Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Identification and Assessment of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Students in Vocational Education Programs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309216737
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the allocation of federal funds for programs to assist these students to be proficient in English became formula-based: 80 percent on the basis of the population of children with limited English proficiency1 and 20 percent on the basis of the population of recently immigrated children and youth. Title III of NCLB directs the U.S. Department of Education to allocate funds on the basis of the more accurate of two allowable data sources: the number of students reported to the federal government by each state education agency or data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The department determined that the ACS estimates are more accurate, and since 2005, those data have been basis for the federal distribution of Title III funds. Subsequently, analyses of the two data sources have raised concerns about that decision, especially because the two allowable data sources would allocate quite different amounts to the states. In addition, while shortcomings were noted in the data provided by the states, the ACS estimates were shown to fluctuate between years, causing concern among the states about the unpredictability and unevenness of program funding. In this context, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the National Research Council to address the accuracy of the estimates from the two data sources and the factors that influence the estimates. The resulting book also considers means of increasing the accuracy of the data sources or alternative data sources that could be used for allocation purposes.
Identification, Assessment and Placement of Limited English Proficiency Students in Vocational Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Serving Limited English Proficient Students in Vocational Education
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Identification, Assessment and Placement of Limited English Proficiency Students in Vocational Education
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reviews of English Language Proficiency Tests
Author: J. Charles AldersonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This guide contains descriptive and evaluative information on 47 major commercially-available English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) tests in current use around the world. For each test, the following information is provided: complete title; acronym; publication date; targeted audience; intended purpose; scoring method; administration type (group or individual); test length; test components; costs; author(s); publisher, including complete address and telephone number; a review, which includes a description of the test and discussion of its reliability, validity, and related issues; and test and reviewer's references. An introductory section offers guidance on the use of the reviews, uses and misuses of testing, and purposes of testing (placement, measuring achievement, diagnosis, measuring proficiency). In addition, two sections provide an introduction to ESL proficiency testing in North America and an overview of ESL testing in Britain. (MSE)
Recent Department of Education Publications in ERIC
Author: United States. Dept. of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : ERIC (Information retrieval system)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Recent Publications of the Department of Education
Author: United States. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Recent Department of Education Publications in ERIC
Author: United States. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : ERIC (Information retrieval system)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description