Beyond Grade Retention and Social Promotion.
Grade retention and social promotion are widely used, yet highly controversial, educational practices used to promote student academic achievement. Grade retention (also known as “grade repetition” or “failing a grade”) occurs when a student repeats the current grade rather than being promoted to the next grade with his peers. Social promotion occurs when a student is promoted to the.
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From U.S. Department of Education (1999)- Social promotion is the practice of passing students along from grade to grade with their peers even if the students have not satisfied academic requirements or met performance standards at key grades. It is called “social” promotion because it is often carried out in the perceived interest of a student’s social and psychological well-being.
Retention Abstract Social promotion and retention are used for various reasons. Retention is implemented when students have not met the general requirements to begin the next grade. The question that will be addressed is how do social promotion and retention differ. The overall meaning of both will be addressed to give the reader a better understanding of the two. Social promotion is the.
This paper will help address what is best for our students; social promotion or grade repetition. Literature Review. Merit promotion was the adopted means of our public school systems in the nineteenth century. This type of promotion system was geared to the best and brightest in our school system; and those who could afford to continue their education. Although not every student attained.
Research indicates that neither grade retention nor social promotion is an effective strategy for improving educational success. Evidence from research and practice highlights the importance of seeking alternatives that will promote social and cognitive competence of children and enhance educational outcomes. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) promotes the use of.
Grade Retention: Good or Bad? A Review of the Literature. including Beyond Grade Retention and Social Promotion by Shane Jimerson. To aid the research, Jimerson responded to an email and added helpful information to the review. He included an article called A Longitudinal Study of Grade Retention: Academic and Behavioral Outcomes of Retained Students through Adolescence. Using the.