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Peer reviewedBurns, Robert B.; Mason, DeWayne A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2002
Examined the class distributional properties of 200 elementary school classes in 2 school districts. Fifty-six classes were combination classes of students from 2 grades. Principals and teachers tended to assign higher ability and more independent students to such classes, and these assignments affected the class distributional properties.…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Elementary Education
