Browsing GSE Scholarly Articles by Author "Arias, Melissa"

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Evaluating the impact of different early literacy interventions on low-income Costa Rican kindergarteners

San Francisco, Andrea Rolla; Arias, Melissa; Villers, Renata; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Elsevier BV, 2006)

Grade retention has been the de facto policy for children with academic difficulties in many Latin American countries [Schiefelbein, E., & Wolff, L. (1992). Repetition and inadequate achievement in Latin America’s primary ...
The Importance of Reading Difficulties and Family in Teachers' Decisions to Retain Children: A Case Study in Costa Rica

San Francisco, Andrea Rolla; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; Arias, Melissa; Villers, Renata (University of Oviedo, 2005)

Grade retention in many countries is the de facto remediation policy for children who have academic difficulties in first grade. For example, 14.9 percent of first graders repeated in Costa Rica in 2002. This study describes ...