Beyond grade retention and social promotion: Promoting the social and academic competence of students

By S. Jimerson, Sarah M. W. Pletcher, K. Graydon, Britton L. Schnurr, Amanda B. Nickerson, D. Kundert. 2006

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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In Clinical Psychology

1. D. Gottfredson
2. Chongmin Na
3. R. Sprott
4. Philip J Cook
5. Sherry A. Taff
6. Alex J. Bowers
7. A. Payne

In Education

1. D. Gottfredson
2. R. Sprott
3. Chongmin Na
4. Sherry A. Taff
5. Philip J Cook
6. Alex J. Bowers
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8. Deanna N. Devlin

Citations in the corpus

• Grades and Graduation: A Longitudinal Risk Perspective to Identify Student Dropouts (2010, background): “small urban and first-ring suburban districts (Alexander et al., 2001; Jimerson et al., 2002; Jimerson et al., 2005; Roderick, 1994; Roderick et al., 2000), demonstrating that retention at any level in districts of the size studied here may not be serving students in a”
• School Crime Control and Prevention (2010, background): “Most studies have focused on academic outcomes: meta-analyses of this literature conclude that the long-term effect on academic achievement is null or negative, with a greatly elevated risk of dropping out ( Jimerson et al. 2006).”
• A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL CLIMATE: THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL AND ACADEMIC RISK FACTORS (2011, unknown): “For example, although the main effects of the results concur with many researchers’ concerns that grade retention can be ineffective (Jimerson et al., 2006), our study provides new evidence that changing schools or repeating a grade may lessen the negative perceptions of school climate for students…”
• Police Officers in Schools: Effects on School Crime and the Processing of Offending Behaviors (2013, background): “And as youths fall farther behind grade, they become much less likely to graduate (Alexander, Entwisle, & Horsey, 1997; Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 1997; Jimerson et al., 2006; Lee & Burkam, 2003).”
• Do We Know Who Will Drop Out?: A Review of the Predictors of Dropping out of High School: Precision, Sensitivity, and Specificity (2013, background): “Thus, as an example here of high precision with low sensitivity, as stated in the extensive literature on the deleterious impact of retaining students (Jimerson et al., 2005; Roderick, 1994), retaining a student is something that schools do to students, and knowing that retaining students is highly ”