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| العنوان: |
What Factors Are Associated With Grade Acceleration? |
| المؤلفون: |
Wells, Ryan, Lohman, David, Marron, Maureen |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Advanced Academics; Winter2009, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p248-273, 26p, 5 Charts |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SECONDARY education, PUBLIC schools, ASIAN American students, GRADE levels |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| مستخلص: |
The benefits of whole-grade acceleration for the highest achieving students in K-12 education are widely acknowledged. However, much less is known about which personal, family, and school factors are correlated with student acceleration. Which children are grade accelerated in K-7 education? Have factors associated with grade acceleration changed over time? We analyze data from the NELS (students from 1988-1992) and the ELS (students from 2002-2004) nationally representative and longitudinal databases to answer these questions. other things being equal, females, Asian Americans, and students living on the U.S. east or west coast were more likely to be grade accelerated. For example, females had odds of being accelerated that were 1.3 times higher than the odds of males being accelerated. Students from the northeastern region of the U.S. had odds of acceleration that were nearly twice (1.9 times) as high as Midwest students' odds of acceleration. When accelerated students were compared to older classmates of similar achievement who were not accelerated, the accelerated students showed greater gains in achievement than nonaccelerated classmates in and throughout high school. In other words, accelerated students do not just keep up with their older classmates, they actually perform better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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