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Impact of Inclusion of Varying Percentages of Repeaters on Equating
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Rogers, W. Todd; Radwan, Nizam – International Journal of Testing, 2015
Restricted equating samples are often used to equate test results. Previously eligible students may be excluded because this group of students is not stable from year to year and their inclusion may bias the results. The present study evaluated the impact of including previously eligible students in the equating samples, where the percentage of…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Equated Scores, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
Students' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the English Program Taught at the College of Technological Studies in Kuwait
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Aldaihani, Hussein A.; Shuqair, Khaled M.; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.; Alrabah, Sulaiman – English Language Teaching, 2015
This research aims at examining the Students' perceptions of the effectiveness of the English program implemented in the College of Technological Studies in Kuwait. A sample of 242 students was randomly selected from the population. The students were asked to respond to a 21-statement questionnaire designed to obtain information about how they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, English Instruction, English (Second Language)
La Realidad de la Adquisicion del Lenguaje Oral y Escrito en una Muestra de Escuelas del Sector sur de Santiago. [The Reality of the Acquisition of Oral and Written Language in a Sample of Schools in the Southern Part of Santiago.]
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Oyarce, Carmen Diaz; Mujica, Elena Alvarez-Salamanca – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2001
Investigated reading and writing skills of socioeconomically deprived first graders in Santiago, Chile. Found that the children had low achievement in reading and writing and at the end of the school year had not acquired sufficient linguistic competence to successfully master these skills. Also found a dissociation between observed practice and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
The Challenges of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test for Second Language Students
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Cheng, Liying; Klinger, Don A.; Zheng, Ying – Language Testing, 2007
Results from the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) indicate that English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Literacy Development (ELD) students have comparatively low success and high deferral rates. This study examined the 2002 and 2003 OSSLT test performances of ESL/ELD and non-ESL/ELD students in order to identify and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Literacy
Challenging Adult Illiteracy: Reading and Writing Disabilities in the British Army.
Stevenson, Colin – 1985
The study described in this book was designed to create an overall picture of the type of student found at a school for educationally substandard army recruits in England, to establish the causes of the student's educational backwardness and relate these to linguistic performance, and to compare the effectiveness of the approaches and methods used…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy