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Peer reviewedFarkas, George; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
Coursework-mastery test scores for all middle school students in a school district were used to test the narrowly meritocratic hypothesis that course-grade differentials for gender, ethnicity, and poverty groups can be accounted for by the differential coursework mastery of these groups. Samples ranged from 1,124 to 8,381 seventh graders and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Courses, Ethnicity, Grade 7
