Ethnic composition of the class and educational performance in primary education in The Netherlands

作者: Gert-Jan M. Veerman , Herman G. van de Werfhorst , Jaap Dronkers

DOI: 10.1080/13803611.2013.788851

关键词: Cultural diversitySocial psychologyDiversity (politics)Class (computer programming)Ethnic groupGeographyPrimary educationReading comprehensionEthnic compositionAcademic achievementDemographic economics

摘要: This article examines the effect of ethnic composition in school class on performance primary education, using COOL 2008 data for The Netherlands. We make an important distinction between proportion migrant children and diversity with regard to different groups a class. Due strong correlation these 2 variables, we employ residualized score migrants. indicator, which indicates level given particular share children, is negatively related reading comprehension Grade 8. For other grade years, find little support negative effects net migrants

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