✦ LIBER ✦
Light's retention scale does not predict success in first-grade retainees
✍ Scribed by Jonathan Sandoval
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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✦ Synopsis
Light's Retention Scale totals, along with measures of reading achievement, mathematics achievement, and self-concept taken at the time first grade nonpromotion was being considered, were used to predict nine separate outcome measures of academic, emotional, and social status at the end of the repeated first grade. In none of the stepwise regressions did the Light total add to the prediction of outcome in the children repeating the first grade. This result, added to earlier studies, suggests that Light's Retention Scale is neither reliable nor valid as a psychometric device.