Are Flunkers Social Outcasts? A Multilevel Study of Grade Retention Effects on Same-Grade Friendships

Autor/inn/en	Demanet, Jannick; Van Houtte, Mieke
Titel	Are Flunkers Social Outcasts? A Multilevel Study of Grade Retention Effects on Same-Grade Friendships
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 53 (2016) 3, S.745-780 (36 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831216646867
Schlagwörter	Academic Failure; Grade Repetition; Friendship; Peer Acceptance; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Correlation; Peer Relationship; Academic Achievement; Student Adjustment; Hypothesis Testing; Adolescents; Social Bias; Incidence; Track System (Education); Regression (Statistics); Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Repeat a school year; Repeating; Sitzen bleiben; Sitzenbleiben; Freundschaft; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Korrelation; Peer-Beziehungen; Schulleistung; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Vorkommen; Leistungsgruppe; Leistungsdifferenzierung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Belgien
Abstract	We examine the association between grade retention and the number of same-grade friendships. Moreover, we investigate the effect of a school's proportion of retained students on these friendships and the moderating effect of this school characteristic on the relationship between retention and the number of same-grade friendships. Multilevel analyses on data from 11,759 students in 83 Flemish secondary schools show that secondary school retention is related to a lower number of friendships. Primary school retention is unrelated to friendship quantity in secondary education. Furthermore, students attending schools with a higher percentage of retained students have fewer same-grade friendships. The retention composition also moderates the effect of individual grade retention on the number of same-grade friendships. The implications are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01