TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rjosk, Camilla
A1  - Richter, Dirk
A1  - Luedtke, Oliver
A1  - Eccles, Jacquelynne Sue
T1  - Ethnic Composition and Heterogeneity in the Classroom: Their Measurement and Relationship With Student Outcomes
T2  - The journal of educational psychology
N2  - 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. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
KW  - ethnic composition
KW  - diversity
KW  - multilevel analysis
KW  - academic achievement
KW  - classroom
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46215
SN  - 0022-0663
SN  - 1939-2176
VL  - 109
SP  - 1188
EP  - 1204
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -