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Van Laere, Evelien; Aesaert, Koen; van Braak, Johan – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
The present study aimed to identify the role of both student- and school-level characteristics in primary school students' achievement in the science curriculum. As societies become more culturally and linguistically diverse, many students enter the classroom with a home language that is different from the language of instruction used at school.…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Language Proficiency, Student Characteristics, Native Language
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Verheyden, Lieve; Van den Branden, Kris; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Van den Bergh, Huub; De Maeyer, Sven – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
This semi-longitudinal study examined the development of narrative writing quality of young Turkish second language learners in mainstream Dutch-only education, and the impact of student-level and classroom-level predictors of narrative writing quality, using hierarchical linear modelling. Writing samples of 106 third graders and 111 fourth…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Primary Education, Writing Achievement, Effect Size