摘要：AbstractStudents choose subjects in secondary schools that can be major determinants for their future educational career. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the effect of secondary school course-taking on educational outcomes in secondary and tertiary institutions. The findings of the review and the meta analysis suggest that course-taking predicts a number of educational outcomes such as further course-taking in secondary school, tertiary course-taking, and secondary school grades. However, these effects could not be easily disentangled from the diversity of factors, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES) and prior achievement that are co-correlated with course-taking and its outcomes.
