TY - JOUR
T1 - Do education system characteristics moderate the socioeconomic, gender and immigrant gaps in math and science achievement?
AU - Bodovski, Katerina
AU - Munoz, Ismael G.
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PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Using data from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study for 45 countries, we examined the size of socioeconomic, gender, and immigrant status related gaps, and their relationships with education system characteristics, such as differentiation, standardization, and proportion of governmental spending on education. We find that higher socioeconomic status is positively and significantly associated with higher math and science achievement; immigrant students lag behind their native peers in both math and science, with first generation students faring worse than second generation; and girls show lower math performance than boys. A higher degree of differentiation makes socioeconomic gaps larger in both math and science achievement, whereas higher governmental spending reduces socioeconomic achievement gaps.
AB - Using data from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study for 45 countries, we examined the size of socioeconomic, gender, and immigrant status related gaps, and their relationships with education system characteristics, such as differentiation, standardization, and proportion of governmental spending on education. We find that higher socioeconomic status is positively and significantly associated with higher math and science achievement; immigrant students lag behind their native peers in both math and science, with first generation students faring worse than second generation; and girls show lower math performance than boys. A higher degree of differentiation makes socioeconomic gaps larger in both math and science achievement, whereas higher governmental spending reduces socioeconomic achievement gaps.
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U2 - 10.17583/rise.2020.4807
DO - 10.17583/rise.2020.4807
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090748819
SN - 2014-3575
VL - 9
SP - 122
EP - 154
JO - International Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - International Journal of Sociology of Education
IS - 2
ER -