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Herrmann-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
Chu, Haiwen; Fong, Anthony B. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This report is part of a long-term collaboration of the Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative at WestEd with the Fort Worth Independent School District. The focus of this report is on a historical cohort of ninth graders who were enrolled at the International Newcomer Academy in the 2009-2010 school year. This report follows this cohort…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Low Income Students, Student Mobility
Chu, Haiwen; Fong, Anthony B. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This report is part of a long-term collaboration of the Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative at WestEd with the Fort Worth Independent School District. The focus of this report is on comparisons between ninth grade newcomers and other groups of English language learners (ELLs). Analyses compare newcomers to 1) long-term ELLs who were…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning