Impact of individual characteristics and sociocultural environment on academic success

Demeulemeester, Jean‐Luc; Rochat, Denis

doi:10.1007/bf02295661

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“…As already mentioned, the literature has been trying to find out if differences in school attainment can partially be explained by ethnic origin even if we take account of the differences in socioeconomic backgrounds. In contrast with Demeulemeester and Rochat (1995), we show that this is not the case. Nowadays, being a foreigner at the ULB is not statistically significant in explaining success if we account for the student's socioeconomic status.…”

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“…Indeed, Table 1 shows a difference in success rates of female and male students of 7.69 percentage points. Concerning ethnic origin at the ULB, previous results show that nationality does influence student's success at university (Demeulemeester and Rochat 1995) and indeed, in our sample, the difference in the success rate reaches 9.55 percent between Belgian and foreign students (in favor of Belgian students). However, in the international literature, this debate boils down to whether ethnic origin or nationality differences help to explain educational attainment, even after controlling for differences in socioeconomic background in a multivariate model.…”

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“…Previous studies have analysed this question in Belgium's French community (Demeulemeester and Rochat 1995;Droesbeke, Hecquet and Wattelar 2001;Alaluf et al 2003) but had some serious drawbacks. For example, some use a small and undefined sub-sample increasing the risk of having a sample selection bias that they do not control for.…”

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“…The problem is that until now the existing studies in Belgium's French Community have either lacked socioeconomic information about the students (Droesbeke, Hecquet and Wattelar 2001), or precise evaluation methods of how the different factors interact (Demeulemeester andRochat 1995 andAlaluf et al 2003). With the help of a new database collected by the Universite´libre de Bruxelles (ULB), this article is a first step towards a complete analysis of students' path in a Belgian university.…”

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What are the Factors of Success at University? A Case Study in Belgium

Ortiz¹,

Dehon²

2008

CESifo Economic Studies

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By using a unique data set containing the entire newly enrolled student population at the University of Brussels, this case study aims to be the first complete analysis of the determinants that influence the student's path at university in Belgium. We analyse the probability of succeeding the first year at university in Brussels taking into account individual characteristics, prior schooling and socioeconomic background. Our results show that the socioeconomic background of the student influence success in a significant way. More specifically, the mother's level of education and the father's occupational activity seem to predominate. We observe also a difference in performance between students coming from different high school programs. Indeed, students coming from one of the two high school systems existing in Belgium's French Community (''traditionnel'' and ''ré nové ''), present non-homogenous results at the end of their first year. In addition and in contrast with some of the literature findings, Belgians and foreigners have the same first year performances if we take into account their socioeconomic environment. Moreover, the same results are obtained when we look at European and non-European students. Nevertheless, when we distinguish foreign students with respect to their level of integration, our analysis shows the existence of a ''European elite'' that comes to Belgium looking for a diploma and that do much better in their first year than Belgian students.

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What are the Factors of Success at University? A Case Study in Belgium

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Dehon²

2008

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“…At the family level, family demographic characteristics were observed to have a positive association with academic success (Demeulemeester & Rochat, 1995;McKenzie & Schweitzer, 2001). For instance, a "socio-cultural" learning environment in web development course was proved to be beneficial to African American students, especially female African American students (Seay, 2004).…”

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Academic Success Factors: An IT Student Perspective

Zhang

Aasheim

2011

JITE:Research

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Executive SummaryNumerous studies have identified causal factors for academic success. Factors vary from personal factors, such as cognitive style (McKenzie & Schweitzer, 2001), to social factors, such as culture differences (Aysan, Tanrıöğen, & Tanrıöğen, 1996). However, in these studies it is researchers who theorized the causal dimensions and hypothesized the causal factors. Students were passive objects used to test the theories or to validate the hypotheses. Each researcher may have developed his or her own scheme of causal structure. These structures are not necessarily identical among researchers nor are they the same as those of students. This study has two objectives. The first is to combine the factors that contribute to academic success that have been identified in the literature and to unify them under a single framework. This is achieved by reviewing the existing literature on academic success and on categorization of academic success factors in order to develop the framework.The second objective is to add the IT student perspective to the framework. That is to find out what factors are perceived by students as relevant to their academic success and to determine which are the most important. To this end, two surveys were administered to IT students. In the first survey, students identified causal factors related to their own academic success. In the second survey, students ranked factors according to importance. Students did not list any factors that had been previously presented in research. However, they did identify them at a more detailed level (for example, literature might look at effort as a factor, where students listed several activities that involve effort). However, students did not list some factors as important to their success that had been previously identified in the literature, most notably intelligence.The detailed results for the two surveys are presented and discussed. Recommendations are made for institutions and faculty based on the results obtained.

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Roads to Success in the Belgian French Community’s Higher Education System: Predictors of Dropout and Degree Completion at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Ortiz

Dehon

2013

Res High Educ

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Impact of individual characteristics and sociocultural environment on academic success

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

What are the Factors of Success at University? A Case Study in Belgium

What are the Factors of Success at University? A Case Study in Belgium

Academic Success Factors: An IT Student Perspective

Roads to Success in the Belgian French Community’s Higher Education System: Predictors of Dropout and Degree Completion at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

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