Indictment of Ability Grouping.

Tuckman, Bruce

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ERIC Number: EJ052125

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Publication Date: 1972

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Indictment of Ability Grouping

Tuckman, Bruce

NJEA Review, 45, 7, 22-3, 55, Mar 72

The use of ability grouping restricts students to interact with others who have been identified as similar in ability and carries with it the stigma of failure and the operation of the self-fulfilling prophecy. (Author)

Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Expectation, Homogeneous Grouping, Prediction, Predictive Validity, Racial Discrimination, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes

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