TY - JOUR
AU - Lam, Tony C.M.
AB - The quality of evaluation studies of the effects of bilingual education for language minority students, similar to the quality of educational evaluation in general, has been generally poor. This conclusion is based on the finding that, for the eight studies that reviewed the literature on the effectiveness of bilingual education, the mean percentage of evaluation or research reports which were judged methodologically acceptable for inclusion in these studies was 10% (median = 6%). A review of past and present publications, and federally funded projects, shows that some national efforts have been devoted to the improvement of bilingual education evaluation but that such efforts have apparently been unsuccessful. This article argues that the lack of sound and practical guidelines and materials, which precludes adequate technical assistance, is one cause of the inferior quality of evaluation practices. Other contributing factors are incompetent program evaluators, misinformed local administration, inappropriate state and federal policies, and the complex issues involved with bilingual education itself.
TI - Review of Practices and Problems in the Evaluation of Bilingual Education
JF - Review of Educational Research
DO - 10.3102/00346543062002181
DA - 1992-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/review-of-practices-and-problems-in-the-evaluation-of-bilingual-1O7VVbYySq
SP - 181
EP - 203
VL - 62
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -