東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

English language proficiency and tea...

Freberg, Miranda E.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

English language proficiency and teacher judgments of the academic and interpersonal competence of English language learners.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	English language proficiency and teacher judgments of the academic and interpersonal competence of English language learners./
Author:	Freberg, Miranda E.
Description:	132 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-11A(E).
Subject:	Education, Educational Psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3583356
ISBN:	9781321147865

English language proficiency and teacher judgments of the academic and interpersonal competence of English language learners.
Freberg, Miranda E.

English language proficiency and teacher judgments of the academic and interpersonal competence of English language learners. - 132 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The purpose of the study was to investigate how English language proficiency is related to teacher judgments of students' academic and interpersonal competence. It was hypothesized that English Language Learner (ELL) students would generally be perceived as having weaker academic and interpersonal skills than their non-ELL counterparts regardless of race/ethnicity. Additionally, it was proposed that teachers' ratings would be more predictive of the performance of non-ELL versus ELL students. Data were obtained from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K). Participants were 260 third-grade students whose academic and interpersonal skills were rated by their teachers on the Academic Rating Scale (ARS; Atkins-Burnett, Meisels, & Correnti, 2000) and Social Rating Scale (SRS; Atkins-Burnett, Meisels, & Correnti, 2000), respectively. Teachers' academic ratings were compared to students' actual performance on the reading and math sections of the ECLS-K direct cognitive assessment and teachers' interpersonal ratings were compared to students' self-ratings on the Self-Description Questionnaire (SDQ; Marsh, 1990). Multiple regression analyses were used to assess the effects of language status and race/ethnicity on teacher ratings. Additional regression analyses were conducted to investigate whether teacher ratings were predictive of students' academic performance and students' self-ratings of interpersonal skills. Results showed that, in contrast to what was hypothesized, teacher ratings were not significantly related to language status, but race/ethnicity was found to be a significant predictor of both academic and social ratings. Specifically, teachers rated African American students as having weaker reading and interpersonal skills than their Hispanic counterparts. As hypothesized, teacher ratings were found to be more predictive for non-ELL students on math and reading skills than ELL students. These findings suggest that race/ethnicity may be more of an influential factor than language status when teachers make academic and interpersonal judgments and support previous research (e.g., Hodson, Dovidio, & Gaertner, 2002; Jussim & Eccles, 1995) that teachers may have pre-existing biases towards students of different races or ethnicities. Additionally, given the lower predictive accuracy of teacher ratings of ELL than non-ELL students, teachers may need more training to work with and to ensure a fair assessment of ELL students' academic capabilities.

ISBN: 9781321147865Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017560
Education, Educational Psychology.

English language proficiency and teacher judgments of the academic and interpersonal competence of English language learners.
LDR:03651nmm a2200313 4500 001 2056677
005 20150608135940.5
008 170521s2014 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781321147865
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3583356
035 $a AAI3583356
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Freberg, Miranda E. $3 3170449
245 1 0 $a English language proficiency and teacher judgments of the academic and interpersonal competence of English language learners.
300 $a 132 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
500 $a Advisers: Beverly J. Vandiver; James D. DiPerna.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2014.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
506 $a This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.
520 $a The purpose of the study was to investigate how English language proficiency is related to teacher judgments of students' academic and interpersonal competence. It was hypothesized that English Language Learner (ELL) students would generally be perceived as having weaker academic and interpersonal skills than their non-ELL counterparts regardless of race/ethnicity. Additionally, it was proposed that teachers' ratings would be more predictive of the performance of non-ELL versus ELL students. Data were obtained from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K). Participants were 260 third-grade students whose academic and interpersonal skills were rated by their teachers on the Academic Rating Scale (ARS; Atkins-Burnett, Meisels, & Correnti, 2000) and Social Rating Scale (SRS; Atkins-Burnett, Meisels, & Correnti, 2000), respectively. Teachers' academic ratings were compared to students' actual performance on the reading and math sections of the ECLS-K direct cognitive assessment and teachers' interpersonal ratings were compared to students' self-ratings on the Self-Description Questionnaire (SDQ; Marsh, 1990). Multiple regression analyses were used to assess the effects of language status and race/ethnicity on teacher ratings. Additional regression analyses were conducted to investigate whether teacher ratings were predictive of students' academic performance and students' self-ratings of interpersonal skills. Results showed that, in contrast to what was hypothesized, teacher ratings were not significantly related to language status, but race/ethnicity was found to be a significant predictor of both academic and social ratings. Specifically, teachers rated African American students as having weaker reading and interpersonal skills than their Hispanic counterparts. As hypothesized, teacher ratings were found to be more predictive for non-ELL students on math and reading skills than ELL students. These findings suggest that race/ethnicity may be more of an influential factor than language status when teachers make academic and interpersonal judgments and support previous research (e.g., Hodson, Dovidio, & Gaertner, 2002; Jussim & Eccles, 1995) that teachers may have pre-existing biases towards students of different races or ethnicities. Additionally, given the lower predictive accuracy of teacher ratings of ELL than non-ELL students, teachers may need more training to work with and to ensure a fair assessment of ELL students' academic capabilities.
590 $a School code: 0176.
650 4 $a Education, Educational Psychology. $3 1017560
650 4 $a Education, English as a Second Language. $3 1030294
650 4 $a Education, Elementary. $3 516171
690 $a 0525
690 $a 0441
690 $a 0524
710 2 $a The Pennsylvania State University. $b School Psychology. $3 3170450
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 75-11A(E).
790 $a 0176
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2014
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3583356