The attainment of pupils in Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland
| Autor: | Wilson McLeod, Lindsay Paterson, Fiona O'Hanlon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Linguistics and Language
genetic structures Bilingual education media_common.quotation_subject education Judgement Indo-European languages Primary education eye diseases Language and Linguistics Educational attainment Literacy Education Social deprivation Reading (process) Mathematics education sense organs Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 16:707-729 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7522 1367-0050 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13670050.2012.711807 |
| Popis: | The curricular attainment of pupils in Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland is investigated using surveys of Gaelic-medium and English-medium pupils in the fifth and seventh years of primary school (approximately 9 and 11 years of age) in 2007. The Gaelic-medium survey was essentially a census of pupils. The English-medium survey was a clustered random sample of 25% of pupils. Attainment was assessed in Gaelic reading and writing (for the Gaelic-medium pupils), and English reading and writing, mathematics and science (for both Gaelic-medium and English-medium pupils). Science was assessed by tests administered as part of the survey; attainment in the other curricular areas was assessed by teacher judgement. The measures were analysed using multi-level modelling, with pupils grouped in schools (and, for some purposes with multivariate outcomes, with measures nested in pupils), and with controls for gender and social deprivation. While most Gaelic-medium pupils were performing in Gaelic at the level ... |
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