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Wilson, Hope Elisabeth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
While states have developed policies around a cut-off date for kindergarten entrance, some parents chose to have their child enter kindergarten before this date (Early Entrance) as an acceleration technique, or hold the child back from entering, a practice termed Redshirting, to allow for greater maturity and increased achievement in relation to…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Early Admission, Acceleration (Education), Kindergarten
Ilika, Joseph – 1969
The influence of age of entrance to first grade on subsequent rate of scholastic development was tested in this longitudinal investigation. Forty-one pairs of boys and forty-nine pairs of girls, matched according to sex, intelligence, and socioeconomic status, were subjects. The mean chronological age of late entrants was 81 months, opposed to 72…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Age Differences, Arithmetic