This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of half the students may repeat a grade. On the Success of Failure addresses whether repeating a grade is helpful or harmful when children are not keeping up....

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Hauptverfasser:	Alexander, Karl L. (VerfasserIn), Entwisle, Doris R. (VerfasserIn), Dauber, Susan L. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Basisonderwijs Enseignement primaire - États-Unis Redoublement de classes - États-Unis Schoolloopbaan Zittenblijven Education, Primary > United States Grade repetition > United States Pädagogische Psychologie Sitzenbleiben Grundschule USA
Zusammenfassung:	This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of half the students may repeat a grade. On the Success of Failure addresses whether repeating a grade is helpful or harmful when children are not keeping up. It describes the school context of retention and evaluates its consequences by tracking the experiences of a large, representative sample of Baltimore school children from first grade through middle school In addition to evaluating the consequences of retention, the book describes the cohort's dispersion along many different educational pathways over this eight-year period, the articulation of retention with other forms of educational tracking (like reading group placements in the early primary grades and course-level assignments in middle school), and repeaters' academic and school adjustment problems before they were held back. Focusing on the experience of first, second, and third grade repeaters, the volume finds that the effects of retention are largely positive. Test scores and marks, which are low to begin with and get worse over time, improve when retainees get back into the regular promotion sequence, and in most instances repeaters remain above where they had been before being held back. The comparisons are especially favorable for single repeaters held back after first grade. In the socioemotional realm, no great stigma is attached to retention Instead, when children are held back their attitudes about self and school improve, probably because their marks and test scores improve. Retention is not the answer to children's troubles, but neither is it the source of their problems, as much commentary on the practice would have us believe. On the Success of Failure gives evidence that a return to social promotion would be the real disservice to these youngsters and their families
Beschreibung:	XII, 270 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:	0521415047