SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Programme For International Student Assessment, Quartile, Socalled
31 Dec 2018
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The uneven distribution of students, particularly the pooling of disadvantaged students in low socioeconomic status schools (usually government schools) has created the widening gaps in the social and academic profiles of schools. Outcomes for students in lower socioeconomic status schools and communities have worsened. In contrast, high ses students achieving the highest proficiency levels is about 5 times that of low ses students. On average, 15 year-old students from low ses quartile families are about 2. 5 years behind their high ses counterparts (3 years in nsw). 2. 5 years behind non-indigenous students (acer 2013: 37-38). This gap is exacerbated by large differences in the social composition of schools. An average low ses 15 year-old student in a severely disadvantaged school is about 3 years behind her high ses peer in a school of mostly high income families. In australia, so-called private schools are not really private (as in usa) but.
