A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in language (39% versus 21%), not statistically significant¶
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q2 i2 39% of BCIRC third graders scored above the 40th percentile on the NAPT language test versus 21% of comparison students; the reported effect size was 0.53 and not statistically significant. → Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition 2007
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Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition 2007¶
Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition. (2007). WWC Intervention Report. U.S. Department of Education, What Works Clearinghouse. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED405428
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Exit-criterion finding for English language development from the same quasi-experiment, Appendix A4.2, 118 third graders, printed effect size 0.53, ns, improvement index +20. The WWC could not confirm the effect size because subgroup standard deviations were not reported.
"At the end of third grade, 39% of students in the BCIRC group scored above the 40th percentile on the Norm-Referenced Assessment Program for Texas (NAPT) language test, qualifying them to exit their bilingual education program. By contrast, 21% of students in the comparison group met this criterion."
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Related Claims¶
- BCIRC has potentially positive effects on reading achievement for Spanish-speaking English language learners (effect size 0.61, not statistically significant after clustering correction) — related
- BCIRC has potentially positive effects on English language development (effect size 0.29, not statistically significant) — related
- A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in reading (32% versus 10%) — related
- Two years of BCIRC exposure is associated with larger reading gains than one year (effect size 0.87 significant versus 0.33 non-significant) — related
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A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in language (39% versus 21%), not statistically significant |
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A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in language (39% versus 21%), not statistically significant |
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