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Link, Depth, and Breadth: Comparing Arizona's ELP Standards to the Common Core and WIDA

abstract: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (2001) was a tipping point for the requirement of academic and English language proficiency standards. Yet, there continue to be variations among English language proficiency standards linked and aligned to academic content standards across states, districts, and schools (Golden, 2011). The purpose of this research was to examine how the requirement of only linking language proficiency standards to academic content standards has impacted the quality of Arizona English Language Proficiency Standards with the Common Core English Language Arts State Standards and WIDA Standards at grades 2, 7, and 9. A modified version of Cook's (2007) method was used to determine the standards alignment as well as common and uncommon knowledge between the sets of standard. Results indicate no alignment and limited linkage. Findings also showed absence of grade-level academic content and academic language. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2012

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:15172
Date January 2012
ContributorsNguyen, Tracy Robin (Author), Arias, M. Beatriz (Advisor), Blasingame, James (Committee member), Garcia, Eugene (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format208 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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