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

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    Authors
    Dockery, Alfred Michael
    Koshy, Paul
    Li, I.
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Dockery, A.M. and Koshy, P. and Li, I.W. 2019. Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests. Australian Educational Researcher.
    Source Title
    Australian Educational Researcher
    DOI
    10.1007/s13384-019-00321-7
    ISSN
    0311-6999
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75367
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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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