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Direct linkPeterson, Lisa S.; Hughes, Jan N. – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade Repetition, Student Promotion, Grade 2
Wu, Wei; West, Stephen G.; Hughes, Jan N. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The authors investigated the relatively short-term and longer term effects of grade retention in 1st grade on the growth of mathematics and reading achievement over 4 years. The authors initially identified a large multiethnic sample (n = 784) of children who were below the median in literacy at school entrance. From this sample, the authors…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Grade 1, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
