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Direct linkTimo Van Canegem; Isis Vandelannote; Mieke Van Houtte; Jannick Demanet – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Grade retention is often perceived as an academic failure and a negative response from the educational system. Hence, based on the social cognitive theory, being retained might decrease self-efficacy. This way, we expect that retainees are less likely to pursue a degree in higher education. Retainees that do enroll in higher education, are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Social Promotion
Curtis Rogers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examined how higher education impacts economic outcomes, focusing on variables like age, sex, and socioeconomic status using meta-analysis. It acknowledged higher education's macro-level benefits in economic growth and addresses individual-level barriers to access. The study aimed to understand the nuanced relationships between…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Higher Education, Economic Factors
Download full textAchu Charles Tante – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2024
The present study had two research questions to investigate whole-class promotion in primary school and pupils' achievement in literacy. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey research design. The target population was composed of all teachers and pupils in primary schools in Fako Division, in Cameroon, while the accessible population was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Matthew F. Larsen; Jon Valant – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Debates about grade retention weigh the academic benefits of remediation against its social and psychological costs. Louisiana adopted a retention policy aimed at capturing these benefits while mitigating the harm. It used test score thresholds to distinguish between retention in grade 8, promotion to grade 9, and a grade "8.5" where…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Grade Repetition, College Graduates, Educational Policy
Boithatelo Hlasa; Ntombizandile Gcelu – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
In South Africa, progression refers to the elevation of a learner from one grade to the following grade (excluding grade R), in spite of the learner not having achieved all the promotion stipulations (DBE, 2012a). This article is embedded in a social justice theoretical framework that advocates for a just society through fairness, equal access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Equal Education, Access to Education
Christopher Redding; Steven M. Carlo – Educational Policy, 2024
We use event history analysis on an aggregate dataset from 1997 to 2018 to understand the state-level antecedents associated with the adoption of test-based grade retention policies. Findings indicate that the educational conditions of a state to be more predictive of retention policy adoption than the political, economic, and geographic measures.…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, National Competency Tests, Educational History, Student Characteristics
