The Relationship Between English Proficiency and Content Knowledge for English Language Learner Students in Grades 10 and 11 in Utah

By Eric Crane, Vanessa X. Barrat, Min Huang

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This study, prepared by REL West, examines the relationship between performance on Utah’s English proficiency assessment and English language arts and mathematics content assessments by English language learner (ELL) students, and compares the performance of ELL and non-ELL students on the content assessments.

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Format: PDF
Pages: 26
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

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