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Download full textSteiner, Karen – 1986
This Digest reviews the historical background on grade retention and promotion and examines research, criteria, and policies concerning these options. The historical overview points out changes in attitudes toward mastery-based promotion and social promotion practices in the schools. Valid and invalid approaches to research on grade retention are…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition
