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Factors affecting Grade 3 student performance in Ontario: A multilevel analysis
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Tremblay, Stéphane Ross, Nancy Annette Berthelot, Jean-Marie |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | This study uses an ecological conceptual approach to examine factors influencing academic performance of Grade 3 students in Ontario. The data come from Ontario's Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), which administered Ontario-wide standardized tests to some 115,000 English-speaking Grade 3 students from more than 3,200 schools in 1997. The EQAO also administered surveys that provided information about students, their classrooms, their schools and their families. Information about neighbourhoods was obtained by linking school catchment areas with census socio-economic status (SES) characteristics. Multilevel regression analyses were used because of the nested structure of the data. While individual student characteristics accounted for the majority of the variation in test scores, a surprising 33% of the total variation was associated with the classrooms and schools. This suggests that teachers, classrooms, schools and neighbourhoods are important for student achievement. At the student level, girls outperformed boys, students from higherSES backgrounds performed better than those from lower-SES backgrounds, and those with parents involved at school performed better than those with non-involved parents. Class-level variables that positively affected performance included lower numbers of students in the classroom and experienced teachers who were comfortable with the curriculum. At the school level, achievement was higher in schools located in higher-SES neighbourhoods, and students in urban schools outperformed those in rural schools. These results suggest that policies aimed at improving elementary school achievement should be informed by an understanding that school contextual factors make a difference for educational outcomes. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/grade3ontario.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
