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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis:
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Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr....Abstract:
Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr...read more
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
TL;DR: MacLeod, Jay as mentioned in this paper conducted participant observation of two groups of male youth, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, but the two groups differed in important respects: the Hallways Hangers are predominantly white youth who, at that point in their young lives, openly resisted the American achievement ideology advanced by schools.
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More Tools for the Synthesist’s Toolbag in Harris Cooper’s Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (4th ed.)
TL;DR: Cooper's revised and expanded fourth edition of Research Synthesis and MetaAnalysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (2010) provides these needed guidelines with special attention given to the threats to validity at all steps of the research synthesis process.
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood as mentioned in this paper examines the long-term outcomes of the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP), a representative sample of Baltimore public school first-graders selected in the fall of 1982 and followed through 2006.
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Family socio-economic status and children's academic achievement: The different roles of parental academic involvement and subjective social mobility.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that there is a pathway from family SES to children's academic achievement through parental academic involvement and that this pathway is dependent on the level of parental subjective social mobility.
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Nutrition anaemia geohelminth infection and school achievement in rural Jamaican primary school children.
TL;DR: Despite mild levels, undernutrition and geohelminth infections were associated with achievement, suggesting that efforts to increase school achievement levels in developing countries should include strategies to improve the health and nutritional status of children.
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Meritocracy and the Gaokao: a survey study of higher education selection and socio-economic participation in East China
TL;DR: Huang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the extent to which higher education selection was based on meritocratic principles in contemporary China and found that socio-demographic factors appeared to be more significant than socio-economic status in affecting students’ higher education opportunities.
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Poverty, Physical Stature, and Cognitive Skills: Mechanisms Underlying Children's School Enrollment in Zambia.
TL;DR: Early learning in and out of the home was found to explain much of the relation between socioeconomic status and children's cognitive skills, including language, nonverbal reasoning, and executive function.
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The Surprisingly Modest Relationship Between SES and Educational Achievement
TL;DR: This paper showed that the SES-achievement relationship is surprisingly modest, with an average SES -achievements correlation of.22, although it appears to have strengthened in the past 3 decades.
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood as mentioned in this paper examines the long-term outcomes of the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP), a representative sample of Baltimore public school first-graders selected in the fall of 1982 and followed through 2006.
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