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  1. Assessing ESL/EFL writing
    research in primary, secondary and tertiary education
  2. Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
  3. Exploring multilingual writers in secondary education: insights from a trilingual corpus

    Abstract: This study aims at contributing to the field of multilingual writing and providing evidence for Cummins’ Common Underlying Proficiency Hypothesis (CUP) through analysing trilingual writing among secondary education students enrolled in a... more

     

    Abstract: This study aims at contributing to the field of multilingual writing and providing evidence for Cummins’ Common Underlying Proficiency Hypothesis (CUP) through analysing trilingual writing among secondary education students enrolled in a Basque immersion program. The main objective of the present study is to explore the relationships between participants’ compositions in their three languages of schooling (Basque, Spanish and English). A trilingual corpus of argumentative scientific writing essays was collected from a sample of 113 secondary education students. The texts were analysed with MultiAzterTest to retrieve complexity, accuracy and fluency measures. Correlational analyses were performed to explore correlations of each measure across languages, and low-moderate correlations were found between most measures and their counterparts. Specifically, accuracy and fluency measures showed stronger between-language relationships, which were especially salient between Basque and Spanish. Findings suggest that multilingual learners exhibit similar across-language patterns in the writing process, thus supporting Cummins’ CUP. The emerging similarities have important implications for bi/multilingual education programs, as they might inform curriculum design and instruction to foster crosslinguistic transfer and metalinguistic multilingual awareness. Este estudio pretende contribuir al campo de la escritura multilingüe y apoyar empíricamente la Hipótesis de la Competencia Subyacente Común (CUP) de Cummins mediante el análisis de redacciones en las tres lenguas de estudiantes del modelo de inmersión en Euskera. El objetivo principal de la investigación es explorar las relaciones entre las redacciones en las tres lenguas de escolarización: Euskara, Español e Inglés. El corpus analizado es un corpus trilingüe formado por las redacciones argumentativas sobre la disciplina de ciencias de 113 estudiantes de educación secundaria. Los textos se analizaron con MultiAzterTest para evaluar las dimensiones de complejidad, precisión y fluidez en cada lengua. Se realizaron análisis correlacionales para explorar las relaciones de cada medida entre los tres idiomas, y, principalmente, se encontraron correlaciones bajas y moderadas entre las medidas y sus contrapartes. En particular, las medidas de precisión y fluidez mostraron correlaciones más fuertes que las de complejidad, especialmente entre Euskera y Español. Los resultados sugieren la existencia de patrones similares entre las lenguas de los y las aprendices multilingües, lo que concuerda con la hipótesis de Cummins. Estas similitudes tienen implicaciones importantes para programas educativos bilingües y multilingües, en tanto que pueden orientar tanto el diseño como los modelos de instrucción para fomentar la transferencia entre lenguas y la conciencia metalingüística. Diese Studie zielt darauf ab, einen Beitrag zum Bereich des mehrsprachigen Schreibens zu leisten und Belege für Cummins’ Hypothese der gemeinsamen Sprachkompetenz (CUP) zu liefern. Zu diesem Zweck wurden dreisprachige Texte von Sekundarschülern untersucht, die an einem baskischen Immersionsprogramm teilnehmen. Das Hauptziel dieser Studie besteht darin, die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Kompositionen der Teilnehmer (n=113) in ihren drei Sprachen (Baskisch, Spanisch und Englisch) zu untersuchen. Ein dreisprachiger Korpus von argumentativen wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen wurde gesammelt. Die Texte wurden mit MultiAzterTest analysiert, um Komplexität, Korrektheit und Flüssigkeit zu messen. Korrelationsanalysen wurden durchgeführt, um die Korrelationen zwischen den einzelnen Messwerten zwischen den Sprachen zu untersuchen. Korrelationen zwischen Sprachen wurden festgestellt, inbesondere die Messungen zur Korrektheit und Flüssigkeit zeigten stärkere Korrelationen zwischen den Sprachen, vor allem zwischen Baskisch und Spanisch. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass mehrsprachige Lernende ähnliche sprachübergreifende Muster im Schreibprozess aufweisen, was Cummins’ CUP unterstützt. Diese Ergebnisse haben wichtige Implikationen für zwei/mehrsprachige Bildungsprogramme, um den sprachübergreifenden Transfer und das metalinguistische mehrsprachige Bewusstsein zu fördern. Ikerketa lan honekin idazketa eleanitzaren arloari ekarpena egin nahi zaio eta Cummins-en Azpiko Gaitasun Komunaren Hipotesia (CUP) enpirikoki frogatu. Horretarako, murgiltze-ereduko bigarren hezkuntzako ikasleen idazlanak aztertu dira. Lan honen helburu nagusia da ikasleen hiru eskolatze-hizkuntzen (euskara, gaztelera eta ingelesa) arteko eragina eta harremanak aztertzea. Lagina bigarren hezkuntzako 113 ikaslek osatzen dute, eta corpusa haiek euskaraz, gaztelaniez eta ingelesez ekoitzitako arloko argudio-testuekin sortu da. Corpusa MultiAzterTest tresnarekin aztertu da konplexutasuna, zuzentasuna eta jariotasuna neurtzeko. Neurri guztiekin korrelazio-analisiak egin dira hizkuntzen arteko harremanak aztertzeko, eta korrelazio baxu-ertainak aurkitu dira neurri gehienen artean. Zuzentasun eta jariotasun dimentsioek erakutsi dituzte korrelazio indartsuagoak batez ere, bereziki euskara eta gazteleraren artean. Emaitzek erakusten dute ikasle eleanitzen idazketa patroiak antzekoak direla hiru hizkuntzetan, beraz, Cummins-en CUP hipotesia baieztatzen da. Aurkitutako antzekotasunek hezkuntza-programa elebidun eta eleanitzetarako ondorio esanguratsuak izan ditzakete, hizkuntzen arteko transferentziak eta kontzientzia metalinguistikoa garatzen duten kurrikulum eta esku-hartzeak diseinatze aldera.

     

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    Enthalten in: European journal of applied linguistics; Berlin : de Gruyter, 2013-; 12, Heft 2 (2024), 282-307 (gesamt 26); Online-Ressource
    Other subjects: Mehrsprachigkeit; Schreiben; CAF; gemeinsame Sprachkompetenz; Sekundarstufe; Multilingualism; writing; CAF; common underlying proficiency; secondary education
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  4. Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
  5. Assessing ESL/EFL writing
    research in primary, secondary and tertiary education
  6. Solomon Islands
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    Published: January 2022
    Publisher:  International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.

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  7. Requirements to be a teacher in Brazil
    effective or not?
    Published: September 2019
    Publisher:  World Bank Group, Education Global Practice, [Washington, DC, USA]

    Policy makers in Brazil attempted to improve human capital through changes in the legislated requirements for teacher education in 1996. They passed a national Law of Guidelines and Standards of Education that established 2007 as the deadline for all... more

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    Policy makers in Brazil attempted to improve human capital through changes in the legislated requirements for teacher education in 1996. They passed a national Law of Guidelines and Standards of Education that established 2007 as the deadline for all Brazilian basic education teachers to have tertiary education-level qualifications. This implied a significant change in the profile of teachers in basic education and in the provision of pre-service training. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the increase in the share of public upper secondary school teachers with higher education on students' performance in math and Portuguese and analyze the role of the pre-service training framework in the quality of teachers in recent years. The study carried out an empirical analysis to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated on public upper secondary students through the combination of difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods. The analysis found no evidence of positive effects on Portuguese scores, and despite the statistically significant positive effect of the rise in teachers with higher education on math scores, there was no effect from specific math training. Finally, the paper discusses the possible reason for the ineffectiveness of teacher pre-service training, such as the quality of the training delivered by distance learning modalities and the low performance of the secondary students who enter the teacher schools

     

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    Series: Policy research working paper ; 9006
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    Subjects: teacher quality; teacher education requirements; secondary education
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  8. Secondary school enrolment and teenage childbearing
    evidence from Brazilian municipalities
    Published: July 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and... more

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    This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools across 4,884 municipalities to instrument for school enrolment. Our most conservative estimate suggests that for every 9.7 students enrolled there is one fewer teenage births. These findings are robust to a number of specifications and sensitivity tests. Our estimates imply that Brazil's secondary school expansion accounts for 34% of the substantial decline in teenage childbearing observed over the same period. We further look at heterogeneous effects across a number of municipal characteristics and discuss what these results suggest about the mechanisms underlying the school-childbearing relationship.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12504
    Subjects: secondary education; teenage childbearing; Brazil
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  9. Effectively involving low-SES parents in human capital development
    evidence from a field experiment
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht

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    Series: ROA research memorandum / Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt ; ROA-RM-2019, 8 (September 2019)
    Subjects: parental involvement; randomized field experiment; socio-economic status (SES); student effort; human capital development; secondary education
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  10. Modern secondary education and economic performance
    the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ., Volkswirtschaftl. Fak., München

    Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its... more

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    Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its successor, the Realschule, in nineteenth-century Bavaria. Since opening of these schools is arguably endogenous - as it were mainly the prosperous, big cities that opened one - the estimated treatment effect capturing the economic influence of the Gewerbeschule/Realschule will lead to biased results. To alleviate this bias, I adopt propensity score matching to compare relatively alike counties with and without these schools. Using historical county-level data on business formations, tax revenues, employment structure, and patent holdings, OLS regression analysis shows that the opening of a modern secondary school is in general positively associated with economic performance several years later.

     

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    Series: Munich discussion paper ; 2014-47
    Subjects: human capital; secondary education; economic history; economic development; Bavaria
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  11. Grade retention and unobserved heterogeneity
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation... more

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    We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing unobserved individual characteristics. Class-size and latent student-performance indices are assumed to follow finite mixtures of normal distributions. Grade retention may increase or decrease the student’s knowledge capital in a type-dependent way. Our estimation results show that the Average Treatment effect on the Treated (ATT) of grade retention on test scores is small but positive at the end of grade 9. The ATT of grade retention is higher for the weakest students. We also show that class size is endogenous and tends to increase with unobserved student ability. The Average Treatment Effect (ATE) of grade retention is negative, again with the exception of the weakest group of students. Grade repetitions reduce the probability of access to grade 9 of all student types.

     

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    Series: Array ; 4846
    Subjects: secondary education; grade retention; unobserved heterogeneity; finite mixtures of normal distributions; treatment effects; class-size effects
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