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Download full textHerrmann-Abell, Cari F.; DeBoer, George E.; Trumbull, Elise; Sexton, Ursula M.; Glassman, Sara; Huang, Chun-Wei; Nelson-Barber, Sharon – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study is part of a larger effort to investigate linguistic features of assessment items that might explain differential performance of English learners on science assessments. An analysis of a large set of multiple-choice items suggested two features that held promise in reducing the performance gap: the presence of contrast words and the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Grade 9, Grade 8
