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Casey, Jean – 1977
This report on the Santa Clara Plus Assessment and Activities Program describes the development of the Santa Clara Inventory of Developmental Tasks and evaluates the program's effectiveness. Intended as an observational tool for teachers concerned with the development of readiness, the Inventory provides a procedure for: (1) observing children's…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Developmental Tasks, Diagnostic Teaching, Early Childhood Education
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
Information on the characteristics of working women in the United States and changing trends over the past quarter century are presented in this databook. (The primary source of the data is the Current Population Survey, which is conducted monthly for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of the Census.) Part 1 of the databook provides…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Educational Experience, Employed Women, Employment Experience
McClure, Erica – 1978
This research study focuses on two interrelated aspects of the development of bilingualism, the development of awareness of two separate linguistic systems and the occurence of interference phenomena. The research was conducted in a small town in East Central Illinois. The sample for the study included all the Mexican-American children enrolled in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Budgeting, and Evaluation. – 1977
Interim results of the study conducted to determine the effectiveness of federally funded bilingual education projects are described. Objectives were (a) to determine the cognitive and affective impact of bilingual education on students in Spanish/English bilingual education projects funded through ESEA Title VII, (b) to describe the educational…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education
Mangino, Evangelina; And Others – 1981
The evaluation of the 1981-82 State Compensatory Education (SCE) program, as implemented in the Austin Independent School District, will involve the following major activities: production of an Evaluation Design based on input received from key SCE personnel; production of a Final Report and a Technical Report which present information and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Shore, Rima, Ed.; And Others – 1981
This report describes, provides demographic data for, and evaluates the effectiveness of the Comprehensive High School Bilingual Program (C.H.S.B.P.), which provided staff and material resources to five high school Spanish, Chinese, and Italian bilingual programs in New York City. In 1980-81, C.H.S.B.P. served 468 students of limited English…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese, Community Involvement
McCrossan, Linda V. – 1981
Legal mandates and a demonstrated need for preservice and graduate instruction in bilingual and bicultural teacher education provided the impetus for initiating four programs at Northern Illinois University. This training program contains undergraduate and graduate program options in elementary education for the certification of bilingual…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Bachelors Degrees, Bilingual Teachers, Core Curriculum
Franco, Sandra Maciell – 1981
This course design is presented as an example of a computer assisted instructional program for adolescent Mexican American migrants. Like other migrants, they suffer from poor socioeconomic conditions, language and literacy problems, and intermittent classroom attendance. In addition, the regular American course of studies does not appear to have…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Audiolingual Skills, Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1979
This study analyzes the language attitudes of the Paraguayan people toward their two languages, Guarani and Spanish. To study the bilingual situation in the South American country, a pilot survey was carried out in the capital city addressing the major topics of language attitudes, language usage, and language varieties. The goals of the survey…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
Veltman, Calvin J. – 1980
Data from the 1976 Survey of Income and Education (SIE) were used to assess the role of language factors in the occupational and income attainment process of Hispanic men and women aged 25-64 in 1976. The SIE contained a relatively complete set of basic language-use questions designed to ascertain the mother tongue of adults, the usual language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingualism, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1977
A bilingual, bicultural program in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Experimental Schools Program, was designed to reverse "negative self concept, motivation, and attitudes" of its Mexican American students, and by so doing, improve their academic achievement. Efforts were employed to: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1976
A South Texas survey conducted in 1975 investigated the reading performance of Mexican American students enrolled in a bilingual program to determine whether or not students achieved significantly different reading scores on parallel Spanish and English versions of an appropriate test (Guidance Testing Associates Inter-American Test of Reading).…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
Reyna, Tadeo – 1980
Questionnaires were mailed to first, second, and third grade state bilingual education program teachers in five selected South Texas school districts to examine criteria used by state bilingual education program teachers to transfer limited English speaking ability (LESA) children from Spanish reading to English reading. Three-fourths of the 31…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Grade 1
Ortiz-Franco, Luis – 1979
While language has been the chief factor cited as causing Chicano youth to score below the majority population on mental and educational measurement scales, other explanatory factors identified by researchers over the years include socio-economic status, residential area (urban/rural), ethnicity and culture. Citations for 253 studies, books,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingualism, Competence
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1978
The exercises in the Spanish language workbook are intended to teach comprehension, interpretation, vocabulary, pronunciation, and study skills. The workbook provides one to five pages of reinforcement and follow-up work for each of the stories in the reader of the same title. Exercises stress sentence completion and construction, phonology,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Books, Childrens Literature, Educational Games
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