Ethnic and Socioeconomic Class Composition and Language Proficiency: a Longitudinal Multilevel Examination in Dutch Elementary Schools
This study tested whether elementary school pupils’ language proficiency, and its development from grade 4 to 6, is affected by ethnic and socioeconomic school class composition. On average, pupils in school classes with high concentrations of ethnic minorities performed worse than pupils in classes with low concentrations of ethnic minorities. However, when percentage of employed mothers and degree of variation in the fathers’ incomes were taken into account, the initial negative effect of ethnic minority concentration on language proficiency in grade 4 fell to a non-significant level. In add... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2006 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26632576 |
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Link(s) : | http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/22/3/293 |