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Raising the Compulsory Age of Attendance in Manitoba Schools: Uneven Results
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McGeown Plant, A.; Donlevy, J. Kent – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
Compulsory school attendance policies establish a school entry age and a school leaving age for students. In 1916, the Province of Manitoba introduced a compulsory attendance law that mandated students attend school from the age of 7 to the age of 14. Fifty years later, further amendments were made to the school leaving age, but the school entry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, School Entrance Age, Educational Legislation
Relative Age Effects and Academic Timing in Canadian Interuniversity Football
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Chittle, Laura; Horton, Sean; Dixon, Jess C. – High Ability Studies, 2018
Relative age effects (RAEs) explain the (dis)advantages individuals experience as a result of when they are born relative to a pre-determined cut-off date. Within an interuniversity setting, academic timing (AT) may moderate the RAE pattern due to some student-athletes having eligibility years that do not correspond with their birth years. The…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Age Differences
Modelling Vocabulary Development among Multilingual Children Prior to and Following the Transition to School Entry
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MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie; Parent, Sophie; Jacques, Sophie; Séguin, Jean R. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Differences between monolingual and multilingual vocabulary development have been observed but few studies provide a longitudinal perspective on vocabulary development before and following school entry. This study compares vocabulary growth profiles of 106 multilingual children to 211 monolingual peers before and after school entry to examine…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis
Exceptional Lives: Parents' Stories
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Brackenreed, Darlene G. – Exceptionality Education International, 2019
This phenomenological research study examined the perspectives of parents and caregivers of persons with low-incidence exceptionalities through the use of semi-structured interviews. The purpose of the study was to determine what, if any, barriers they face in providing the best life possible for their children. All of the adult children in…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes, Barriers, Child Rearing
How Valuable Is the Gift of Time? The Factors that Drive the Birth Date Effect in Education
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Smith, Justin – Education Finance and Policy, 2010
The age at which students enter school is increasing. More parents are delaying their child's entry, and U.S. states are moving school entry cutoffs earlier, mainly because older students outperform younger ones on many educational outcomes. Much of the literature interprets advantages held by older students as benefits to entering school older,…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Age Differences, Parent Child Relationship, Educational Policy
Effect of Relative Age in the First Grade of Primary School on Long-Term Scholastic Results: International Comparative Evidence Using PISA 2003
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Sprietsma, Maresa – Education Economics, 2010
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pupil's relative age within the first grade of primary school on mathematics and reading test scores at age 15. The main objective is to evaluate the long-term causal effect of relative age in the first grades of primary school on pupil's test in 16 different countries. We use the national rule for…
Descriptors: Grade 1, School Entrance Age, Age Differences, Grade Repetition