EOG Test Scores and Chinese Language Immersion Programs: An Inference from A Comprehensive Evaluation of a K-5 Chinese Language Immersion Program

Will Chinese language immersion programs improve students’ EOG test scores? In this study of K-5 students, overwhelming evidence has demonstrated that the students in this K-5 Chinese Language Immersion Program (CIP) scored significantly higher than the similar students, in non-immersion programs, in the key instructional areas of English reading, math, and science. Furthermore, CIP students clearly demonstrated consistently strong higher academic performance measured by the EOG test scores starting from the 3rd and continuing through the 5th grade. The synergistic component of the CIP is an exciting new concept and this study may be the first one to have comprehensively and statistically evaluated the CIP program in effort to prove or disprove this thesis. Based on the results of this study, the conclusion would be that yes indeed there is a strong correlation. CIP has a strong synergistic impact on other critical instructional areas. Although one study alone certainly does not resolve all questions, it clearly that CIP has much potential from the synergistic learning perspective. This is surely a very exciting development in K-5 education. This book is an exact copy my doctorate dissertation. My next book, which will be coming soon, will be the synthesized version designed to more directly explain how to set up and establish effective CIP programs in a K-5 setting to have maximal impact on both the direct goal of teaching Chinese language, and as well as the secondary and synergistic goal of helping the students who are in the CIP to have positive and synergistic improvement in the other important subject areas. This study demonstrates, although not conclusively, this positive synergistic relationship exists.