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ERIC Number: EJ542075
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-6543
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Within-Class Grouping: A Meta-Analysis.
Lou, Yiping; And Others
Review of Educational Research, v66 n4 p423-58 Win 1996
The effects of within-class grouping on student achievement and other outcomes were quantitatively integrated using one set of 145 effect sizes exploring grouping versus no grouping and a set of 20 effect sizes related to homogeneous versus heterogeneous ability grouping. Overall, results favored homogeneous grouping. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Meta Analysis, Nongraded Instructional Grouping, Outcomes of Education, Track System (Education)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide a la recherche of the Quebec (Canada) government. Portions of this paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 1995 and New York, NY, April 1996).