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Marks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2019
The literature on the relationship between socioeconomic background (SES) and university education is inconsistent. Some studies conclude SES is important to university entry and course completion, others find trivial SES effects, net of students' prior performance, and a third group concludes that SES effects are important and policy relevant…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Murdoch, Jake; Kamanzi, Pierre Canisius; Doray, Pierre – Irish Educational Studies, 2011
In this article, we use data from the Canadian Youth in Transition Survey (YITS). This survey has followed longitudinally the Canadian Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) students originally surveyed in 2000. The aim of this article is to look to what extent social factors (e.g. gender, parental education and socio-economic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Status, Foreign Countries, Access to Education