Succesvol Stapelen: Een vergelijking van verschillende klimroutes

Abstract

School systems with limited mobility can lead to increased socioeconomic inequality. The possibility of stacking, where students can accumulate diploma upon diploma, is one way to introduce more mobility into a school system and thus correct for inequality. This study examines the different stacking routes within the Dutch education system. It investigates how long students take to complete a route, how successful they are in finishing the route, which students follow certain routes, and whether students with specific background characteristics are more or less successful than others. The study tracks the pathways of all students who were in the 4th year of secondary education in the 2010/2011 school year. Students who followed stacking routes often did not take much longer to complete their study path than students who did not stack diplomas. Girls and students with a migration background stacked more frequently. Girls also tended to perform better on stacking routes, whereas this was not the case for students with a migration background. This research provides insight into which stacking routes are the most effective and which students thrive best on which routes.