key theoretical assumption underlying bilingual education, was tested using latent growth modeling of data from 899 limited-English-proficient (LEP) eighth graders who were followed for 12 years in the National Education…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Academic Achievement, Reading Ability, Grade 8