Distributing opportunities: the impact of school grouping on the students’experience

Abstract

This article proposed carries out a revision of the literature of research on school internal stratification and the selection processes of students, with the purpose of discerning the different spaces of learning and socialization that exist inside the school itself. It considers the empirical data that researches provide about the different forms of students grouping, the arguments and criteria on which they hold and the impact that these forms of students grouping have on the academic results and school experience. It also shows the researches that in Spain have dealt this stratification and points the impact on the students of this school organization strategy.