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Project

Testing Effects of School Strategies and Actions
Acronym
TESSA
Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/413
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Social differentiation, stratification and social mobility
    • Sociology of social class
    • Sociological methodology and research methods
    • Sociology of child, adolescence and youth
    • Sociology of education
Keywords
Students Testing Grade retention Primary education Teachers Test anxiety Wellbeing Fear of failure
 
Project description
 

The purpose is to gain insight into the context of strategies such as grade retention, testing, and ability grouping in primary education. We want to investigate what these strategies have as an effect on students and teachers. Such strategies are in the first place intended to improve the cognitive achievement of students, we investigate its effects on the wellbeing of students and teachers.