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Download full textMotamedi, Vahid; Khajouie, Fateme Gharaie Pour – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
Research on multigrade in comparison to singlegrade classes often overlooks the issues and challenges facing the nation's educational authorities in administering these classes. The purpose of this study was to compare multi and singlegrade classes in terms of educational efficiency and effectiveness. The population of this study consisted of all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multigraded Classes, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Direct linkMadjar, Nir; Cohen-Malayev, Maya – School Psychology Quarterly, 2016
The implications of the transition from elementary to middle school are of major concern for educators and researchers worldwide. Previous studies have yielded ambiguous findings; some have indicated negative outcomes of school transition, whereas others have demonstrated null or even positive effects. The aim of the current research was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Student Promotion
Lamote, Carl; Pinxten, Maarten; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Van Damme, Jan – Educational Studies, 2014
Holding students back when they do not meet a specific attainment level is common practice in a lot of countries. However, this practice is not without controversy and recent studies point at the negative effects of grade retention, especially in the long-term. The majority of these studies focused on grade retention in primary education. In our…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade Repetition, Secondary Education, Academic Achievement
Ehmke, Timo; Drechsel, Barbara; Carstensen, Claus H. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2010
The study analyzes the effects of grade repetition on science and mathematics achievement and on self-concept in mathematics using longitudinal data from a representative sample of 9th graders in Germany. Same-age comparisons were applied between three groups: (a) the retained students, (b) a matched group of promoted students, and (c) the entire…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Morrison, Frances; Pawley, Catherine – 1986
Part of the Eleventh Annual Report to the Ontario Ministry of Education, this report describes the grade and program location of students who entered kindergarten in Ottawa and Carleton, Ontario in 1974, known as the K-74 cohort. The first section of the report deals with the K-74 cohort; later sections deal with students who joined either early…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charts, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1984
Study showed that levels of repetition and dropping out in the primary schools of 121 countries in Africa, Asia and Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and the USSR from 1970 to 1980 remain very high. This educational wastage is costing a great deal of money. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Developed Nations
Kambouri, Maria; Francis, Hazel – 1994
A two-phase study examined the incidence and nature of dropout and progression from basic skills programs in England and Wales. During the first (retrospective) phase, data about 1,920 students' attendance/dropout patterns and reasons' for finishing/leaving their basic skills programs were obtained from 82 tutors (of more than 300 contacted) in 8…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
