Academic Outcomes of Ability Grouping among Junior High School Students in Hong Kong.

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