چکیده (انگلیسی):

The present study was aimed at comparison the rate of social skills and educational achievement in
grade- skipping students and their ordinary classmates. Method of this investigation is of causal comparative type.
For this reason, 32 grade- skipping students (16 boys and 16 girls) and 32 normal students (16 boys and 16 girls)
were chosen from primary schools at Khoramabad City (Lorestan Province) by means of accessible and
randomized stepwise sampling technique. Data were collected by means of Matson’s social skills questionnaire as
well as average score of lesson. To analyze data, multivariate ANOVA as a statistical method was adapted for
comparison of groups in social skills and t-test was used to compare independent groups in educational
achievement. Study results indicated that there is a significant difference in rate of social skills among gradeskipping students and normal students at the same grade; in other words, social skills in grade- skipping students
are greater than in their classmates. There is no significant difference in educational achievement between gradeskipping students with the students at the same grade. This finding in which the educational grade- skipping
students could be comparable with the older classmates in terms of social skills and educational achievement may
justify this method.