Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Students Who Are Academically Successful : Examining Academic Resilience Cross-Nationally. Policy Brief No. 5 / Ebru Erberber, Maria Stephens and Saida Mamedova.

Academically resilient students are those students who are academically successful, despite coming from the socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds that have typically predicted poorer educational outcomes. These students are an important group to study because if policymakers can understand wha...

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Main Authors: Erberber, Ebru, Stephens, Maria, 1972- (Author), Mamedova, Saida (Author), Ferguson, Sharlyn (Author), Kroeger, Teresa (Author)
Corporate Authors: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, American Institutes for Research
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2015.
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Summary:Academically resilient students are those students who are academically successful, despite coming from the socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds that have typically predicted poorer educational outcomes. These students are an important group to study because if policymakers can understand what factors may have contributed to their succeeding against the odds, then they may be better able to support similar students in improving their academic performance. Raising the performance of socioeconomically disadvantaged students benefits both those individual students and the equity of the system overall. This brief uses 2011 eighth-grade data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to explore (1) how prevalent academically resilient students are across education systems, and (2) what factors are associated with academic resilience within those systems.
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Abstractor: As Provided.
Educational level discussed: Grade 8.
Educational level discussed: Junior High Schools.
Educational level discussed: Middle Schools.
Educational level discussed: Elementary Education.
Educational level discussed: Secondary Education.
Physical Description:1 online resource (12 pages)
ISSN:2215-0196
Type of Computer File or Data Note:Text (Reports, Research)
Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note:International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.