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Unravelling Socioeconomic School Composition Effects on Higher Education Enrollment: The Role of Students' Individual and Shared Feelings of Futility and Self-Efficacy
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Vandelannote, Isis; Demanet, Jannick – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
Despite the massification of higher education, social inequality in higher education outcomes still persists. It is known that secondary schools' socioeconomic composition is at least partly responsible for this social inequality. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which socioeconomic composition affects higher education enrollment are still poorly…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, School Demography, School Culture, Higher Education
Socioeconomic Status, Economic Deprivation, and School Misconduct: An Inquiry into the Role of Academic Self-Efficacy in Four European Cities
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Demanet, Jannick; Van Houtte, Mieke – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
Strain theories expect socio-economically disadvantaged students to be overrepresented among perpetrators of school-deviant behavior. Empirical research, however, is inconclusive about the SES-deviance relationship. Recently, strain theorists argued that economic deprivation, rather than a socio-economic status (SES) index is related to…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged Youth, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
"Everyone Has Their Own Qualities": Tracking and Academic Self-Appraisal in Flemish Secondary Education
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Van Praag, Lore; Demanet, Jannick; Stevens, Peter A. J.; Van Houtte, Mieke – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Track position has an impact on students' perceptions of educational success. These perceptions matter as they relate to educational and professional aspirations and choices. In this ethnographic study, based on ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews in three secondary schools in Flanders (northern part of Belgium), we want to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Secondary School Students
Curriculum Tracking and Teacher Evaluations of Individual Students: Selection, Adjustment or Labeling?
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Demanet, Jannick; Stevens, Peter A. J. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2013
Past research into the consequences of tracking mainly documented on the impact of attending different tracks on students' achievement and behavior. Less attention has been paid to the impact of track positions on teachers' perceptions and expectations regarding students. By means of multi-level analysis of data of 6,545 students in 46 Flemish…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Student Evaluation, Homework, Teacher Attitudes