Quynh Tien Le

The effects of English language development curriculum materials on students’ English proficiency

Quynh Tien Le, Morgan Polikoff. April 2020

Topics: Standards, Assessment, and Curriculum

Tags: Multilingual learners, Curriculum

Castañeda v. Pickard (1981) mandated that educational programs for emergent bilinguals be tested for program efficacy. Since English language development (ELD) curricular materials are one part of an instructional program, we assess this mandate by examining the effectiveness of ELD materials in… more →
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The Formalized Processes Districts Use to Evaluate Mathematics Textbooks

Morgan Polikoff, Shauna E. Campbell, Cory Koedel, Quynh Tien Le, Tenice Hardaway, Hovanes Gasparian. May 2019

Topics: Standards, Assessment, and Curriculum

Tags: Curriculum, Mathematics education

Textbooks are a widely used educational intervention that can affect student achievement, and the marginal cost of choosing a more effective textbook is typically small. However, we know little about how textbooks get from the publisher to the classroom. We use a lens of institutional theory and… more →
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