@article{10272/16277,
year = {2019},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16277},
abstract = {This systematic review intends to report on the strength of evidences supporting the quality
indicators (predictors) attributed to higher education bilingual, plurilingual or multilingual
practices and programs across four key dependent variables (outcomes) analyzed (i.e., student
performance, second language proficiency, employment, and motivation and attitudes). The
rapid growth of both offer and demand of this type of higher education and learning worldwide
requires the implementation of high-quality evaluation strategies and techniques to measure
potential causal links between interventions and results. To do so, a pre-specified systematic
review protocol following the Campbell Collaboration (2015) recommendations is designed and
implemented. The results suggest the urgent need to increase the primary research quality
standards in this sub-discipline by reducing bias in the processes of designing, implementing and
reporting research. Despite the scarcity of results sustained on statistical conclusions with the
higher statistical power found in this review, specific results of the dependent variables indicate
that this type of education benefits students’ performance and second language proficiency, with
a higher impact on receptive skills. Although no results were obtained concerning student employment,
other results point out that there is general satisfaction of participation with the
programs. Finally, several recommendations on how to scale up those quality research standards
in this sub-discipline are provided.},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {Bilingual programs},
keywords = {Higher education},
keywords = {Quality indicators},
keywords = {Evidence-based practices},
keywords = {Systematic review},
title = {A systematic review on evidences supporting quality indicators of bilingual, plurilingual and multilingual programs in higher education},
doi = {10.1016/j.edurev.2019.03.003},
author = {Rubio Alcalá, Fernando David and Arco Tirado, José Luis and Fernández Martín, Francisco D. and López Lechuga, Rocío and Barrios, Elvira and Pavón Vázquez, Víctor},
}