The Effects of Streaming on Secondary School Students' Achievements in Additional Mathematics

Abstract This study examinedthe effects of streaming on secondary school students’ achievements and learning outcomes in additional mathematics.The sample comprises of 365 Year 10 students in a co-educational government secondary school in Brunei. These students sat for theBrunei Cambridge General Certificate of Examination (GCE) Ordinary Level examination and they were the first batch in the school to have undergone the streaming process. The students were grouped according to their abilities, based on their Year 9 end-of-year examination results.In this study, measures of the students’ attainment in internal qualifying and GCE O Level examinations were used to indicate academic achievement and learning outcomes.The analysis of data revealed positive effects of streaming on students’ achievement in additional mathematics. Keywords: Program Evaluation, Student Evaluation; School-Based Evaluation, Streaming, Additional Mathematics 1. Introduction Brunei Darussalam through the Ministry of Education hopes to raise students’ achievements in core subjects such as English language, Mathematics and Science (Ministry of Education, 2013). In so doing, the Ministry of Education aims to increase students’ enrolment into higher education in these subject areas. Several researches conducted in Brunei have consistently reported that the learning of and the assessment in mathematics is challenging for the students in the primary, secondary and post-

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