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ERIC Number: EJ366908
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Organization, Instruction, and the Effects of Ability Grouping: Comment on Slavin's "Best-Evidence Synthesis".
Gamoran, Adam
Review of Educational Research, v57 n3 p341-345 Fall 1987
The commentator finds that Slavin's synthesis is limited by its failure to distinguish between school and classroom organization and classroom instruction as well as the lack of consideration of intervening circumstances. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Meta Analysis, Student Placement
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Note: This item comments on Robert E. Slavin's 1987 review article "Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Elementary Schools: A Best-Evidence Synthesis" (see TM 513 011).