Article

he Effects of Ability Grouping and Perceived Class Characteristics upon Academic Achievement

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이주리

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pp. 51~65 / 2009 Vol.16 No.2

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of ability grouping and perceived class characteristics upon the levels of academic achievement by middle school students\' through HLM (Hierarchical Linear Modeling) analysis. The participants were 6908 (boys 3617, girls 3291) middle school students selected from the 2005 data of the KELS. The results were as follows: (1) There were significant differences among different schools in terms of the middle school students\' levels of academic achievement. (2) Not all class characteristics influenced English achievement in the group of high English ability, however, perceived structured class characteristics influenced English achievement in the group of low English ability. (3) Perceived facilitative class characteristics influenced mathematics achievement in the group of high mathematics ability, however, not all class characteristics had an influence on mathematics achievement in the group of low mathematics ability. (3) Ability grouping didn\'t influence academic achievement in all of the groups.

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