Jürgen Baumert|Gabriel Nagy|Rainer Lehmann
Cumulative Advantages and the Emergence of Social and Ethnic Inequality: Matthew Effects in Reading and Mathematics Development Within Elementary Schools?
Max Planck Institute for Human Development|Max Planck Institute for Human Development
article examines development social ethnic disparities academic achievement elementary schooling investigated whether reading mathematics development 136 mixedability classes shows pathdependent processes cumulative advantage matthew effects grades 4 6 grade 4 mean age 1062 sd 057 resulting growing inequality statusdependent processes cumulative advantage interaction pathdependent processes consequences degree social ethnic inequality examined two complementary methods analyzing multilevel data used growth curve quasisimplex models evidence matthew effect found either domain compensation effect emerged reading benefit ethnic minorities fanspread effect found mathematics partly attributable statusdependent processes cumulative advantage