Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests

This paper explores how cultural and migrant backgrounds affect boys’ and girls’ high-school academic performance. Scores from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment are analysed for Australian children from migrant and non-migrant families, conditional upon a measure of gender equi...

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Main Authors: Dockery, Alfred Michael, Koshy, Paul, Li, I.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75367
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description This paper explores how cultural and migrant backgrounds affect boys’ and girls’ high-school academic performance. Scores from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment are analysed for Australian children from migrant and non-migrant families, conditional upon a measure of gender equity in secondary education in their country of ancestry. Australia is a particularly pertinent case study as it has the third highest migrant (foreign-born) proportion among OECD countries (27.4% of population). We find that children from migrant backgrounds affording lower schooling access to children of their own gender achieve lower scores on PISA reading, mathematics and science tests. This holds when the sample is restricted to children born in Australia, providing strong evidence that the effect is cultural, with further analysis showing this effect to be more pronounced for boys.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-753672019-05-09T05:00:30Z Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests Dockery, Alfred Michael Koshy, Paul Li, I. This paper explores how cultural and migrant backgrounds affect boys’ and girls’ high-school academic performance. Scores from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment are analysed for Australian children from migrant and non-migrant families, conditional upon a measure of gender equity in secondary education in their country of ancestry. Australia is a particularly pertinent case study as it has the third highest migrant (foreign-born) proportion among OECD countries (27.4% of population). We find that children from migrant backgrounds affording lower schooling access to children of their own gender achieve lower scores on PISA reading, mathematics and science tests. This holds when the sample is restricted to children born in Australia, providing strong evidence that the effect is cultural, with further analysis showing this effect to be more pronounced for boys. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75367 10.1007/s13384-019-00321-7 restricted
spellingShingle Dockery, Alfred Michael
Koshy, Paul
Li, I.
Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests
title Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests
title_full Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests
title_fullStr Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests
title_full_unstemmed Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests
title_short Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests
title_sort culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using australian pisa tests
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75367