Influences on educational achievement
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- Created on: 24-03-18 17:34
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- influences on educational achievement
- Home Factors
- Parental values and expectations
- parents with professional jobs are more likely to have high expectations of their children and monitor their performance
- Parents educational background
- parents with high educational qualifications are more able to help with homework
- economic circumstances
- students from well off backgrounds are more likely to have facilities to study at home
- cultural background
- chinese culture values education and respecting elders very highly, so britich chinese pupils have high educational aspirations.
- Parental values and expectations
- School Factors
- The school curriculum
- the curriculum has been seen to be biased towards white European cultures as other histories are not really included.
- Teachers expectations and labelling
- negative labeling leads to a self fulfilling prophecy
- pupil cultures
- pupils can experience peer pressure or fall into anti-school cub cultures
- institutional racism
- the unintended consequences of the way that institutions are organised
- The school curriculum
- Government policies
- school's admissions policies
- certsain admissions policies work against those from disadvantaged backgrounds
- marketisation
- national league tables have a negative effect on low achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Educational Maintenance Allowance
- gave students from low income backgrounds financial help if they continued education after GCSE's
- school's admissions policies
- Home Factors
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