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Gülseli Baysu; Eva Grew; Jessie Hillekens; Karen Phalet – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated trajectories of ethnic discrimination experiences in school, diversity climates as contextual antecedents, and school adjustment as outcome. Latent-Growth-Mixture-Models of repeated self-reported discrimination over 3 years (2012-2015) by 1445 ethnically-minoritized adolescents of Turkish and Moroccan background in 70…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Social Discrimination, Minority Group Students, Student Adjustment
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Orhan Agirdag; Jozefien De Leersnyder – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Although schools with a high concentration of ethnic minorities often underperform, not much is known about the factors that predict high and even excellent achievement of pupils within these schools. Therefore, we examined which concrete diversity practices and key psychological processes increase or decrease the likelihood/odds for high and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Curriculum
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Corradi, David; Nicolaï, Jonas; Levrau, François – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
A wide range of mindset interventions has been designed to tackle the educational gap and improve the academic achievements of underperforming students. These interventions often target small student samples in experimental or homogeneous educational settings. This paper will explicitly emphasize the role of context in the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Lens, Dries; Levrau, François – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Discussions about social justice imply discussions about higher education. After all, a whole set of literature has illustrated how ethnic minority students face all types of difficulties to become successful at college level. In line with this literature, the present research offers a case study of one Flemish University nested in a growing…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, Academic Achievement
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Driessen, Geert – Intercultural Education, 2015
A review of the empirical literature was conducted to establish the relation between teacher and student ethnicity, and cognitive and noncognitive student outcomes. It was hypothesized that ethnic teacher-student congruence results in more favorable outcomes for especially minority students. A total of 24 quantitative studies focusing on primary…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Teacher Background, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
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Baysu, Gülseli; Celeste, Laura; Brown, Rupert; Verschueren, Karine; Phalet, Karen – Child Development, 2016
Can perceptions of equal treatment buffer the negative effects of threat on the school success of minority students? Focusing on minority adolescents from Turkish and Moroccan heritage in Belgium (M[subscript age] = 14.5; N = 735 in 47 ethnically diverse schools), multilevel mediated moderation analyses showed: (a) perceived discrimination at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Adolescents, Student Diversity
Tupan-Wenno, Mary; Camilleri, Anthony Fisher; Fröhlich, Melanie; King, Sadie – Online Submission, 2016
Despite all intentions in the course of the Bologna Process and decades of investment into improving the social dimension, results in many national and international studies show that inequity remains stubbornly persistent, and that inequity based on socio-economic status, parental education, gender, country-of-origin, rural background and more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Baysu, Gulseli; Phalet, Karen; Brown, Rupert – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2011
Some members of ethnic minority groups respond to identity threat in ways that are detrimental to their school career, while others persist despite an unwelcoming school environment. It was hypothesized that ethnic and national identities, as combined in "separated," "assimilated," or "dual identity" strategies,…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Educational Environment, Minority Groups, Cultural Differences
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Baysu, Gulseli; Phalet, Karen – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background: Bridging educational and social psychology, we examine the impact of positive intergroup relations in schools on minority and nonminority school careers. Purpose of Study: The study aims to estimate and explain the attainment gap between Turkish Belgian minority and Belgian nonminority students at four stages of their school careers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Social Psychology, Friendship
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Hermans, Philip – Intercultural Education, 2004
Ogbu's theories relating to the educational achievement of minorities seem to be at odds with the situation of the largest minority groups in Belgium and the Netherlands. Moroccans form a voluntary minority but, after three generations, their children still lag in terms of school results. Ethnographic research among Moroccans in both countries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Ethnography, Educational Policy
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Chance Favors the Prepared Mind": Report Finds that Students in the Highest-Achieving States Score As Well…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries