Years of experience with a program may lead to reinvention of it by the user to accommodate the changing circumstances in schools and diversity in composition of classrooms (gender, ethnicity or sexual experience of students) in time [ 36 38].
Indeed, diverse policy implications correspond to different shares of the two components—unemployed and inactive non-student youths and to the NEET group's composition in terms of gender, area of residence and other important personal characteristics.
However, composition in terms of gender and race does not meet South African requirements.
I have been examining the effect of gender composition on the decision-making processes of corporate boards, as part of a research project with my coauthors — Dr. Tiffany Trzebiatowski and Dr. Courtney McCluney.
Canada and her colleagues observed that teacher responsiveness varied as a function of gender composition of the classroom.
To specify the possible relationship between gender composition of author teams and publication success, we include internationality of author teams as an additional explanatory factor that can interact with the effect of gender composition as described in the following.
In this study, we focus on the quality of research, that is, on journal publication success and we look at the role of gender composition of author teams for the success of papers by authors from German-speaking countries.
This interaction effect is not significant for the most exclusive and selective ranking, the UT Dallas ranking, where the negative effect of gender composition remains.
Second, by analyzing the combined effect of gender composition and internationality in author teams, we describe which author teams are most successful in terms of publication success, thus contributing to the research on diversity and research performance.
It is thus possible that the observed effect of gender composition is a result of selection into specific vocational education programmes and not specifically of the gender composition.
