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09 SES 08 A, Findings from International Comparative Achievement Studies and their National Extensions: Issues in Equity and Inequality
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All adolescents are bound into their living environment that has an impact on their lives and learning in many ways. For example individual’s mental functions develop in different social, historical, cultural and institutional contexts. In these environments we can find different cultural features that have an impact on student’s educational outcome. For example in PISA 2009 –assessments 10 percent of the variance between student’s reading literacy outcomes could be explained with parents economic, social and cultural status index (ESCS) in Swedish-language schools (Harju-Luukkainen & Nissinen 2011). This index comprised information from items of student’s wealth, cultural position, home educational resources as well as books at home and parent’s highest occupations status and educational level. We can also find many other studies where the educational outcome is associated with cultural factors (see for example Carbonaro 1998 and Israel et al. 2001, OECD 2010)).
In this paper we take a macro perspective on education and learning and focus on wider social, economic, political and historical context where people live in. We think that this cultural context in different areas, to some extent, locates learning outcomes of individuals. Our aim in this paper is to ask if we can find a regional accumulation of learning outcomes in Finland, and if we can find similar regional patterns in different assessments. We will focus on educational outcome of Swedish-language schools in Finland. This is due to the fact that the Swedish-speaking population can be found only in some living areas of Finland, which in turn makes the areal comparisons less complex.
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References
Brimicombe, A. 2000. Constructing and evaluating contextual indices using GIS: A case of primary school performance tables. Environment and Planning A. 32(11), pp. 1909-1933. Carbonaro, W. (1998) A little help from my friend’s parents: Intergenerational Cosure and Educational Outcomes. Sociology of Education 1998, Vol 71 (Octoer): 295-313. Harju-Luukkainen, H. & Nissinen, K. 2011. Finlandssvenska 15-åriga elevers resultatnivå i PISA 2009 –undersökningen. Finnish Institute for Educational Research. University of Jyväskylä. Isaaks, E.H. & Srivastava, R.M. (1989) Applied Geostatistics. New York: Oxford University Press. Israel, G., Beaulieu, L. & Hartless, G. (2001). The influence of Family and Community Social Capital on Educational Achievement. Rural Sociology. Volume 66, Issue 1, pages 43-68, March 2001 OECD (2010), PISA 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background – Equity in Learning Opportunities and Outcomes (Volume II) http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264091504-en
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