Paying for School Choice: Availability Differences among Local Education Markets

Liu, Jin

doi:10.22230/ijepl.2016v11n5a674

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“…These schools are putting in place strategies to attract more students and also to retain already existing students. However, the findings are incongruent with that of Lee (2016) who avers that most parents in industrial nations prefer day SHSs that are co-education. Canals et al (2018) avow that the closeness of a school to parents' residence or home is possibly less influential in parental choice of a school.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…For school choice advocates, the argument is clear that government should create a fair ground for parents to choose which type of school they want for their children. Therefore, the situation where public schools in most countries have exclusive control over public education resources as compared to private schools (Lee, 2016;Woods, Bagley & Glatter, 2018), and the allocation and distribution of public funds should not be the case since such a situation will lead to the benefit of public schools over private SHSs with regard to parents' choice of a school. In Ghana, the situation is too skewed because more than 90 percent of government resources on education, with regard to secondary education, go to public SHSs (MoE, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Predictors of School Choice: The Case of Parents in Cape Coast, Ghana

Saani

Amonoo

2021

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<div>We identified the pertinent factors affecting parents’ choice of a particular senior high school (SHS) in Ghana, focusing on parents with at least one child in a SHS in Ghana and are residents of Cape Coast. The approach and design used were quantitative and descriptive survey design respectively. A sample of 637 of the parents, made up of 349 women and 288 men, was used. The parents were selected using convenience and snowball sampling techniques. A questionnaire, with a reliability coefficient ranging from 0.735 – 0.829, was the instrument used to collect the data. Out of the 637 parents sampled, we were able to retrieve 588 completed questionnaires, representing 92.3 percent response rate. The data were analysed using cross tabulation and linear multiple regression analysis. The findings revealed that parents preferred public boarding SHS which is single-sex education. Also, parents preferred schools with excellent academic record, quality instruction, and positive school values. Similarly, family/parental related factors such as family moral and religious values, and parents’ income and education levels, and also social related factors such as school popularity and brand, peer influence, and social network predict significantly and positively parents’ choice of a particular SHS. We conclude that school, family and social related factors are able to influence parents’ school choice. It is recommended to heads of SHSs to be attentive to the various institutional factors and create schools that address the needs of the parents in their communities in order to attract and retain students.</div><div> </div><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0889/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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Predictors of School Choice: The Case of Parents in Cape Coast, Ghana

Saani

Amonoo

2021

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“…In addition to parents preferences, availability of schools, defined as the existence of schools in a given district, and accessibility, defined as the probability of families to be accepted by schools, are also relevant conditions of school choice [12]. Considering our simulations, Figure 1 (individual expectations) shows lower conditions for accessibility particularly below the critical threshold ( < c ), irrespective of whether schools exist in the neighborhood or not.…”

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“…In the last decade, the controversy remains. While some analyses emphasize that 2 Complexity school choice, as a right to decide or promote distributive justice, is highly constrained by the prevailing inequities in the social environment (e.g., [10][11][12][13]), others highlight the achievements of parental choice, vouchers, and charter schools in increasing the options to choose from for families in regions with failing or low performance schools [14], in improving the general quality of the system through competition (e.g., [15,16]), and in achieving a better match between quality school offer and parental preferences (e.g., [17,18]).…”

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confidence: 99%

School Choice in a Market Environment: Individual versus Social Expectations

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School choice is a key factor connecting personal preferences (beliefs, desires, and needs) and school offer in education markets. While it is assumed that preferences are highly individualistic forms of expectations by means of which parents select schools satisfying their internal moral standards, this paper argues that a better matching between parental preferences and school offer is achieved when individuals take into account their relevant network vicinity, thereby constructing social expectations regarding school choice. We develop two related models (individual expectations and social expectations) and prove that they are driven by a Lyapunov function, obtaining that both models converge to fixed points. Also, we assess their performance by conducting computational simulations. While the individual expectations model shows a probabilistic transition and a critical threshold below which preferences concentrate in a few schools and a significant amount of students is left unattended by the school offer, the social expectations model presents a smooth dynamics in which most of the schools have students all the time and no students are left out. We discuss our results considering key topics of the empirical research on school choice in educational market environments and conclude that social expectations contribute to improve information and lead to a better matching between school offer and parental preferences.

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“…Already more than 30 years ago, Penchansky and Thomas (1981) published an article in this area entitled, ‘The concept of access: Definition and Relation to Consumer Satisfaction’. Nevertheless, this framework is still commonly used, not only concerning access to healthcare (Clark and Coffee, 2011; Derose, Gresenz and Ringel, 2011; Levesque, Harris and Russell, 2013) but also in a broader context of access to services (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 2013), for example to discover access barriers to healthy food (Usher, 2015; Zhang, 2017), access to energy security (Cherp and Jewell, 2014) and access to education (Lee, 2016). Also, the recent research of Saurman (2016) has re-evaluated, improved and extended Penchansky and Thomas’ framework.…”

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Access to care of frail community-dwelling older adults in Belgium: a qualitative study

Fret

Donder

Lambotte

et al. 2019

Prim Health Care Res Dev

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AimThis paper aims to identify barriers that frail community-dwelling older adults experience regarding access to formal care and support services.BackgroundUniversal access to healthcare has been set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a main goal for the post-2015 development agenda. Nevertheless, regarding access to care, particular attention has to be paid to the so-called vulnerable groups, such as (frail) older adults.MethodsBoth inductive and deductive content analyses were performed on 22 individual interviews with frail, community-dwelling older adults who indicated they lacked care and support. The coding scheme was generated from the conceptual framework ‘6A’s of access to care and support’ (referring to work of Penchansky and Thomas, 1981; Wyszewianski, 2002; Saurman, 2016) and applied on the transcripts.FindingsResults indicate that (despite all policy measures) access to a broad spectrum of care and support services remains a challenge for older people in Belgium. The respondents’ barriers concern: ‘affordability’ referring to a lot of Belgian older adults having limited pensions, ‘accessibility’ going beyond geographical accessibility but also concerning waiting lists, ‘availability’ referring to the lack of having someone around, ‘adequacy’ addressing the insufficiency of motivated staff, the absence of trust in care providers influencing ‘acceptability’, and ‘awareness’ referring to limited health literacy. The discussion develops the argument that in order to make care and support more accessible for people in order to be able to age in place, governments should take measures to overcome these access limitations (eg, by automatic entitlements) and should take into account a broad description of access. Also, a seventh barrier (a seventh A) within the results, namely ‘ageism’, was discovered.

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Paying for School Choice: Availability Differences among Local Education Markets

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Predictors of School Choice: The Case of Parents in Cape Coast, Ghana

Predictors of School Choice: The Case of Parents in Cape Coast, Ghana

School Choice in a Market Environment: Individual versus Social Expectations

Access to care of frail community-dwelling older adults in Belgium: a qualitative study

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