This report presents an evaluation of Bilingual Enrichment Services and Training (Project BEST), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation at four schools in Manhattan. The project served 266 Cantonese-, Fukienese, and Mandarin-speaking gifted students of limited English proficiency. Participating students received instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), native language arts (NLA) and content subjects. Content area instruction used one of three approaches: (1) Cantonese and Mandarin only; (2) Cantonese and Mandarin supplemented by English; and (3) English with an ESL methodology. Staff development workshops and parent participation activities were integral to the project. An evaluation of Project BEST found that it met its objectives for NLA, the content areas of mathematics, science, and social studies, instrument identification, curriculum and staff development, and parental involvement. It failed to meet its objective for placement in Intellectually Gifted Children's (IGC) classes. Recommendations on program improvement are included. Two appendixes include a list of instructional materials and resource center materials used. (MDM)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Research.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Evaluative
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Bilingual Enrichment Services and Training 2
- Community School District 2 Manhattan 2
- Bilingual Enrichment Services and Training 3
- Ms. Lancy Wong Director New York NY 10011 3
- Dr. Tomi Deutsch Berney 110 Livingston Street Room 732 6
- Project Context Project Implementation Parent and Community Involvement Activities 7
- Instruments of Measurement Data Collection and Analysis 7
- Participants Educational Progress English Language Classrooms Instrument Identification 7
- Achievement of Objectives Most and Least Effective Components Recommendation to Enhance Project Effectiveness 7
- Language Assessment Battery by Site 8
- Came from low-income households. 9
- -.a 1 and P.S. 42 were housed in buildings dating from the turn of the 10
- 45.1 percent. 10
- Site and Grade 10
- Transfiguration School 10
- China 11
- Staff Development Objectives 12
- Checklist and Questionnaire. 13
- Project participants received 13
- N.LA.. Content area classes used bilingual instructional methodologies. At the 13
- 92nd Street Young Mens Hebrew Associations Y.M.H.A.s MUSIC PLUS program. 15
- Position Title 16
- Resource teacher 16
- Cantonese TP 16
- H.S. diploma 16
- Cantonese TP 16
- Length ef Time Participants Received Instruction 17
- Non-Proiect Group 19
- Ail students were tested at the appropriate grade level. The language of the 20
- According to the publitters test manuals all standardized tests used to gauge 20
- English version ranged from .88 to .96 for individual subtests and from .95 to .98 for 20
- New York State E.S.E.A. Title VII Bilingual Education Final Evaluation Report format 21
- The only possie threat to the validity of any of the above instruments might 22
- Childrens I.G.C. classes. The project director reported that there was a lack of 24
- Language Assessment Battery by Site 25
- LEP Participants Academic Achievement 27
- The evaluation objective for mathematics was 27
- The OREA evaluation consultant observed a sixth grade science class of 21 27
- 14.3 percent last year. 29
- Project BEST did not propose any objectives for grade retention. None of 29
- China in 1992 and participated in Project BEST in the sixth grade. She made a 30
- National Dragon Dance. She composed lyrics for a song of her own which she 31
- The project proposed one- objective for the identification of Chinese-speaking 31
- Chinese LEP children in 32
- The project met its obctive for the activities of a gifted and talented 34
- Checklist and Questionnaire. 34
- Author 38
- Trade Books- 38
- Tune into English 38
- Longman English- 38
- Steps to English 38
- Children - BCD 38
- Author Publication 39
- China 39
- Book Store 39
- Chao 39
- Chinese Fables 39
- Language Art 39
- Chinese Language Hong Kong 39
- Instructional Materials contd. 40
- Janet Abott 40
- Science 40
- Author 40
- E. Cooper et al. 40
- Holt Science J Abruscats et al. 40
- Science in Your Life 40
- Social Studies 41
- Author 41
- Noble and 41
- Language Development 41
- Publishing Co. 41
- Holt Social Studies 41
- Heath Social Studies D.C. Heath 41
