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Jensen, Mishan – Online Submission, 2019
This report summarizes results from a 2019 spring survey of 8th-grade students in Austin Independent School District's middle school dual language program. Most students indicated they enjoyed the program, realized the academic benefits, and wanted to continue dual language in high school.
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Bilingual Education, Student Attitudes
Leung, Jenny – Online Submission, 2018
This report provides eighth-grade students' survey feedback on their experiences in the 2017-2018 middle school dual language program in the Austin Independent School District.
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Bilingual Education, Student Attitudes
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2017
This report documents how native English speaking students enrolled in the two-way dual language program at Austin Independent School District (AISD) performed on STAMP 4Se, a Spanish-language proficiency test during the 2016-2017 school year.
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2016
This report documents feedback obtained at two meetings with Austin Independent School District prekindergarten teachers regarding the dual language (DL) program. Participants were asked to provide input about DL program implementation in the 2015-2016 school year, and to discuss recommendations about proposed changes for the DL program delivery…
Descriptors: School Districts, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Education
Doolittle, Martha; Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2016
This report summarizes feedback from Austin Independent School District (AISD) elementary dual language teachers who participated in focus group discussions in January and February 2016. Teachers gave their opinions about the program components and suggestions for how to improve the program implementation.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response), School Districts, Program Effectiveness
Ibanez, Natalia – Online Submission, 2013
The report examines 2012-2013 Austin Independent School District (AISD) student academic performance results on the state academic test (STAAR), on an early reading test (Tejas Lee), on the Language Assessment Scales (LAS) Links, and on the state's English language proficiency test (TELPAS) for English language learners in the AISD dual language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Test Results
Ibanez, Natalia – Online Submission, 2014
This report summarizes results from Spring 2014 focus groups held with a sample of Austin Independent School District dual language program classroom teachers to find out their opinions about the dual language program.
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2015
This report examines dual language program implementation in three Texas public school districts similar to Austin Independent School District. The school districts are compared in terms of demographic composition, program implementation, and English language learner (ELL) students' academic performance in 2014 on the state's academic test, STAAR.
Descriptors: School Districts, Student Characteristics, English Language Learners, Disadvantaged Youth
Brunner, Josie – Online Submission, 2013
In 2012-2013, AISD pre-K students demonstrated growth in receptive vocabulary on a nationally-normed test. Students enrolled in multiple programs showed greater growth in receptive vocabulary in their native language than did other pre-K students. [Funding for this report was provided by Title I funds.]
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Receptive Language, School Readiness
Nafus, Charles – 1972
This content analysis schedule for the Region XIII Bilingual Education Program of Austin, Texas, presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
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Ligon, Glynn; And Others – 1974
Austin's Bilingual/Bicultural Project was designed to establish a comprehensive program of bilingual education in Spanish and English in schools with the highest concentration of Spanish dominant Mexican American students. The four participating elementary schools had already completed three years of a modest, locally sponsored bilingual project…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Curry, Janice; Zyskowski, Gloria – Online Submission, 2000
This report summarizes evaluation results from AISD's prekindergarten program during 1999-2000.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, School Schedules, Intelligence Tests
González, Rosa María – Online Submission, 2006
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's (AISD's) 2005-2006 bilingual and English as a second language programs.
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction