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"Ethnic Composition and Heterogeneity in the Classroom: Their Measurement and Relationship with Student Outcomes"

11/21/2017

 
Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles has published with colleagues in the Journal of Educational Psychology: "Ethnic Composition and Heterogeneity in the Classroom: Their Measurement and Relationship with Student Outcomes."

Abstract

This study explores various measures of the ethnic makeup in a classroom and their relationship with student outcomes. We examine whether measures of ethnic diversity are related to achievement (mathematics, reading) and feeling of belonging with one’s peers over and above commonly investigated composition characteristics. Multilevel analyses were based on data from a representative sample of 18,762 elementary school students in 903 classrooms. The proportion of minority students and diversity measures showed negative associations with student outcomes in separate models. Including diversity measures and the proportion of minority students, diversity of minority students mostly lost its significance. However, the results suggest that diversity measures may provide additional information over and above other classroom characteristics for some student outcomes. The various measures of diversity led to comparable results.

Rjosk, C., Richter, D., Lüdtke, O., & Eccles, J. S. (2017). Ethnic composition and heterogeneity in the classroom: Their measurement and relationship with student outcomes. Journal of Educational Psychology, 109(8), pp. 1188–1204.

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