ERIC Number: EJ1459238
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Understanding Subject Choices from Report Card Grades: Gender and Educational Level Disparities
Research Papers in Education, v40 n1 p24-43 2025
Pupils' subject choices at the level of secondary education critically determine the tertiary fields of study that they can pursue. This study used multinomial logistic regression models to investigate the extent to which the final report card grades of ninth-grade students predicted their choices of subject combinations at the senior general secondary education (N = 771) and pre-university education (N = 494) levels. Final report card grades determined 55.4% to 64.1% of the pupils' choices. The most relevant predictors were pupils' grades for mathematics, history, economics, physics, chemistry, and English language. Differential and interaction effects of educational level and gender were evident. For example, at the level of senior general education, mathematics and chemistry were stronger influencers of the choices of girls than of boys, whereas at the pre-university education level, these subjects were stronger influencers for boys than for girls.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Grades (Scholastic), Report Cards, Career Choice, Course Selection (Students), Decision Making, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables, College Bound Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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