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Bhattacharya, Samrat |
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The Effect of Grade Retention on Child Test Scores Presented: New Orleans, LA, Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, January 4-6, 2008. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2008/2008_445.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meetings Keyword(s): Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Propensity Scores; School Progress; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Each year an estimated two million children in the United States repeat a grade. Investing an additional year in the same grade is expected to help a child to acquire the academic skills she lacks. This, in turn, would help her to be successful in higher grades. In spite of its popularity, grade retention remains a highly controversial practice. A majority of researchers find that, for the repeaters, repeating a grade is strongly correlated with the poor performance in mathematics and reading tests. In this paper I examine whether repeating a grade adds value to the academic performance of repeaters as measured by their improvement in mathematics and reading test scores. I focus on retention in grades one to five. I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Child Survey. Using a difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimator I find that repeating a grade does not lead to an improvement in a repeaters' performance in these tests. On contrary, repeating a grade adversely affects their performance in these tests. |
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Bhattacharya, Samrat. "The Effect of Grade Retention on Child Test Scores." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, January 4-6, 2008. |