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The Transition from Primary to Secondary Education: Meritocracy and Ethnicity.

The aim of this study was to better understand the influence of pupil background characteristics (e.g. gender, SES, ethnicity), various cognitive, and non-cognitive competencies (e.g. school performance, study attitude) and a number of class and school characteristics (e.g. socio-ethnic class compos...

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Published in:European Sociological Review Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 527 - 543
Main Authors: Driessen, Geert, Sleegers, Peter, Smit, Frederik
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / UK September 2008
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Education
Netherlands
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