EJ624132
TM523303
Title: Redshirting and Early Retention: Who Gets the "Gift of Time"
and What Are Its Outcomes?Author(s): DiPerna, James; Graue, M. Elizabeth
Source: American Educational Research Journal, v37 n2 p509-34 Sum 2000
Publication Date: 2000
ISSN: 0002-8312
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJSEP2001
Examined the prevalence of delay of kindergarten entry (academic redshirting)
by examining records of more than 8,000 Wisconsin students. Results show that
7% of the sample had delayed school entry and that these students were primarily
boys with birth dates just before the entrance cutoff. Achievement of redshirted
students was comparable to that of peers who entered on time. (SLD)
Descriptors: *Age Differences; Elementary Education; *Elementary School
Students; *Grade Repetition; Males
Identifiers: *Academic Redshirting;
*Late Entry Students; Wisconsin
