Session Information
09 SES 06 A, Findings from International Comparative Achievement Studies. Symposium Session 2: Addressing Equity and Inequality
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Contribution
Findings from PISA show that successful school systems are those that perform at an above-average level and show below-average socioeconomic inequalities. While the goal of the Australian Ministers of Education aligns with this, being to achieve excellence and to ensure that socioeconomic disadvantage ceases to be a significant determinant of educational outcomes, the goal of excellence was recently thrown into doubt with the results of the 2011 PIRLS assessment, the first in which Australia participated. Australian students’ performance was significantly lower than that of most other English-speaking countries. Moreover, the gap between the scores for students in advantaged schools and those in disadvantaged schools was second highest of this group of countries, throwing the goal of equity also into doubt. This study examines differences between disadvantaged and advantaged schools in each of the English-speaking countries on a number of contextual variables at both student and school level, and uses Hierarchical Linear Modelling to investigate to what extent the achievement in each country is explained by these contextual variables and by attendance at advantaged and disadvantaged schools. It is hoped that the findings from this analysis will provide directions that Australia can take to close the equity gap.
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