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School Processes Mediate School Compositional Effects: Model Specification and Estimation
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Liu, Hongqiang; Van Damme, Jan; Gielen, Sarah; Van Den Noortgate, Wim – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
School composition effects have been consistently verified, but few studies ever attempted to study how school composition affects school achievement. Based on prior research findings, we employed multilevel mediation modeling to examine whether school processes mediate the effect of school composition upon school outcomes based on the data of 28…
Descriptors: School Demography, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Educational Resources, Educational Opportunities
Do Parental Attitudes toward and Expectations for Their Children's Education and Future Jobs Matter for Their Children's School Achievement?
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Tan, Cheng Yong – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
The traditional discourse in the scholarship on cultural capital theory has focused on how exclusive participation in elite status culture by students from higher socioeconomic status families benefits their learning in schools, the effects of which are most evident in linguistic subject areas such as reading achievement. However, some scholars…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, Expectation, Cultural Capital
The Contribution of Cultural Capital to Students' Mathematics Achievement in Medium and High Socioeconomic Gradient Economies
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Tan, Cheng Yong – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
The present study addresses the issue of how different forms of cultural capital may influence children's mathematics achievement in economies with different socioeconomic gradients. Data from 73,178 parent-child dyads from 10 economies with different socioeconomic gradients who participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Mathematics Achievement, Socioeconomic Influences, Parent Child Relationship