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Article: Opportunity to Learn, Language Proficiency, and Immigrant Status Effects on Mathematics Achievement.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Educational Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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This study draws on and extends the growing literature on opportunity to learn (OTL) and school achievement to address the question of why limited-English proficiency (LEP) and immigrant students, especially immigrant LEP students, perform poorly in mathematics. We explored the hypothesis that those students are channeled by schools (or self-selected) into less demanding sequences of courses, thereby reducing their opportunity to master core subjects in the curriculum. Prior research has not carefully considered the OTL effect and its combined outcomes with students' language proficiency and immigrant status on student achievement. Ignoring English language proficiency ...