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The impacts of grade retention

2021
No Child Left Behind legislation and high stakes testing have increased the pressure for public schools to ensure academic achievement for all students. Each year, a large number of students do not demonstrate adequate achievement and are retained to repeat the grade level. The large number of students retained is an indication that the system does not
Lauren Elizabeth Rand, John M. Gould
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Sustained Attention and Grade Retention

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1994
Two studies are reported which explore the possible relationship between academic failure, as measured by grade retention, and the capacity to sustain attention on a computerized continuous performance task. In a nonreferred sample, 89 children who had been retained at some point in their academic careers showed a higher frequency of abnormal scores on
M, Gordon, B B, Mettelman, M, Irwin
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Grade Retention and Problem Behavior

American Educational Research Journal, 1994
This study explores the causal nature of the well established association between grade retention and later adolescent problem behaviors including delinquency, drug use, and dropout. It uses multiple regression to examine retention effects on theoretical variables which might link retention to problem behavior in a sample of mostly African-American ...
Denise C. Gottfredson, Carolyn M. Fink, Nanette Graham   +2 more
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Adjustment Correlates of Retention in Grade

Special Services in the Schools, 1985
One hundred seventy-nine first through fourth graders who had been retained were compared to 179 demographically-matched nonretained children on measures of school adjustment problems and competencies, and background identifying information. Retained compared to nonretained children were found to have more serious school adjustment problems and fewer ...
David M. Callahan, Emory L. Cowen
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDELINES FOR GRADE RETENTION

Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1986
The strategy of grade retention (requiring a student to repeat a school grade) began early in the 19th century; concern about its impact on a child's social and emotional development surfaced in the 1930s. Researchers have disagreed as to the efficacy of grade retention and attempts to pinpoint objective standards for making the retention‐or‐promotion ...
Jeanne S. Dennler, Jeanne B. Funk, Elizabeth S. Ruppert, Stephen G. Jurs   +3 more
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The Economics of Grade Retention

2001
Illustrated in this chapter is the importance of some basic economic issues associated with grade retention. First, when thinking about the effects of retention, one must go beyond considering just the direct benefit (or lack thereof) of retention and also consider the costs to the student and to the taxpayer of the policy.
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Test-Based Grade Retention

Educational Researcher, 2010
A growing body of research showing that grade retention serves as an educationally low-quality placement has raised increasing concerns about whether the use of standardized tests in making decisions concerning grade retention conforms to current standards for appropriate and nondiscriminatory test use.
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Student Grade Retention Policies

2018
Student retention policies are found to have positive immediate effects although these tend to dissipate over time. There is still no consensus on the impact of retention on high school student achievement and graduation; though there is suggestive evidence that early-grade retention can be more effective than later-grade retention.
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Effects of Counseling on Grades and Retention

Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 1997
ABSTRACT Demographics of a counseling center are presented. The grades and retention rates of students who received counseling were compared to students in the general student population. Information was obtained on the effects of various counseling services and mental health problems on grades and retention.
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Economic Analysis of Grade Promotion and Grade Retention Policies

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
In some developing countries as well as developed countries, students are promoted from one grade to the next based on their academic performance (policy of grade retention). An alternative education policy is to impose restrictions on retention or to automatically promote all students, regardless of academic achievement, from one grade to the next ...
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