A new twist in the educational tracking debate

By R. Zimmer. 2003

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education

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1. P. Stevens
2. M. Van Houtte
3. Rosa Valls
4. L. Kyriakides
5. Bert Creemers
6. Panayiotis Antoniou
7. J. Scheerens

Citations in the corpus

• The power of Interactive Groups: how diversity of adults volunteering in classroom groups can promote inclusion and success for children of vulnerable minority ethnic populations (2013, background): “While high achievers do not benefit significantly when placed in homogeneous groups, pupils in low-ability groups have been shown to perform less well than their peers in mixed-ability classrooms and have fewer opportunities to benefit from peer effect (Braddock & Slavin, 1992; Zimmer, 2003).”
• Study Involvement of Academic and Vocational Students: Does Between-School Tracking Sharpen the Difference? (2009, background): “Zimmer (2003) showed that the use of tracking diminishes the impact peers have on student achievement for lower and average-ability students.”