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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
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Palardy, Gregory J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
Qualitative research has identified college choice organizational habitus (CCOH) as an important mediating mechanism through which high school socioeconomic composition influences students' college choice, perpetuating social reproduction and educational inequity. This study examines the mediation effects of 2 general forms of CCOH: normative…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Demography, Socioeconomic Status, College Choice
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Azigwe, John Bosco – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
International surveys of student achievement are becoming increasingly popular with governments around the world, as they try to measure the performance of their country's education system. The main reason for this trend is the shared opinion that countries will need to be able to compete in the "knowledge economy" to assure the economic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students