The role of academic achievement growth in school track recommendations

Journal article

Students in Germany are tracked into different forms of secondary schooling based on teachers' recommendations. The literature shows that school tracking is largely affected by academic achievement levels, but neglects the influence of individual achievement growth. The authors used data from the Berlin study ELEMENT (N = 2242) to characterize math growth trajectories, obtain reliability-adjusted measures of individual growth, and evaluate their effect on teacher's recommendations. The findin...

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Authors: Caro, D; Lenkeit, J; Lehmann, R; Schwippert, K

• Journal: Studies in Educational Evaluation
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 183-192
• Publication date: 2009-12-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2009.12.002
• ISSN: 0191-491X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Achievement growth; School tracking; Empirical Bayes estimator; Student evaluation