aspirations; higher education; social inequalities
Abstract :
[en] The first goal of this article is to assess, for each country belonging to the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the influence of pupils’ sociocultural background on educational aspirations. The second goal is to explore whether, after controlling for educational achievement, the residual influence of sociocultural background is still significant. In addition, the author estimates whether the sociocultural and academic characteristics of school composition have an additional impact on educational aspirations in this group of countries. Finally, they shows that the structural characteristics of school systems moderate the influence of individual characteristics and school composition on educational aspirations.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
DUPRIEZ, Vincent; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL
Monseur, Christian ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'éducation et formation > Psychométrie et édumétrie
VAN CAMPENHOUDT, Maud; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL
Lafontaine, Dominique ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'éducation et formation > Analyse des systèmes et pratiques d'enseignement
Language :
English
Title :
Social Inequalities of Post-secondary Educational Aspirations : influence of social background, school composition and institutional context
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