ERIC Number: EJ1243966
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Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 21
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Culture, Migration and Educational Performance: A Focus on Gender Outcomes Using Australian PISA Tests
Australian Educational Researcher, v47 n1 p39-59 Mar 2020
This paper explores how cultural and migrant backgrounds affect boys' and girls' high-school academic performance. Scores from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment are analysed for Australian children from migrant and non-migrant families, conditional upon a measure of gender equity in secondary education in their country of ancestry. Australia is a particularly pertinent case study as it has the third highest migrant (foreign-born) proportion among OECD countries (27.4% of population). We find that children from migrant backgrounds affording lower schooling access to children of their own gender achieve lower scores on PISA reading, mathematics and science tests. This holds when the sample is restricted to children born in Australia, providing strong evidence that the effect is cultural, with further analysis showing this effect to be more pronounced for boys.
Descriptors: High School Students, Cultural Background, Migrants, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Scores, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Cultural Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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