Although the academic gains associated with acceleration and peer ability grouping are well documented, resistance to their use for gifted students continues because of concerns that such practices will cause social or emotional harm to students. Results from the broad research indicate that grade skipping, early school entrance, and early…

Mathematics education reform emphasises the need to move away from transmission models of teaching to discursive classroom practices in which students negotiate and justify solutions to problems. This shift has potential, but not inevitable, implications for students' mathematical identities with respect to their sense of ownership and…

Although a rich tradition of mainly U.S. and U.K. research focuses on the nature and effects of tracking students within schools, little research has investigated the importance of tracking students in the same or in separate schools. The authors used data from a unique, representative survey in Flanders (Belgium) to examine how students' study…

Built on preliminary findings emerging from an ongoing research project, this paper examines student grouping practices from an institutional-theory perspective. The study, based on interviews with 10 teachers, examines how teachers explain their reasons for grouping students and how they account for their grouping actions. The majority base their…

The purpose of the study was to isolate groups homogeneous in role-taking ability and to describe them on dimensions of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Socialization (So) scale. The results support the validity of some of the subscales as indicators of the role-taking construct underlying the So scale. (Author)

The effects of tracking on high school students' academic achievement are not constant across schools. This study examines the relationship of the following organizational dimensions of tracking systems on the variation in between-track inequality and productivity: (1) selectivity; (2) electivity; (3) inclusiveness; and (4) scope.…

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: Except for high-ability students in honors classes, ability grouping has little significant effect on learning outcomes, student attitudes toward subject matter and school, and self-concept. The differences that are found in grouped classes are all positive, however slight, and there is no evidence…

Since 1954 school children have sought and secured constitutional protection -- primarily under the First Amendment and the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Outlines some of the constitutional developments and recurring issues in education under (1) exclusion, (2) functional exclusion, (3) free expression, (4)…

From a special report, "What's New in Curriculum.

Research data on ability grouping collected from the 1920s on, with particular emphasis on the last two decades, are summarized. This review of the literature was originally intended to follow meta-analysis procedures, but that type of analysis had to be abandoned because only 11 of the 20 research studies published in the 1920s used any form of…

The question of whether ability grouping has a positive or negative effect on school children is probed. This review on the topic covers experimental studies that divide students of a certain grade within a school into classes differing in average ability level. It is limited to secondary schools in the United States. An objective and quantitative…

THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE THE STUDENT'S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, ECONOMIC COMPETENCE, CREATIVITY, SENSE OF VALUES, FACILITY IN HUMAN RELATIONS, AND HEALTH. THE GIFTED STUDENTS ARE GENERALLY APPROACHED IN THREE MAIN WAYS WITHIN THE EDUCATIONAL SETTING. IN ABILITY GROUPING, GIFTED STUDENTS ARE PLACED TOGETHER IN…

PROGRAMS DEALING WITH GIFTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE DESCRIBED AND GIVE THE DEFINITION, IMAGINATION, ENRICHMENT, RESPONSIBILITY, AND TREATMENT OF THE ABLEST STUDENT. THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS OF GRADE SKIPPING, GRADELESS SCHOOLS, GROUPING BY ABILITY, AND ENRICHMENT ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH EXAMPLES OF NEW METHODS OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS AND…

In 2 years of activity the Study of Curriculums for Occupational Preparation and Education (SCOPE) has moved in the direction of systematic, interdisciplinary, self-improving curriculum development. A major product of this phase of the study is a three-dimensional (domain-process-object) taxonomy covering the perceptual, cognitive, affective, and…

As part of a research framework for a program to improve articulation between the educational and work domains of society, this report describes an attempt to link descriptions of work activities and conditions contained in an Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI) with certain defined human attributes in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor…