A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in reading (32% versus 10%)¶
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q2 i3 32% of BCIRC third graders scored above the 40th percentile on the NAPT reading test, qualifying to exit bilingual education, versus 10% of comparison students; the reported effect size was 0.87 and statistically significant. → Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition 2007
Evidence¶
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 from the Calderón, Hertz-Lazarowitz, and Slavin (1998) quasi-experiment, reported in Appendix A4.1 for 118 third graders with a printed effect size of 0.87, statistically significant, improvement index +31. The WWC summary calls this "an important and promising finding".
"At the end of third grade, 32% of students in the BCIRC group scored above the 40th percentile on the Norm-Referenced Assessment Program for Texas (NAPT) reading test, qualifying them to exit their bilingual education program. By contrast, only 10% of students in the comparison group met this criterion."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Two years of BCIRC exposure is associated with larger reading gains than one year (effect size 0.87 significant versus 0.33 non-significant) — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- 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
- A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in language (39% versus 21%), not statistically significant — related
- BCIRC has potentially positive effects on English language development (effect size 0.29, not statistically significant) — related
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A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in reading (32% versus 10%) |
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A larger percentage of BCIRC students met the bilingual education exit criterion in reading (32% versus 10%) |
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