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Childs, Stephen; Finnie, Ross; Mueller, Richard E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This paper extends the current literature on access to post-secondary education by investigating the role played by various family background characteristics related to the home environment and family habits and behaviours. Exploiting the extraordinary richness of the Youth in Transition Survey in this regard, we include whether the family ate…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Correlation, College Attendance, Foreign Countries
Maya Komakhidze; Katherine Reynolds; Erin Wry; Bethany Fishbein; Ann Kennedy; Matthias von Davier – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, causing one of the largest disruptions to schooling in history. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced unprecedented challenges for education research and large-scale assessments of student populations. Both schools and researchers were forced to modify…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Grade 4, Achievement Tests
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. – 2003
For eight years, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has been engaged in surveying the attitudes of teens and those who most influence them--parents, teachers and school principals. While other surveys seek to measure the extent of substance abuse in the population, the CASA survey probes substance-abuse risk and identifies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Correlation, Family Life, Family Relationship