Educational Research Papers
There is a great deal of information about the topic of streaming below to give further awareness about this important topic.
Articles (PDFs
):
The variable effects of high school tracking
Producing equal status interaction in the heterogeneous classroom
Assigning average-achieving eighth graders to advanced mathematics classes in urban junior high
Untracking and Students Futures
Is 'untracking' harmful to the gifted?
Unpacking detracking
Achievement inequality
Website links:
Kilgour, Peter William (2006) Student, teacher and parent perceptions of classroom environments in streamed and unstreamed mathematics classrooms. Doctoral thesis, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.
http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20070327.111520/unrestricted/
(Chapters 1 and 7 give context and results)
Setting and Streaming: A research review. (Scottish Council for Research in Education)
http://www.scre.ac.uk/pdf/setting.pdf
Grouping Students for Instruction in Middle Schools. ERIC Digest.
by Mills, Rebecca
http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-1/grouping.html
Should Students Be Tracked in Math or Science? ERIC Digest.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-2/tracked.htm
Alternatives to Ability Grouping: Still Unanswered Questions. ERIC/CUE Digest Number 111.
http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-3/ability.htm
The Effects of Homogeneous Groupings in Mathematics. ERIC/CSMEE Digest.
http://www.ericdigests.org/1993/groupings.htm
Successful Detracking in Middle and Senior High Schools. ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 82.
http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-1/senior.htm
Middle School Education--The Critical Link in Dropout Prevention. ERIC/CUE Digest No. 56.
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9213/middle.htm
Making Sense of the Research on Ability Grouping Wynne Harlen discusses the research evidence around setting, streaming and mixed ability grouping.
http://www.scre.ac.uk/rie/nl60/nl60harlen.html
