Academic performance gap between summer-birthday and fall-birthday children in Grades K-8

Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 212-217

  Oshima, T C ^a,b   Domaleski, Christopher S ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Middle and Secondary Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance gap; Fall and summer birthday students; Grades K 8

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845335823     PISSN: 00220671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOER.99.4.212-217     Document Type: Article

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