Kingdon, Geeta and Cassen, Robert (2010) Ethnicity and low achievement in English schools. British Educational Research Journal, 36 (3). pp. 403-431. ISSN 0141-1926
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Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper asks: what is the ethnic dimension of the low achievement problem? We focus on six aspects, using the National Pupil Database: whether the relation between ethnicity and incidence of low achievement is symmetrical with the relation between ethnicity and achievement; whether economic disadvantage is an equally large risk factor for low achievement among pupils of all ethnicities; whether the relationship of ethnicity with low achievement varies by peer group; whether the relationship between gender and chances of low achievement differs by ethnic group; whether the relation between ethnicity and low achievement changes with age; and lastly, whether there is sorting by ethnicity into schools of better or worse quality. We find that: (1) the relationship between low achievement and achievement is not symmetrical and, therefore, that it is valuable to measure low achievement directly rather than as the negative of achievement; (2) economic disadvantage has a stronger effect on White students than those of ethnic minorities; (3) the relationship between ethnicity and low achievement does vary with age; (4) ethnic peer-group effects are not significant; (5) the gender gap in the probability of low achievement is significantly larger for most ethnic groups compared with the White group, at least by one measure of low achievement; and (6) attending poorer-quality schools is part of the explanation of differential ethnic minority performance. We offer explanations for our findings and for the presence and/or persistence of inter-ethnic differences in the chances of low achievement.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CBER |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 British Educational Research Association |
| Divisions: | Social Policy STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | University Structure > Language Centre |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2011 16:43 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 22:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32509 |
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