Reading instruction time and homogeneous grouping in kindergarten: An application of marginal mean weighting through stratification

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-81

  Hong, Guanglei ^a   Hong, Yihua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ability grouping; Academic engaged time; Causal inference; Concurrent treatments; Propensity scores; Reading growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349469688     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373708328259     Document Type: Article

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