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XYZ grouping

a program in which school administrators assign students in the same grade to classes by virtue of their test scores and school records. Students with similar abilities are placed in “high,” “middle,” or “low” groups or classes; each group follows the same basic curriculum. Students in the middle and lower classes in XYZ programs do not increase their achievement as compared to students in traditional classes, but students in the higher classes in XYZ programs increase their achievement by about one month on a grade-equivalent scale as compared to students in traditional classes. In XYZ classes, self-esteem of lower ability students rises slightly and self-esteem of higher ability students drops slightly. See also ability grouping.

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September 8th 2024

number

number

n. in linguistics, a grammatical classification of nouns, pronouns, and any words in agreement with them according to whether they are singular or plural (or in some languages, dual). In English, number is most commonly expressed by the plural noun ending -s (e.g., boy, boys) and in the inflection of the verb to agree with the number of the subject (e.g., The boy runs; The boys run).