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- Title
Rendimiento académico y ambiente social.
- Authors
RUIZ HERRERO, Jesús
- Abstract
The present article analyzes the influence that variables such as parents' level of educational attainment or occupation, level of income associated with the family's area of residence, or kind of school (private vs. state-run) might have on academic performance. The thesis presented states that these factors could account for the differentiated cognitive and perceptive schemata (habitus) that children develop to meet "the educational challenge". To demonstrate such relations, statistical procedures are used. The data tested here have been collected from the average results that different schools taking part in the CDI exam obtained in 2008 in the region of Madrid. This exam is held every academic year and organized by Consejería de Educación de Madrid (Madrid Office of Education) to evaluate if pupils taking test match the official academic level required for the grade they are in. Our perspective is further different than that which only tends to stress psycological factors as the main explanatory cause and which underlies the dominant discourses in education.
- Subjects
MADRID (Spain : Region); SPAIN; ACADEMIC achievement evaluation; ACADEMIC achievement testing; SOCIAL factors; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; EDUCATIONAL stratification; ACHIEVEMENT gap; PARENTS; PRIVATE schools; PUBLIC schools
- Publication
Politica y Sociedad, 2011, Vol 48, Issue 1, p155
- ISSN
1130-8001
- Publication type
Article