Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9705810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edwin Leuven (University of Oslo), Marte Rønning (Statistics Norway) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue | 593 |
| Pages | 1164-1192 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12177 |
| OpenAlex | W2112798589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms. This finding is driven by pupils benefiting from sharing the classroom with more mature peers from higher grades. The presence of lower grade peers is detrimental for achievement. Pupils can, therefore, benefit from de‐tracking by grade but the effects depend crucially on how the classroom is balanced in terms of lower and higher grades. These results reconcile the contradictory findings in the literature
Academic achievement · Composition (language · Mathematics education · Norwegian · Pedagogy · Pupil · Student achievement · Tracking (education · Higher Education Research Studies · Innovations in Educational Methods · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |