A Synthesis of Research on the Effects of School and Classroom Composition on Math and Science Achievement and Related Outcomes

提出的文献调查将综合社会科学和教育实证研究，探讨学校和课堂作文对中学数学和科学成绩及相关教育成果的影响。构成是指学校和教室中学生的种族、民族、语言和社会经济地位的人口结构。综合将集中在几个方面的数学和科学成果：成就，教育成就和SMET职业抱负和成就。该项目有四个目标：(1)识别、收集、编码和严格评估现有的基于该主题的社会科学和教育研究；(2)制作一些利益相关者友好的文件，以社会科学家和法律学者、教育政策制定者和学区领导可以随时使用的方式展示实证结果；(3)建立一个理论模型，解释学校和课堂作文的人口变化对数学和科学教育成果的影响；(4)确定议程和适当的研究设计，以完成实质性的知识库并对理论模型进行检验。

The proposed literature survey will synthesize social science and educational empiricalresearch on the effects of school and classroom composition on secondary school math and science achievement and related educational outcomes. Composition refers to the racial, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic status demographic mix of students in schools and classrooms. The synthesis will focus on math and science outcomes in several areas: achievement, educational attainment, and SMET occupational aspirations and attainment. The project has four goals: (1) to identify, collect, code, and rigorously evaluate the extant social science and education research base on the topic; (2) to produce several stakeholder-friendly documents that present the empirical findings in ways that social scientists and legal scholars, educational policy-makers, and school district leaders can readily use; (3) to develop a theoretical model that accounts for the ways demographic variations in school and classroom compositions affect math and science educational outcomes; and (4) to identify an agenda and appropriate research design to complete the substantive knowledge base and to test the theoretical models.