![]() ![]() Research shows that even 2-3-monthĭifferences in age can make significant differences in their academicĪchievement. Somewhat similar to what you guys seem to be doing.īig differences among 5-year-olds. Some research on California’s Transitional Pre-Kindergarten program that sounds Have been holding kids out sending them to kindergarten when they are six Less mature kids will lag behind their norm groups intellectually and socially, Parents have gotten into the delaying act, too. His novel idea was to adjust the instruction Intervened with kids whose mental ages were only 3.5). ![]() Mental ages (M&G screened out those who scored below 6.5, while Gates In response, Arthur Gates (1937) challenged Idea was to avoid teaching kids before they were ready to benefit. (1931) recommended that kids with lower than average mental ages be held backįrom Grade 1 entry for a year (kindergarten was uncommon in those days). School leaders struggled with these questions, too. If kids scored too low, we’d recommend delaying entry until the following We’d test the kids and then recommend whether they were ready to start The years was to do screening for my school district’s kindergarten roundup. Schooling earlier so that they could maximize academic experience. Moved the age of entry in the other direction to get the lower achievers into Of that year’s cohort home for an extra year. Girls who start kindergarten underprepared to do well in the primary grades.Ī raised the age of kindergarten enrollment by three months-sending a quarter Two states who were in the throes of school reform. Kindergarten placement and what the best practice is to help us make the best Students that are older and scored low on the same test. We are concernedĪbout both groups. We would really like to know the research behind We have several students who are very young, meaning they areīarely 5, who scored rather high on our placement test. Which requires retention in third grade for students who don’t meet that However, our state now has a “Read by Grade Three” law, Tracks based upon their performances on a readiness screener-and inĬonsultation with parents. We place children in different kindergarten (or prekindergarten) ![]()
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