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ERIC Number: ED280918
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 33
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Project PROBE, 1985-1986. OEA Evaluation Report.
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment.
In its second year of operation, Project PROBE (Professions Oriented Bilingual Education) experienced difficulty in meeting some of its instructional objectives. The project had sought to provide instructional and supportive services to 200 Spanish-speaking students from Latin America at Louis D. Brandeis High School (Manhattan, New York) and to 100 Vietnamese-born, Chinese-speaking students at Sheepshead Bay High School (Brooklyn, New York). PROBE's goal was to increase career awareness among students of limited English proficiency (LEP) through English as a second language (ESL) and native language arts instruction and through bilingual instruction in content-area subjects. This assessment reports the following findings: (1) students were successful in achieving the proposed English-language achievement objectives; (2) objective mastery in native language arts in Chinese and Spanish could not be assessed as proposed; (3) the project could not achieve its content-area passing rate objective; (4) the attendance rate of project students was significantly higher than the schoolwide rate; (5) the career awareness component was not being implemented at either site; (6) staff development and curriculum development activities were few; and (7) parental involvement in school functions could not be assessed because of missing data. (PS)
Office of Educational Assessment, New York City Board of Education, 110 Livingston St., Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A