A one-off "evidence check" session will be held next Tuesday (8 November), with those appearing before the influential cross-party group including schools minister Nick Gibb and Tim Leunig, chief scientific adviser at the Department for Education.
Last month Prime Minister Theresa May outlined plans to relax the restrictions on new selective schools being established and to allow existing non-selective schools to become selective in some circumstances.
A consultation on the plans is due to run until 12 December.
Neil Carmichael, chair of the education select committee, said: "Since the government announced its green paper proposing an extension to selective education, the air has been thick with the sound of claims and counter-claims on the benefits and disadvantages of grammar schools.
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