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Transitional First Grade, Retained, Held Out and Promoted Samples: An Explanatory Summary of Initial and Concomitant Longitudinal Academic and Behavioral Findings.

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Ferguson, Phil – 1996

This 10-year study compared the achievement of 3 samples of students designated at-risk for school failure and 1 sample deemed not at risk, and followed a transitional first-grade school readiness program (SRP) population from prekindergarten through eighth grade to identify contextual factors associated with student progress. At-risk samples were…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Comparative Analysis, Grade Repetition

Longitudinal Outcome Differences and Correlates among At Risk Kindergarten, Promoted and Transitional Students: Academic, Related Services and Social-Behavioral Profiles.

Ferguson, Phil – 1990

This study investigated outcome data obtained from six samples of primary school students, four of which consisted of at-risk students. Participants were: (1) 46 students from a transitional first-grade, developmental, regular education school readiness program (SRP) for at-risk kindergartners; (2) 20 nonplaced kindergartners who were recommended…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students