Assessing Evaluation Studies:

The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies

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Publication Year:1992

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Michael M. Meyer and Stephen E. Fienberg, Editors; Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council
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Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examines the goals of the studies and what can be ...
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Front Matter	i-x
1 Bilingual Education in the United States	1-11	(skim)
2 Research Methodology and Bilingual Education	12-23	(skim)
3 The Longitudinal Study	24-66	(skim)
4 The Immersion Study	67-89	(skim)
5 Lessons for the Future	90-100	(skim)
6 Conclusions and Recommendations	101-106	(skim)
Appendix A: Bilingual Education in the United States	107-112	(skim)
Appendix B: Trajectory Analysis of Matched Percentiles	113-118	(skim)
Appendix C: Acronyms	119-119	(skim)
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff	120-123	(skim)
References	124-128	(skim)

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Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examines the goals of the studies and what can be learned from them. In addition, using these studies as cases, this book provides guidelines on how to plan large evaluation studies to achieve useful answers to major policy questions about education.

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"This monograph offers the statistical and education communities a rare opportunity to get inside the heads of some of the best minds in educational research and statistical practice as they bring their collective expertise to bear on these two studies."--Chance: New Directions for Statistics and Computing

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