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Kudrnác, Aleš; Lyons, Pat – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
This study examines the general question of how classroom characteristics are linked with differences among students in civic competence, which is seen to be an important basis for political inequality. A resource-mobilisation account of youth civic competence is presented, and this is tested using hierarchical linear modelling and International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Knowledge Level
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Collado, Diego; Lomos, Catalina; Nicaise, Ides – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In Chile, the influence of the socioeconomic make-up of classrooms on achievement has been extensively studied in mathematics and language, but less in currently important non-traditional subjects such as civic knowledge. This paper analyses the effects of the socioeconomic composition of classrooms on students' civic knowledge achievement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Student Characteristics, Civics