The relevance of the school socioeconomic composition and school proportion of repeaters on grade repetition in Brazil: a multilevel logistic model of PISA 2012

The relevance of the school socioeconomic composition and school proportion of repeaters on grade repetition in Brazil: a multilevel logistic model of PISA 2012

Abstract The paper extends the literature on grade repetition in Brazil by (a) describing and synthesizing the main research findings and contributions since 1940, (b) enlarging the understanding of the inequity mechanism in education, and (c) providing new findings on the effects of the school soci...

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Main Authors: Maria Eugénia Ferrão, Patrícia Mota Costa, Daniel Abud Seabra Matos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-02-01
Series:Large-scale Assessments in Education
Subjects:
Grade repetition
Multilevel model
School composition effect
Educational inequity
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40536-017-0036-8

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