Can group composition effects explain socioeconomic and ethnic achievement gaps in primary education? KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This study investigates whether group composition effects (GCE) can help to explain why achievement gaps encountered by low-SES students with or without migration background are not fully reduced or even widen in the course of their primary school careers. The study used data from a longitudinal study with mathematics achievement as dependent variable. Higher proportions of low-SES students with migration background were ...