کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
356350 1435166 2010 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Does taking one step back get you two steps forward? Grade retention and school performance in poor areas in rural China
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علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم اجتماعی توسعه
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Does taking one step back get you two steps forward? Grade retention and school performance in poor areas in rural China
چکیده انگلیسی

Despite the rise in grade retention in poor areas in rural China recently, little work has been done to understand the impact of grade retention on the educational performance of students in these areas in rural China. This paper seeks to redress this shortcoming and examines the effect of grade retention on educational performance on 1649 students in 36 elementary schools in Shaanxi province. With a dataset that was collected from a survey designed specifically to capture school performance of students before and after they were retained, we use differences-in-differences, propensity score matching and differences-in-differences matching approaches to analyze the effect of grade retention on school performance. Although the descriptive analysis shows that grade retention helps to improve the scores of the students that were retained, somewhat surprisingly, the results from the multivariate analysis consistently show that there is no significant positive effect of grade retention on school performance of the students. In fact, in some cases (e.g., for the students who repeat grade 2), grade retention is shown to hurt school performance.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Educational Development - Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2010, Pages 544–559
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