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Direct linkOlivia Johnston; Suzanne Macqueen; Wei Zhang; Nerida Spina; Rebecca Spooner-Lane – Educational Studies, 2025
Many schools choose to organise students into classes according to their perceived "ability", despite evidence that the practice is not beneficial for students, overall. Class grouping by "ability" can exacerbate existing social inequalities by segregating students according to pre-existing educational advantage, which has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ability Grouping, Student Placement, Secondary Schools
Download full textPeddell, Lewes; Lynch, David; Waters, Richard; Boyd, Wendy; Willis, Royce – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
Education systems across the globe have enacted national testing regimes to monitor and report student achievement progress as an outcome of teaching performance. This paper reports on an investigation of strategies that Principals of high achieving schools use to achieve school results, based on NAPLAN reports (the National Assessment Program in…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
