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Peer reviewedBraddock, Jomills Henry, II; Slavin, Robert E. – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1993
Reviews research on ability grouping, focusing on policies and practices that result in placing students in groups that are more or less homogeneous with respect to academic performance. It is concluded that ability grouping is ineffective at best and harmful to many students. It inhibits development of interracial respect. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Educational Discrimination
Download full textBraddock, Jomills Henry, II; Slavin, Robert E. – 1992
This review of research focuses on policies and practices that result in placing students in groups that are more or less homogeneous with respect to academic performance. Recent analysis of data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 provides the largest and best-controlled multi-year study of ability grouping ever conducted…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Delinquency
