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ERIC Number: EJ642259
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
The Grasshopper and the Ant: Motivational Responses of Low-Achieving Students to High-Stakes Testing.
Roderick, Melissa; Engel, Mimi
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v23 n3 p197-227 Fall 2001
Examined the responses of 102 low achieving sixth and eighth graders to Chicago's highly publicized efforts to end social promotion. Students generally described increased work efforts, and students with high levels of work effort generally had greater than average learning gains and positive outcomes in terms of promotion. About one-third of students, however, showed little work effort. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, High Stakes Tests, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Low Achievement, Social Promotion, Student Motivation, Urban Youth
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Chicago Public Schools IL; Effort; Reform Efforts
Note: Research funded by the Joyce Foundation and the Spencer Foundation and by grant R305T990302 from the Department of Education.