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Direct linkErcikan, Kadriye; Chen, Michelle Y.; Lyons-Thomas, Juliette; Goodrich, Shawna; Sandilands, Debra; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Simon, Marielle – International Journal of Testing, 2015
The purpose of this research is to examine the comparability of mathematics and science scores for students from English language backgrounds (ELB) and non-English language backgrounds (NELB). We examine the relationship between English reading proficiency and performance on mathematics and science assessments in Australia, Canada, the United…
Descriptors: Scores, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests, Native Speakers
Download full textCheng, Tzung-yu – Online Submission, 2013
This study was carried out to seek the correlations of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests (GMRT), a norm-referenced reading test used in the United States, with the AST and the GSAT English tests, the two most important college entrance English tests held annually in Taiwan. The AST group comprised 53 students, and the GSAT group included 171…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Butler, Yuko Goto; Hakuta, Kenji – Reading Psychology, 2009
This study investigates the relationship between oral proficiency and reading proficiency in English-learning children (L2 students) and native English-speaking children (NE students). A set of oral activities measuring students' academic oral skills in science classes was developed and administered to 61 fourth graders. Both the meaning-related…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness
Hakimzadeh, Shirin; Cohn, D'Vera – Pew Hispanic Center, 2007
Nearly all Hispanic adults born in the United States of immigrant parents report they are fluent in English. By contrast, only a small minority of their parents describe themselves as skilled English speakers. This finding of a dramatic increase in English-language ability from one generation of Hispanics to the next emerges from a new analysis of…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Language Aptitude, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants
Gorman, David; Ernst, Megan L. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2004
Lifelong learning has become an important goal of education over the last decade. According to the United States Department of Education (2001), nearly 3 million students over age 17 (excluding those institutionalized) enrolled in adult basic education, adult secondary education, or English as a second language classes in the United States.…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Adult Basic Education, Lifelong Learning, Test Reviews
Wolfe, Paula – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
According to recent U.S. census reports, while the population of the United States increased by 10%, the population speaking languages other than English at home increased by 38% between 1980 and 1990. One in six of all youth in the United States, ages 14 to 19, either speaks a language other than English at home, was born in a foreign country, or…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Ability, Minority Groups, English (Second Language)
