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OECD Publishing, 2018
PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest quarter of socio-economic status reach, at best, only the baseline level of proficiency (Level 2) in reading, mathematics or science. While in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong (China), Ireland, Japan, Korea, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Van Praag, Lore; Boone, Simon; Van Caudenberg, Rut; Nouwen, Ward; Timmerman, Christiane – Educational Studies, 2020
Increasing numbers of youngsters are at risk of early school leaving. In this study, we examine educational decision-making of inner-city youth during their educational trajectories and how this could contribute to the decision to leave school without an educational qualification. Based on interviews with 34 youngsters in a Flemish city (Antwerp,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Attitudes
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Deimel, Daniel; Hoskins, Bryony; Abs, Hermann J. – Educational Psychology, 2020
Both direct and indirect influences have been assumed to impact the transmission of political orientations within families. A lower socioeconomic status is related to lower intended political participation of adolescents. Within this context, schools play a crucial role in political socialisation, as citizenship education is assumed to either…
Descriptors: School Role, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Socialization
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Stevens, Peter A. J.; Van Houtte, Mieke – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
This article builds on research on teacher adaptations to students by exploring how Belgian and English national contexts influence teachers' definitions of educational success, their explanations of educational failure, and their allocation of scarce educational resources to disadvantaged students. Ethnographic data from one Flemish (Belgian) and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement, Ethnography, Foreign Countries