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Danilo Kuzmanic; Francisco Meneses; Juan Pablo Valenzuela; Patricio Rodríguez; Susana Claro – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic-associated learning losses were unequal across school subjects and sociodemographic groups. This study posits that these losses are also heterogeneous based on pre-pandemic school effectiveness, that is, the value schools added above the expected students' learning based on their socioeconomic background. Using national-scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Effectiveness
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Gutiérrez, Gabriel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Studies regarding school composition have been highly influential in the design of policies. However, methodological and conceptual controversies have hindered the emergence of a consensus on the existence, size, and direction of peer effects. Drawing on four cohorts of Chilean students (n = 620,044), this work analyses the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 4
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Hascoët, Marine; Giaconi, Valentina; Jamain, Ludivine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Family socioeconomic status (SES) has a significant influence on children's academic success and is related to parents' attitudes toward education. Moreover, according to the expectancy-value theory, parental expectations are linked to their children's perceptions of school, which, in turn, influences the way their children invest themselves in…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Expectation, Parent Attitudes, Mathematics Achievement
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Maria-Paz Fernandez; Jinwen Luo – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Introduction: Increasing evidence has shown that student mobility is negatively correlated with individual students' and schools' academic performance (Hanushek, Kain, & Rivkin, 2004; Lara, Mizala, & Repetto, 2011; Sun & Pan, 2014). However, the negative impact may be due to the switching behavior or it could be only a side effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Student Adjustment, Student School Relationship
Montebruno, Piero – Centre for Economic Performance, 2020
Disrupted schooling can heavily impact the amount of education pupils receive. Starting in early June of 2011 a huge social outburst of pupil protests, walk-outs, riots and school occupations called the Chilean Winter caused more than 8 million of lost school days. Within a matter of days, riots reached the national level with hundreds of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Social Action, Violence
Rafael Carrasco – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In this dissertation, I address the issue of social inequalities in education and the role of the education system in confronting them. The project involves two main parts, one empirical and the other conceptual. In the first part--chapters 1 and 2--I address the practical dimension of how to reduce social inequalities in education by exploring…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Strategies, Social Differences, Low Income Students