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The Effects of Stratification in Secondary Schools: Synthesis of Survey and Ethnographic Research
Adam Gamoran and
Mark Berends
University of Wisconsin, Madison
On the topic of stratification in secondary schools, this paper uses ethnographic research to interpret the findings of survey analyses and uses survey studies to assess the causal implications and generalizability of ethnographic findings. The authors criticize survey research for ambiguity concerning the measurement of within-school stratification and for lack of attention to the mechanisms through which the effects of grouping and tracking occur. At the same time, ethnographic research is seen as limited by an inability to demonstrate the significance of between-track differences in social and instructional conditions and by the failure to disentangle track effects from the influence of social class and other preexisting circumstances. The authors advocate longitudinal, quantitative research that is sensitive to the actual dimensions of stratification in schools, and to classroom conditions and processes that vary across levels of the academic hierarchy.
Review of Educational Research, Vol. 57, No. 4,
415-435 (1987)
DOI: 10.3102/00346543057004415
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