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- Title
The differences between retained and promoted children in educational services received.
- Authors
Peterson, Lisa S.; Hughes, Jan N.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students retained in first grade, relative to similarly low-achieving students who were promoted, differed in the number of remedial educational services received by students in the pre-retention year and in the repeat year. Study participants were 769 relatively low-achieving first-grade students, of whom 165 were retained in first grade and 604 were promoted. Controlling for students' conditional probability of being retained, based on propensity scores calculated prior to retention, retained students received the same number of services as did promoted students during the pre-retention year. The following year, when retained students were in first grade and promoted students were in second grade, retained students received fewer services than promoted students. Furthermore, retained children had a larger decrease in services from Year 1 to Year 2. These data support the notion that grade retention is being used as the primary intervention instead of a component of a more comprehensive remediation plan. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Subjects
GRADE repetition; UNDERACHIEVERS; SERVICES for students; FIRST grade (Education); PROMOTION (School); EDUCATIONAL psychology; SLOW learning children; SECOND grade (Education)
- Publication
Psychology in the Schools, 2011, Vol 48, Issue 2, p156
- ISSN
0033-3085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pits.20534