Grade Retention in High Stakes and Low Stakes Testing Years

Recent political calls for an end to social promotion have led to an era in which many states are using high stakes tests to make retention decisions. Several decades of research have shown that retention is not an effective practice academically or socially. Louisiana is one state that has adopted...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Anna Elizabeth
Other Authors: George Noell
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2007
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06022007-114446/