grade retention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradeandretention
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grade
noun[C]
uk/ɡreɪd/us/ɡreɪd/
a level of quality, size, ...
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retention
noun[U]
uk/rɪˈten.ʃən/us/rɪˈten.ʃən/
the continued use, existence, or possession of something ...
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(Definition ofgradeandretentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Specifically, for the moderate declining group, we found evidence thatgraderetentionaggravated classroom physical aggression, but only when it occurred prior to age 13.
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The results also revealed a sustained negative impact on later disruptive behavior that persisted long after the occurrence ofgraderetention.
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We found short-lived negative prospective associations betweengraderetentionand girls' disruptive behavior beyond its natural persistence.
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This suggests that youngsters engaged in a longstanding antisocial behavioral trajectory will be less affected by school failure and its concomitant,graderetention.
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For both boys and girls, we found a sustained negative impact ofgraderetentionon anxiety and inattentiveness.
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Hence, our second objective is to test whether timing conditions the influence ofgraderetentionbeyond grade school.
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In addition, all children attended regular classrooms, although 12% of the sample was in classrooms with younger classmates because ofgraderetention.
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To the contrary, maladjustment not only persisted but, on average, worsened aftergraderetention.
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This relationship was used to compute the predicted value of measured physical aggression with and withoutgraderetention.
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Boys were more vulnerable to the negative influence ofgraderetentionon academic performance and classroom disruptiveness.
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As with boys, prior academic performance problems were associated with latergraderetention.
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For girls, academic performance was affected bygraderetentionin early, middle, and late primary school.
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Our analysis assumes thatgraderetentionis exogenous controlling for trajectory group and early psychosocial characteristics.
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This important conclusion implies that any impact ofgraderetentionon physical aggression is independent of these preexisting individual characteristics.
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We test the two propositions outlined above in an analysis of the effect ofgraderetentionon each of these physical aggression trajectories.
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However, the findings concerninggraderetentionwere unaffected by the introduction of this variable.
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One is that the effect ofgraderetentionseems to depend materially upon an individual's developmental history.
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We observed both a short- and long-term significant influence ofgraderetention.
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The literature had yet to examine the long-term results of earlygraderetention, using rigorous statistical and methodological controls.
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