Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence
Although a positive relationship between socio-economic status and academic achievement is well-established, how it varies with age is not. This article uses four data points from Canada's National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth (NLSCY) to examine how the academic achievement gap attr...
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| description | Although a positive relationship between socio-economic status and academic achievement is well-established, how it varies with age is not. This article uses four data points from Canada's National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth (NLSCY) to examine how the academic achievement gap attributed to SES changes from childhood to adolescence (ages 7 to 15). Estimates of panel data and hierarchical linear models indicate that the gap remains fairly stable from the age of 7 to 11 years and widens at an increasing rate from the age of 11 to the age of 15 years. Theoretical arguments and policy implications surrounding this finding are discussed. ©2009 Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation/Canadian Society for the Study of Education. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:078ac0b2-a0f0-402c-bb82-b5d51d6b72b42022-03-26T09:08:03ZSocio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescenceJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:078ac0b2-a0f0-402c-bb82-b5d51d6b72b4EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2009Caro, DMcDonald, JDouglas Willms, JAlthough a positive relationship between socio-economic status and academic achievement is well-established, how it varies with age is not. This article uses four data points from Canada's National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth (NLSCY) to examine how the academic achievement gap attributed to SES changes from childhood to adolescence (ages 7 to 15). Estimates of panel data and hierarchical linear models indicate that the gap remains fairly stable from the age of 7 to 11 years and widens at an increasing rate from the age of 11 to the age of 15 years. Theoretical arguments and policy implications surrounding this finding are discussed. ©2009 Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation/Canadian Society for the Study of Education. |
| spellingShingle | Caro, D McDonald, J Douglas Willms, J Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title | Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_full | Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_fullStr | Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_short | Socio-economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_sort | socio economic status and academic achievement trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
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