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EJ453830 TM516859
Title: Middle School Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics.Author(s): Hoffer, Thomas B.
Source: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v14 n3 p205-27 Fall 1992
Publication Date: 1992
ISSN: 0162-3737
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR1993
Effects of
ability grouping on cognitive achievement in mathematics and science
were studied for middle school students from the Longitudinal Study
of American Youth, with a seventh grade sample of 1,900 students.
Ability grouping helped the advanced, harmed the slower students,
and had a negligible overall effect. (SLD)
Descriptors: *Ability Grouping; Comparative Analysis; Equal Education;
Grade 7; *Junior High School Students; Junior High Schools; Longitudinal
Studies; *Mathematics Achievement; *Middle Schools; National Surveys;
*Sciences; Track System (Education)
Identifiers: Longitudinal Study of American Youth; *Middle School
Students; *Science Achievement
