scholarly journals The Case for Good Discipline? Evidence on the Interplay Between Disciplinary Climate, Socioeconomic Status, and Science Achievement from PISA 2015

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-224
Author(s):  
Ronny Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Compensation Hypothesis

AbstractIn both educational and psychological research, the relation between socioeconomic status (SES) and academic achievement is the most widely examined contextual effect. While several research syntheses have reported evidence of positive and significant SES–achievement relations (i.e., higher SES is associated with better academic achievement in several domains), they also reported substantial variation across educational contexts, such as classrooms, schools, and educational systems, and proposed mechanisms underlying these relations. This chapter addressed this variation and tested three hypotheses on the interplay between socioeconomic status, the disciplinary climate in science lessons, and science achievement—the compensation hypothesis, the mediation hypothesis, and the moderation hypothesis. Utilizing the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 data from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), multilevel structural equation modeling provided evidence to test the contextual, indirect, and cross-level interaction effects. While evidence for the compensation hypothesis existed in most Nordic countries, evidence supporting the mediating and moderating roles of the disciplinary climate for the SES–achievement relation was sparse.

Socioeconomic status and wellbeing as predictors of students’ academic achievement: evidence from a developing country

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Cahit Erdem ◽  
Metin Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
International Student ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
International Student Assessment

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and wellbeing (WB) on students’ academic achievement, particularly in developing countries; thus, it becomes necessary to understand the nature of these concurrent relationships. This study aimed to explore the relationships between SES, WB and academic achievement, based on the data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018 within the Turkish context. In this cross-sectional study, we used hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis to explore how the independent variables predicted academic achievement in blocks based on data from 6890 students attending 186 schools. The study revealed that the model, including the independent variables, predicted students’ achievement in reading, mathematics and science; however, the prediction level of demographic factors and domains of WB were very low, while SES had the highest prediction level. The results offer insights into the predictors of academic achievement and educational inequalities in the context of a developing country.

scholarly journals A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects: The Case of School Socioeconomic Composition

2021 ◽  
pp. 004912412098619
Author(s):  
Hao Zhou ◽  
Xin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
School Ses

Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) is often used to estimate the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on academic achievement at different levels of an educational system. However, if a prior academic achievement measure is missing in a HLM model, biased estimates may occur on the effects of student SES and school SES. Phantom effects describe the phenomenon in which the effects of student SES and school SES disappear once prior academic achievement is added to the model. In the present analysis, partial simulation (i.e., simulated data are used together with real-world data) was employed to examine the phantom effects of student SES and school SES on science achievement, using the national sample of the United States from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment. The results showed that the phantom effects of student SES and school SES are rather real. The stronger the correlation between prior science achievement and (present) science achievement, the greater the chance that the phantom effects occur.

scholarly journals The Influence of Foreign-born Population on Immigrant and Native-born Students’ Academic Achievement

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 237802311984525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencia Silveira ◽  
Mikaela J. Dufur ◽  
Jonathan A. Jarvis ◽  
Kristie J. Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
International Student ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Immigrant Status ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Relationship

With recent increases in international migration, some political and academic narratives argue for limiting migration because of possible negative effects on the host country. Among other outcomes, these groups argue that immigrant students have an impact on education, negatively affecting native-born students’ academic performance. The authors contextualize the relationship between immigrant status and academic achievement by considering a macro social setting: country-level foreign-born population. The authors examine achievement from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment in 41 high-income countries. The authors use within- and cross-level interactions to examine (1) the relationship between immigrant status and academic achievement, (2) the moderating effect of student socioeconomic status on achievement, and (3) how country-level foreign-born population affects both immigrant and native-born students’ performance. The findings indicate that immigrant students perform similarly to native-born students when considering other contextual factors, with socioeconomic status moderating the effect of immigrant status. Furthermore, all students, immigrant and nonimmigrant students alike, benefit academically from more immigration.

Principals and Student Achievement

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Marshall Perry ◽  
Karen M. Sealy ◽  
Héctor X. Ramírez-Pérez ◽  
Thomas C. DeNicola ◽  
Yair Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Level ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Context Specific

Connections between principal leadership activities, school context, and student achievement are examined within this paper. Data for this quantitative study are from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The eight countries of examination participated in both the TALIS and PISA and the researchers merged datasets, yielding a study sample of 1,301 schools. This paper supports a context-specific view of instructional leadership. When looking across countries, the researchers found different practices were more strongly associated with the academic achievement of students, and suggest that school leaders have a meaningful overall relationship with academic achievement, both directly and indirectly. This study therefore supports prior research about the direct and indirect effects of instructional leadership. Further study, which accounts for differences in family academic resources and school-level opportunities to learn, will better illuminate the connection between instructional leadership practices and academic achievement.

National Gross Domestic Product, Science Interest, and Science Achievement: A Direct Replication and Extension of the Tucker-Drob, Cheung, and Briley (2014) Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 776-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anqing Zheng ◽  
Elliot M. Tucker-Drob ◽  
Daniel A. Briley
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Science Interest ◽  
International Student Assessment

We replicated the study by Tucker-Drob, Cheung, and Briley (2014), who found that the association between science interest and science knowledge depended on economic resources at the family, school, and national levels, using data from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In more economically prosperous families, schools, and nations, student interest was more strongly correlated with actual knowledge. Here, we investigated whether these results still held despite substantial changes to educational and economic systems over roughly a decade. Using similar data from PISA 2015 ( N = 537,170), we found largely consistent results. Students from more economically advantaged homes, schools, and nations exhibited a stronger link between interests and knowledge. However, these moderation effects were substantially reduced, and the main effect of science interest increased by nearly 25%, driven almost entirely by families of low socioeconomic status and nations with low gross domestic product. The interdependence of interests and resources is robust but perhaps weakening with educational progress.

scholarly journals Can students themselves narrow the socioeconomic-status-based achievement gap through their own persistence and learning time?

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haigen Huang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
International Student ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
International Student Assessment

Despite decades of educational reforms, the achievement gap based on socioeconomic status (SES) persists in the United States. Not only does the SES-based achievement gap persist, it has also been widening. This study focused on the role of students, hypothesizing that students might reduce the SES-based achievement gap by increasing their learning time and persistence. I used both ANOVA and two-level hierarchical linear models (HLM) to analyze the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) United States data. The findings suggested that students viewing themselves to be persistent were likely to perform better than those viewing themselves to be less persistent. Also increased time learning in school was associated with increased achievement. However, high-SES students generally spent more time learning in school and viewed themselves to be more persistent. Thus learning time and persistence were not likely to address the SES constraint on achievement for a majority of low-SES students unless schools provided them extra classes and learning opportunities.

scholarly journals HAPPINESS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS VALUE IN KINDERGARTEN KHADIJAH

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 340
Author(s):  
Dian Lestari Hidayah ◽  
Nining Febriyana ◽  
Atika Atika
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Biological Mothers ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire

Background: Indonesia's education ranked sixth bottom of the 2018 world rankings compiled by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The value of academic achievement is an indicator of the quality of students in the academic field. One of the factors that influence achievement is children's intelligence. Child's intelligence is influenced by the happiness of his mother during pregnancy. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the happiness of pregnant women and the value of children's academic achievement in TK Khadijah Gedangan. Method: This type of research is an observational analytic study, using a cross sectional approach. The study population was all TK-A and TK-B students at TK Khadijah Gedangan and their biological mothers. The total sampling method was carried out according to the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. Collecting data using a demographic questionnaire and OHQ which was translated into Indonesian. SPSS software was used to test the Spearman rank correlation statistical test. Result: Obtained N = 54, significance value 0.514, correlation coefficient value -.091. Conclusion: The happiness of pregnant women is not related to the achievement scores of kindergarten children.Keywords: happiness, pregnant women, academic achievement 

Does the SES of the School Matter? An Examination of Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement Using PISA 2003

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 1137-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura B. Perry ◽  
Andrew Mcconney
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
School Students ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
School Ses

Background/Context It is well established in the research literature that socioeconomically disadvantaged students and schools do less well on standardized measures of academic achievement compared with their more advantaged peers. Although studies in numerous countries have shown that the socioeconomic profile of a school is strongly correlated with student outcomes, less is understood about how the relationship may vary if both individual student and school socioeconomic status (SES) are disaggregated. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This study examines the relationship between school SES and student outcomes in more detail by asking two research questions. First, how does the association vary for students of different socioeconomic backgrounds? In other words, is the association stronger for students from lower SES backgrounds than for students from higher SES backgrounds? Second, how does the association vary across schools with different socioeconomic compositions? In other words, are increases in school socioeconomic composition consistently associated with increases in student academic achievement? Population/Participants/Subjects This study uses data from the Australian 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The sample includes over 320 secondary schools and more than 12,000 students from Australia. Research Design This study is a secondary analysis of data from the Australian 2003 PISA. Descriptive statistics are used to compare the average reading, mathematics, and science achievement of secondary school students from different SES backgrounds in a variety of school SES contexts. Conclusions The two main findings of the study are that increases in the mean SES of a school are associated with consistent increases in students’ academic achievement, and that this relationship is similar for all students regardless of their individual SES. In the Australian case, the socio-economic composition of the school matters greatly in terms of students’ academic performance.

Principals and Student Achievement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1378-1404
Author(s):  
S. Marshall Perry ◽  
Karen M. Sealy ◽  
Héctor X. Ramírez-Pérez ◽  
Thomas C. DeNicola ◽  
Yair Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Level ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Context Specific

Connections between principal leadership activities, school context, and student achievement are examined within this paper. Data for this quantitative study are from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The eight countries of examination participated in both the TALIS and PISA and the researchers merged datasets, yielding a study sample of 1,301 schools. This paper supports a context-specific view of instructional leadership. When looking across countries, the researchers found different practices were more strongly associated with the academic achievement of students, and suggest that school leaders have a meaningful overall relationship with academic achievement, both directly and indirectly. This study therefore supports prior research about the direct and indirect effects of instructional leadership. Further study, which accounts for differences in family academic resources and school-level opportunities to learn, will better illuminate the connection between instructional leadership practices and academic achievement.

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