yeargroup
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[edit]yeargroup (plural yeargroups)
- (education) The body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.
- 1992, Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker, What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry:
- Social units intermediate in size between the individual and the whole school are discussed. These units are the year-groups, seen as developing collective perspectives which follow from the interaction between students' initial perspectives and their shared experiences, and the fraternities which were seen to structure daily social interaction.
- 2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255:
- Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.