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On the Effectiveness of Differentiated Instruction in the Enhancement of Jordanian Students' Overall Achievement
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Magableh, Ibrahim Suleiman Ibrahim; Abdullah, Amelia – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
Teachers sometimes fail to give varied teaching instructions that are suitable for a mixed-ability classroom because these instructions do not match students' proficiency levels. The current quasi-experimental quantitative study investigated the effectiveness of differentiated instruction strategies on students' overall English achievement. 60…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect and a National Policy of Within-School Ability Streaming: Alternative Frames of Reference
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Liem, Gregory Arief D.; Marsh, Herbert W.; Martin, Andrew J.; McInerney, Dennis M.; Yeung, Alexander S. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) was evaluated with 4,461 seventh to ninth graders in Singapore where a national policy of ability streaming is implemented. Consistent with the BFLPE, when prior achievement was controlled, students in the high-ability stream had lower English and mathematics self-concepts (ESCs and MSCs) and those in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes