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Peer reviewedAbedi, Jamal; Lord, Carol – Applied Measurement in Education, 2001
Studied the importance of language in student test performance on mathematics word problems using items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics assessment. Results for 1,174 eighth graders show that students who were English language learners scored lower on the math test than proficient English speakers and that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Language Proficiency
