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Direct linkHallam, Susan – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
There has been research on grouping pupils by ability for most of the twentieth century since Whipple carried out a study of the effects of special class placement on a group of high aptitude 5th and 6th graders in the USA in 1919. Since then hundreds of studies have been undertaken and there have been many literature reviews and syntheses of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ability Grouping, Grade 6, Foreign Countries
Collins, Sue; Reiss, Michael; Stobart, Gordon – Education in Science, 2009
In this article, the authors describe a research project designed to explore the effects of science testing in Year 6 (age 11) in England and implications of the abolition of testing in Wales since 2004. The research was commissioned by the Welcome Trust in association with the ASE to inform representation to the House of Commons Select Committee…
Descriptors: Test Results, Investigations, Testing, Foreign Countries
