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Why Is Bilingual Education Research So Bad? A Critique of the Walsh and Carballo Study of Massachusetts Bilingual Education Programs. Working Paper 86-5.
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Rossell, Christine H. – 1986
The Walsh and Carballo evaluation of the effectiveness of transitional bilingual education programs in five Massachusetts communities, has the following flaws: (1) the sample of school districts studied suffered from "self-selection bias"; (2) the sample does not include a single large, urban school district; (3) the student samples…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Control Groups, English Instruction, Experimental Groups