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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Ability Tracking"”.
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Ability Tracking and Class Mobility in High School Mathematics: The Case of Low Achievers
… commonly held criticisms of the practice of ability tracking in high school mathematics. To do so, I employ data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and follow-ups to model classroom selection and education production. This paper will focus only on the causes and effects of …
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A Study of Seventh and Eighth Grade Student Feelings About Instructional Activities in District 202, Lisle, Illinois
… (3) Do students in language arts and mathematics ability-tracking programs have different feelings about instructional activities? (4) Does participation in extracurricular activities influence student feelings about instructional activities? (5) Do students who appear to have physiologically …
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Public education spending in the German Länder: adjustment to demographic shocks, politics, and cost efficiency
… theory can help to explain the practise of ability-tracking in West Germany. The analysis starts from the empirical observation that in the German education system – where tracking is practised very early compared to other OECD countries – the correlation of parent’s education or income with …
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Elevating Black student voices: The underrepresentation of Black high school students in Advanced Placement courses
… (b) the Black-White achievement gap, (c) ability tracking, and (d) the Advanced Placement program. Additionally, it highlights the lack of scholarly literature that elevates the voices of Black high school students to understand the underrepresentation of Black student enrollment in AP …