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Maack, Stephen C. – 2002
This paper discusses cohorts of Rio Hondo College (California) fall term students who completed the English/English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) assessment test under the ESL scoring rubric between fall 1996 and spring 2001, and considers the relationships of assessment testing, enrollment, and course success. Report highlights include: (1) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Community Colleges, English (Second Language)
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Mathews, Thomas J.; Hansen, Cheryl M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This paper reviews the process a university foreign language department went through in developing a procedure to assess its curriculum using the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and, to a lesser extent, the National Standards, as guiding principles (National Standards, 1996). This procedure included a noncredit workshop that met only once to inform…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, National Standards, Achievement Tests, Language Proficiency
Aguirre-Munoz, Zenaida; Boscardin, Christy Kim; Jones, Barbara; Park, Jae-Eun; Chinen, Marjorie; Shin, Hye Sook; Lee, Janet; Amabisca, Anastasia Aimee; Benner, Aprile – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
To further the understanding of ELL (under) achievement and broaden the current scope of OTL models, the primary focus of this study was to investigate process and content opportunities that are particularly relevant to improving ELL achievement with particular attention to the relationship between opportunities to acquire academic language and…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Educational Change