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School socioeconomic compositional (SEC) effects are the relationship between the average socioeconomic status (SES) of the students in a school and outcomes such as academic achievement, student behaviours, school completion, college university entry, and social cohesion (Willms, 2010). They have been well-established in the literature and explain international variation in school system performances (Benito et al., 2014). Academic composition, or the average academic achievement of a student body, is another compositional effect shown to predict learning outcomes (Opdenakker & Damme, 2001). The inter-relationship between SEC and academic composition in predicting student learning has not been settled by research and has been debated in this journal (Marks, 2024; Sciffer et al., 2022)...
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Title
The substantiveness of school socioeconomic compositional effects: a response to Marks
Authors/Creators
Michael G. Sciffer - Murdoch University
Publication Details
Large-scale assessments in education, Vol.12(1), 35
Publisher
Springer US
Number of pages
7
Grant note
This research is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.