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Download full textCook, Janet Pemberton – 1990
This article reports on an ethnographic research project that investigated the relationship between home language use and acquisition of academic English as determined by the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) scores. The subjects were 33 children ages 10 to 14 from bilingual Spanish-English families. Data on home language use was collected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1987
This Title VII program completed its second year of a 3 year continuation project to provide students with limited English proficiency instruction designed to help them achieve English language proficiency. The program also included a staff development component. Students were in Lau categories A, B, and C (non-English speaking, English as a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), English Teacher Education
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1986
This Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII project was designed to increase English Language proficiency in limited English proficient students in Lau categories A, B, and C (non-English speaking, English as a second language, or bilingual). The intensive, 9-month program included both English language instruction and teacher training…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), English Teacher Education
Fuentes, Edward J.; Wisenbaker, Joseph M. – 1979
As part of the evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I Migrant Program, this study investigated whether teacher judgment of oral language proficiency could be used as a covariate in analyzing the reading test scores of migrant children, so that their possible lack of English proficiency could be taken into account…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Elementary Education, Feasibility Studies, Group Testing
Ima, Kenji; Labovitz, Eugene M. – 1991
The differential effects of language proficiency on standardized test performance of elementary school students (grades 4 through 6 are examined for the San Diego (California) Unified School District. Ethnicity is examined as a mediating variable circumscribing the relationship between language proficiency and test performance. Test performance is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Asian Americans
Norwalk Board of Education, CT. – 1987
This report is designed to provide the Norwalk (Connecticut) Board of Education and the entire school community with the status of the school system testing program for the spring of 1987. From May 6 through May 15, the system administered the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBSs) and the Test of Cognitive Skills (TCS) to 5,113 students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Hadfield, Oakley D.; And Others – 1990
Of the many factors that have been proposed as a rationale for poor mathematics conceptualization by American Indians, cultural factors remain the most popular when explanations are submitted. Additionally, the accepted fault for poor achievement is focused upon mathematics anxiety. A study of American Indian school mathematics achievement and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Harmatuck, L. – 1977
Nearly 15,000 Wisconsin public school students in grades 4, 8, and 12 were tested in Spring, 1977, as part of the Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program. Objectives were: (1) to measure student progress in attaining specific mathematics objectives; (2) to determine how students compared nationally in reading, language, and mathematics; and (3) to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1980
The 1979-80 South Carolina Statewide Testing Program assessed the achievement of students in public school grades 3, 6, and 11. Results were used to facilitate the decision-making process of educators at the state, district, and school levels. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) were used to measure achievement in the basic skill areas…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment
