Academic outcomes of ability grouping among junior high school students in Hong Kong

Academic outcomes of ability grouping among junior high school students in Hong Kong

• Cheung, Chau Kiu City University of Hong Kong
• Rudowicz, Elizabeth City University of Hong Kong

Journal of Educational Research, 96(4), 241-254, 2003

Routledge

2003

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development

Ability Grouping Academic Achievement Foreign Countries Junior High School Students Junior High Schools Self Esteem Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Ability grouping is supposedly undesirable because it leads to deficits in academic self-concept and academic achievement. However, it appears to be justifiable for its improvement of teaching and learning in schools, perhaps more so in a collectivist culture. In view of the paucity of data examining the controversy in Hong Kong, the authors collected data from 2,720 junior high school students with a random sampling procedure and obtained teachers' reports about the students' subsequent academic achievement, ability grouping, and the ability level of the class. The authors maintained students' past academic achievement as a control variable in predicting their subsequent academic achievement and self-concepts. Results revealed no significant detrimental effect caused by the ability-grouped class and the ability level of the ability-grouped class. Rather, students in classes that were more homogeneous according to past academic achievement tended to have significantly higher subsequent academic achievement and self-esteem. Results revealed no variation attributable to each student's gender and IQ in the effects of ability grouping.
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• 10.1080/00220670309598813

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2010-09-06