Performance of English Language Learners as a Subgroup in Large-Scale Assessment: Interaction of Research and Policy

By Jamal Abedi, Patricia Gándara. 2007

217 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ebfb054cff29f32c1bb3fa00fdac5f92df44a08a

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In Education

1. Richard P. Durán
2. Jamal Abedi
3. Michael J. Kieffer
4. John P. Robinson
5. Kate Menken

In Language and Linguistics

1. Richard P. Durán
2. Jamal Abedi

Citations in the corpus

• Classification System for English Language Learners: Issues and Recommendations (2008, background): “This rapid growth demands that we consistently and accurately determine which students require English language services (Abedi & Gandara, 2006).”
• Assessing English-Language Learners’ Achievement (2008, background): “…to ELLs is based overwhelmingly on what state policies specify as a permissible accommodation (that presumably is convenient for local schools to administer) and not on a linguistic rationale intended to reduce English language load faced by ELL examinees on an assessment (Abedi & Gandara, 2006).”