Nine of ten scored treatment-group participants performed at high-intermediate or advanced ESL reading comprehension levels on the TABE-CLAS-E posttest¶
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q2 i? After converting scaled scores to proficiency levels, 9 out of 10 scored treatment participants were at high-intermediate or advanced reading comprehension on the posttest. → Martinez 2017
Evidence¶
Martinez 2017¶
Liza E. Martinez. (2017). Adult Hispanic ESL Students and Graded Readers. The CATESOL Journal, 29(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1164286
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Analysis of standardized TABE-CLAS-E reading results for the treatment group, with level 4 administered as posttest and scores converted to proficiency levels 1-6. The article reports only one participant dropped a level, and no inferential statistics are printed.
"In all, 9 out of 10 participants scored at the high-intermediate or advanced reading comprehension levels."
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