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Effects of Reclassifying English Learner Students on Student Achievement in New Mexico. REL 2022-138
Garrett, Rachel; Larsen, Eric; Arellanes, Melissa – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
This study examined how attaining English proficiency and being reclassified as fluent English proficient affected achievement in English language arts and math in the first year after student reclassification in grades 3-8 in New Mexico. State policy in New Mexico bases student reclassification decisions on whether students attain a minimum…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study that examined how attaining English proficiency and being reclassified as fluent English proficient affected achievement in English language arts and math in the first year after student reclassification in grades 3-8 in New Mexico. New Mexico established a state-level policy that requires…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The "Effects of Reclassifying English Learner Students on Student Achievement in New Mexico" study examined being reclassified as fluent English proficient and achievement in English language arts and math in the first year after student reclassification. The study focused on achievement among English learner students in 2014/15-2018/19…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Philip Capin; Sharon Vaughn; Joseph E. Miller; Jeremy Miciak; Anna-Mari Fall; Greg Roberts; Eunsoo Cho; Amy E. Barth; Paul K. Steinle; Jack M. Fletcher – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: This study investigated the reading profiles of middle school Spanish-speaking emergent bilinguals (EBs) with significantly below grade level reading comprehension and whether these profiles varied in their reading comprehension performance over time. Method: Latent profile analyses were used to classify Grade 6 and 7 Hispanic EBs (n =…
Descriptors: Profiles, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Middle School Students
Joshi, Ela – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Reclassification is a crucial outcome for English learner (EL) students' academic progress. Though ELs spend a large portion of their academic time with general education teachers, we know little about the role general education teachers play in developing ELs' English language proficiency. Drawing from a longitudinal administrative dataset from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Poole, Frederick J.; Clarke-Midura, Jody – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Research involving digital games and language learning is rapidly growing. One advantage of using digital games to support language learning is the ability to collect data on students learning in real time. In this study, we use educational data mining methods to explore the relationship between in-game data and elementary students' Chinese…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Data Analysis
Lorna Marie Porter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students classified as English learners (EL) are a protected class of students with core legal rights. There are clear opportunities to strengthen education policies and practices to improve opportunities and outcomes for EL-classified students. This dissertation is comprised of three studies examining key issues in EL education with the goal of…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Outcomes of Education, English Language Learners, Educational Policy
Umansky, Ilana; Porter, Lorna; Moreno, Elijah; Pierson, Ashley – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2021
This report examines the population of Alaska Native students who are classified as English learner (EL) students and how EL policies function for these students, focusing on EL identification, classification, service provision, and reclassification as fluent English proficient. Alaska is one of several states where Indigenous students make up a…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Indigenous Populations
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
English spelling has always been described by many language researchers and teachers as a daunting task especially for learners whose first language is not English. This monograph presents the report of an investigation on the use of spelling, which includes the determining factor of grammar in the teaching of English, in it we will develop a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Matta, Tyler H.; Soland, James – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
The development of academic English proficiency and the time it takes to reclassify to fluent English proficient status are key issues in English learner (EL) policy. This article develops a shared random effects model (SREM) to estimate English proficiency development and time to reclassification simultaneously, treating student-specific random…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Classification, Language Fluency
Weaver, Andrew; Kieffer, Michael J. – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study examines differences in English language comprehension, reading fluency, and executive functions among Spanish-English bilinguals with reading difficulties. Reading difficulties examined included general reading difficulties, defined by low word reading and reading comprehension, and specific-reading comprehension difficulties, defined…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Achievement Tests, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability
Weaver, Andrew; Kieffer, Michael J. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study examines differences in English language comprehension, reading fluency, and executive functions among Spanish-English bilinguals with reading difficulties. Reading difficulties examined included general reading difficulties, defined by low word reading and reading comprehension, and specific-reading comprehension difficulties, defined…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Shin, Nami – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
Using student-level longitudinal data from one large urban school district, I examine Long-term English Learners' (LTELs) characteristics and their linguistic and academic performance in comparison to on-track English learners and initially fluent students. I also investigate what factors are related to their becoming LTELs. This study focuses on…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Urban Schools, Longitudinal Studies, Student Characteristics
Hwang, Jin Kyoung; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
We investigated general vocabulary and academic vocabulary growth trajectories of adolescent language minority students using an individual growth modeling approach. Our analytical sample included 3161 sixth- to eighth-grade students from an urban school district in California. The language minority students in our sample were classified as…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, High Achievement, Language Minorities, Limited English Speaking
Brodeur, Katherine – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
This case study contrasts sixth-grade student Antonio's perspective of himself as a "good student" with perceptions some of Antonio's teachers held related to his classification as a student with a Specific Learning Disability and an English Learner as enacted in classroom literacy practices. With Antonio's voice at the center,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Dyslexia, Case Studies, Student Attitudes