Session Information
07 SES 08 A, Education, Inequality and Social Cohesion: Cross-National Perspectives
Symposium
Contribution
This paper analyses the mechanisms of stratification and inequalities in educational achievements. The main objective is to determine how stratification leads to unequal educational outcomes and how inequalities are channelled through student characteristics, school characteristics and peer effects. The paper shows that inequalities should no longer be measured as the simple impact of student backgrounds on performance scores; but should also be seen as the result of stratification-determined variations in school and peer quality. It should be noted that the magnitude and nature of stratification vary between countries according to the characteristics of education systems. Thus, a comparative approach is needed in order to fully analyse the mechanisms of inequalities under different systems. The selected countries are Germany Finland, the UK, Italy, and Japan, and the dataset used is PISA 2003. The paper is organized in three sections. In section one a descriptive analysis is used to shed light on the education systems of the five selected countries. In section two, a multilevel model is elaborated in order to quantify the impact of student, school and peer characteristics on performance scores. Finally, in the last section, policy implications are derived.
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