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Ferrão, Maria Eugénia; Costa, Patrícia Mota; Matos, Daniel Abud Seabra – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
The paper extends the literature on grade repetition in Brazil by (a) describing and synthesizing the main research findings and contributions since 1940, (b) enlarging the understanding of the inequity mechanism in education, and (c) providing new findings on the effects of the school socioeconomic composition and school proportion of repeaters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Marteleto, Leticia; Andrade, Fernando – Sociology of Education, 2014
Most studies find a positive correlation between family cultural capital and educational achievement. As compelling as the evidence on the advantages of family cultural capital for educational achievement is, most studies have focused on countries characterized by having a large middle class and high levels of income, not addressing societies with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Family School Relationship