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EJ426449 SP520371
Title: Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement.Author(s): Crosser, Sandra L.
Source: Journal of Educational Research, v84 n3 p140-46 Jan-Feb 1991
Publication Date: 1991
ISSN: 0022-0671
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJSEP1991
Describes
a study that compared academic achievement indices of summer birth
date seventh-ninth graders (n=45) who entered kindergarten at age
five with indices of similar summer birth date children who entered
at age six (n=45). All statistically significant differences favored
older males and females, especially in reading for older males.
(SM)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; Cognitive Development; Comparative
Analysis; Elementary Education; Emotional Development; Grade 5;
Grade 6; Kindergarten; Learning Readiness; *Mathematics Achievement;
*Reading Achievement; *School Entrance Age
Identifiers: Birthdays
