Grade repetition among learners with and without disabilities in two provinces of South Africa [PDF]
Background: It is critical that disability-disaggregated indicators of educational outcomes are developed and monitored in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to demonstrate whether progress is being made towards educational equality.
Nicola Deghaye, Grace Leach
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Failing to progress or progressing to fail? Age-for-grade heterogeneity and grade repetition in primary schools in Karonga district, northern Malawi [PDF]
Timely progression through school is an important measure for school performance, completion and the onset of other life transitions for adolescents. This study examines the risk factors for grade repetition and establishes the extent to which age-for-grade heterogeneity contributes to subsequent grade repetition at early and later stages of school ...
Bindu S Sunny +2 more
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Grade repetition and bullying victimization in adolescents: A global cross-sectional study of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from 2018 [PDF]
Background Grade repetition is practiced worldwide and varies considerably across the globe. Globally, around 32.2 million students repeated a grade at the primary education level in 2010. Although a large body of research has documented grade repetition’
Qiguo Lian +6 more
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Grade repetition in primary school from teachers’ perspective [PDF]
School underachievement is exhibited gradually, in different forms, while grade repetition figures as one of the most prominent forms of underachievement.
Malinić Dušica
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Introduction: The Spanish Educational System proposes repetition as a leveling mechanismof thereal performance of thescholarand theiracademiclevel. Although the negativeconsequences of repetition in theshort,mediumand long termhave been shown to outweigh
Alar Urruticoechea +4 more
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ANALYSIS OF GRADE REPETITION THROUGH MULTILEVEL MODELS: A STUDY FROM PORTUGAL [PDF]
This paper investigates grade repetition in Portugal using microdata. Drawing on multilevel models, we analyse the number of times the student repeated a grade in compulsory education - our dependent variable - in association with children’s individual ...
Amélia Bastos, Maria Eugénia Ferrão
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Academic Adaptation of Students with a History of Grade Repetition [PDF]
The study aimed to compare repeating and non-repeating students concerning the academic self-efficacy and academic adaptation variables and to verify how the social support and self-efficacy variables can predict the adaptation to Higher Education of ...
Adriana Benevides Soares +3 more
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Grade repetition as a consequence of school failures
Objectives The solution of repeating a school grade when learners do not achieve required level of knowledge or skills has as many proponents as opponents.
Krzysztof Dziurzyński, Ewa Duda
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PREDICTORS AND EFFECTS OF GRADE REPETITION IN SPAIN
About a third of Spanish students will have repeated at least one school year by the time they reach 16. It is claimed that alternative policies top grade repetition should seek to provide individualised treatment and ensure early intervention. In Spain,
Alvaro Choi de Mendizábal +3 more
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Teacher beliefs about grade repetition: An exploratory South African study [PDF]
Abstract Inclusive education is described as an ‘apprenticeship in democracy’ as it is concerned with the identification and dismantling of exclusionary practices in schools. One such practice is grade repetition, which is known to result in school disaffection and early school leaving.
Elizabeth Walton
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