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A Proposed Study for Evaluating the Benefits of Ability Grouping

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page paper looks at the benefits and detriments of tracking. Several articles are reviewed and a proposal for an experiment to show whether or not ability grouping is beneficial for  gifted students, as well as other groups, is made. Bibliography lists 6 sources. SA138SpE.rtf I. Introduction  In respect to gifted children, tracking provides solutions for the problems inherent with inclusion and further ameliorates the difficulties of segregating gifted and talented children from  the mainstream. Tracking has its critics, and after reviewing literature on the subject, a student will want to probe further into the controversy by proposing a study. Such a study  would be able to provide additional information for anyone interested in finding out if gifted students really benefit from segregation and if others are harmed by it. First, a review  of the literature can help to provide information, as well as a look at what other researchers have found when they delved into the controversies under the Special Education umbrella.  II. Review of the Literature Anya (1992) points out that minority students may be hurt by tracking and  that they had seen their futures determined for them by tracking systems. The author notes that such systems push them into lower reading levels even as early as the age  of six years (1992). Here, it is implied that there may be an unintended prejudicial effect as minorities may not receive adequate early educations. Fiedler & Lange (1994) look at  the needs of the gifted and stress that ability grouping must continue and they also suggest that public education should not deny gifted students the right to educational arrangements that