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Direct linkLazewnik, Rochel; Creaghead, Nancy A.; Smith, Allison Breit; Prendeville, Jo-Anne; Raisor-Becker, Lesley; Silbert, Noah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if a standardized assessment developed for Spanish-English dual language learners (SEDLLs) differentiates SEDLLs with language impairment (LI) from children with typical language better than the translated/adapted Spanish and/or English version of a standardized assessment and to determine if…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Bilingualism, Spanish, English
Download full textStraubhaar, Rolf – Berkeley Review of Education, 2021
Ideologies regarding what is "good" teaching undergird common teaching practices and pedagogical decisions, which may support and/or run counter to the broader policy environment in which they occur (Gibson, 1998). Drawing from a six-month ethnography of 10th-grade newcomer students from Mexico and their teachers in a Central Texas…
Descriptors: Accountability, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
Guerrero, Michael D.; Farruggio, Peter – Education Inquiry, 2012
The current era of neoliberal capitalism has witnessed the domination of public education by business interests which openly promote the spirit of competition among schools, educators and students through a policy of high stakes accountability for immediately measurable educational outcomes. In the USA, this policy proposes to make teacher…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Accountability, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedGilmore, George; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Investigates how the performance of Mexican-American children residing in the southwest U.S.A. compares with Koppitz's normative group on the Bender Gestalt Test for Young Children. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Mexican Americans, Primary Education
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1981
Summaries of ten dissertations are presented: (1) "Levels of Citizen Participation in Selected ESEA Title VII Bilingual Education Advisory Committees: An Exploratory Study of Power Relationships between Community Clients and School Authorities," by R. Rodriguez; (2) "The Construction and Validation of the Listening and Reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Chinese Americans, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Hardy, Roy – 1976
The CIRCO project is a large scale effort to design a series of diagnostic instruments, based on the CIRCUS tests, for Spanish-speaking children in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms in the United States. The goal is to develop measures with the following characteristics: (1) is suitable for use with Spanish-speaking children from…
Descriptors: Cubans, Culture Fair Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education
PDF pending restorationValencia, Atilano A. – 1971
The 1970-71 evaluation of the Grants, New Mexico, Bilingual Education Project is reported through narrative description of tests administered and their results, statistical findings from analyses of variance or covariance of test results, and conclusions and recommendations based on test results. In the evaluation, the 147 students in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Attitude Measures
Lopez, Hector L. – 1978
Because existing standardized college examination tests did not accurately measure the potential for learning of bilingual/bicultural populations, the Border Community College Consortium began in 1971 to develop two standardized tests to address the strengths and weaknesses of Mexican American students in writing, reading, and listening to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Carline, Donald A.; Hoffman, John R. – 1976
Conducted in schools, separated into control and experimental groups by geography, size, and number of bilingual teachers, the study examined whether the: (1) language experience approach yielded higher scores on a reading attitude test, a standardized reading test in English and one translated into Spanish; (2) reading gains and school attendance…
Descriptors: Age, Attendance, Bilingual Teachers, Comparative Analysis
Bortin, Barbara H. – 1971
Spanish/English bilingualism, grade-level academic achievement, and ethnic pride remained the goals of the bilingual education program in its second year of operation. A number of positive outcomes justify its continued operation and vertical expansion. Specific recommendations are made for continuation of staff training, development of bilingual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
