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THREE METHODOLOGY 98
Introduction 98
Organization 99
Instrumentation 99
School Program 101
Student Population Description 102
Data Collection 103
Test Validity and Reliability 109
Inter-American Series Reading Test 109
Language Assessment Battery 110
Language Assessment Scales Ill
Data Analysis 113
FOUR RESULTS 115
Hypothesis and Research Questions One 116
Quantitative Measures of Expressive Language.... 117
Discussion of findings on expressive
language 117
Teachers' Ratings of Oral Proficiency 119
Discussion of teachers' ratings 120
Composition of Language Scores 122
Measures of listening 123
Discussion of listening scores 123
Measures of reading 125
Discussion of reading scores 125
Correlations of written measures by age
and sex 125
Correlations of oral and written measures.... 128
Comparison of Male and Female Students 130
Entire Cuban Group 130
Stanine scores 134
Writing subsection 138
Discussion of Findings Regarding Hypothesis
and Research Questions One 138
Conclusions Regarding Hypothesis and Research
Questions One 146
Hypothesis and Research Question Two 146
Students and Parents 147
Description of the students 148
Student surveys 151
Results of student survey 151
Results of parent survey 154
Students' and parents' self-rating of
language 180
Correlations of students' and parents' self-
ratings 180
Discussion of results of students' and
parents' surveys 181
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