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Direct linkWolf, Mikyung Kim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
This commentary highlights major validation challenges raised, explicitly or implicitly, from the four articles in the special issue on "Validity Considerations for Assessing Language Proficiency in Young Language Minority Students." They are concerned with: (1) the construct definition in consideration of young language-minority (LM)…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Proficiency, Student Characteristics, Student Evaluation
Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Div. of Assessment and Accountability. – 2000
This report describes six studies on the educational progress of students who entered New York City public schools as non-native English speakers, or English language learners (ELLs). Studies examined number of years students were served in bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) programs; characteristics of students receiving these services;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedRumberger, Russell W.; Larson, Katherine A. – Sociology of Education, 1998
Documents the extent of differences in educational achievement among a cohort of Mexican-American students in a large, urban middle school. Analyzes this information using two theoretical perspectives, socioeconomic and sociocultural, and a conceptual framework of the roles of social and academic behavior on educational achievement. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Educational Background
Rumberger, Russell W. – University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, 2005
Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are often interested in a number of demographic characteristics of students, such as race and ethnicity, language background, immigration status, and poverty. For example, the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) legislation requires schools and districts to report student test scores…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Race, Poverty, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedWalker-Vann, Cheryl – American Annals of the Deaf, 1998
Summarizes characteristics of Hispanic students at the Texas School for the Deaf. It discusses trilingual (American Sign Language, English, Spanish) situations and problems related to multilingual home and school environments. A model is proposed for language instruction and support-services programs. (DB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLupart, Judy L.; Timmons, Vianne; Odishaw, Janine – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2003
This introductory article discusses a study that investigated how at-risk students are defined in each of the Canadian provinces and Northern Territories and similarities in the definitions in the policy-making and policy implementation arenas. Different types of students that may be at-risk are described. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Classification, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Grognet, Allene Guss – 1998
The 1992 report of the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) and several other recent studies and publications addressing the nation's changing labor force development needs, particularly as they concern instruction in English language skills for the workplace, are discussed briefly, and five aspects of this issue often…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Traits, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
Fleischman, Howard L.; Hopstock, Paul J. – 1993
This report summarizes a study of: the type, content, duration, and intensity of instructional services provided to limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the United States; administrative procedures associated with these services (including procedures for identifying students for entry into and exit from these special services); the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education Programs, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education
Fleischman, Howard L., Ed.; Dervaric, Charles, Ed.; Leighton, Ed.; Said, Mary Staples, Ed. – 1994
The report presents results of a study of: the type, content, duration, and intensity of instructional services provided to limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the United States; administrative procedures associated with these services (including procedures for identifying students for entry into and exit from these special services); the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Costs
Hopstock, Paul J.; Bucaro, Bonnie J.; Fleischman, Howard L.; Zehler, Annette M.; Eu, Hongsook – 1993
The report presents results of a study of: the type, content, duration, and intensity of instructional services provided to limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the United States; administrative procedures associated with these services (including procedures for identifying students for entry into and exit from these special services); the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education Programs, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education
