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The Role of Socioeconomic Background and Prior Achievement for Students' Perception of Teacher Support
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Atlay, Cansu; Tieben, Nicole; Fauth, Benjamin; Hillmert, Steffen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Building on the sociological work by Lareau, this study examined the association between students' socioeconomic background, prior achievement and the perception of teacher support within the classroom. We expected that students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds would be more critical about the support they receive in the classroom and rate…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Correlation
Why Some Countries Attract More High-Ability Young Students to Teaching: Cross-National Comparisons of Students' Expectation of Becoming a Teacher
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Park, Hyunjoon; Byun, Soo-Yong – Comparative Education Review, 2015
Using data from 37,570 students in 23 OECD countries in PISA 2006, we examine how national contexts shape the expectation of being a teacher at age 30 among high achieving students in secondary schools. Our results show considerable between-country differences in the degree of students' expectation of a teaching job. To address sources of this…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, High Achievement, Social Status