Research investigating the effects of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs has been a topic of interest for the past decade. Federal funding stimulated the evaluation of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs around the nation, and a number of scholarly narrative reviews have been published on the topic. While the reviews have been valuable, the results have remained inconsistent and conflicting. This investigation used a meta-analytic approach to quantitatively integrate the results from 54 studies of the impact of New York City's Title VII Bilingual Education Programs on the academic achievement Asian-American students. / The present research synthesis offers quantitative evidence of a large, overall positive effect of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs. Across the 54 studies analyzed, the overall average pre-post effect size was 1.21 standard deviations for Asian students who participated in the bilingual program. This indicates that the overall post-test mean fell at approximately the 88 percentile of the pre-test distribution. In terms of subject areas, the effect sizes were: 1.21 for native language arts, 1.29 for English as a second language, and 1.14 for mathematics. These effect sizes of 1.21, 1.29, and 1.14 indicate that on the average, Asian students in bilingual programs scored at the 88th, 90th, and 87th percentiles of the respective pre-test distributions. In addition, equivalent results were found using goal achievement judgments reported by the original evaluators as input to a qualitative synthesis method developed for this investigation. / While these findings must be qualified by the fact that federal regulations precluded the use of a control group, one cannot dismiss achievement gains of this magnitude on the part of children previously identified as extremely low achievers. Thus, the results of this meta-analysis indicate that the effect of Bilingual Education Programs on academic achievement and attendance was educationally significant. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: A, page: 0447. / Major Professor: Garrett R. Foster. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76233 |
| Contributors | Oh, Sung Sam., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 84 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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