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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL FOR GAO-24-106360: Technical Materials for Regression Analyses on Student, Teacher, and School Characteristics Associated with English Learners' Academic Performance

GAO-24-107485 Published: Jul 25, 2024. Publicly Released: Aug 26, 2024.
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In the U.S., students whose native language isn't English may have academic trouble in school, where the instruction is primarily delivered in English. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of students learning English grew from 4.5 to 5 million in K-12 schools.

For our recent Q&A report on this topic, we performed regression analyses on three Department of Education datasets to test the association between student performance and specific student, teacher, and school characteristics.

This supplement presents technical details on our analyses and the full results.

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This electronic supplement serves as a companion to GAO's report entitled, K-12 Education: Student, Teacher, and School Characteristics Associated with English Learners' Academic Performance, GAO-24-106360. This supplement presents technical information about regression analyses of three Department of Education Datasets.

For more information, contact Jacqueline M. Nowicki at (202) 512-7215 or NowickiJ@gao.gov.

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Academic performanceTest scoresStudentsTeachersEnglish proficiencyLanguage instructionSchoolsPerformance measurementKindergartenHispanic Americans