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标题：Academic Achievement for Fifth-Grade Students in Elementary and Intermediate School Settings: Grade Span Configurations
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作者：Julie P. Combs ; David Clark ; George W. Moore 等
期刊名称：Current Issues in Education
电子版ISSN：1099-839X
出版年度：2011
卷号：14
期号：1
出版社：Arizona State University
摘要：Few researchers have addressed student achievement outcomes as a function of grade configurations for older elementary-aged students. Thus, this study was designed to determine differences between students’ Grade 5 reading and mathematics achievement in elementary schools (K–5) as compared to intermediate schools (Grade 5, 5–6) for 5 academic years. Using archival statewide data, researchers used a rigorous five-step distance-based formula to match elementary schools to intermediate schools on four demographic/school characteristic variables. Students in K-5 settings attained statistically significantly higher levels of reading and mathematics achievement than did their counterparts, with moderate mean effect sizes of 0.37 and 0.47.