Socio-economic status and academic performance in higher education: A systematic review

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Historical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years

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The Influence of Personality Traits on University Performance: Evidence from Italian Freshmen Students

“…The parental variables are indicators of educational level, occupational status and industry. As measures of the socioeconomic status of the student at the time of matriculation, the parental variables are potential vectors of academic performance (Delaney et al, 2011;Rodríguez-Hernández et al, 2020). Moreover, the relationship between personality traits and student scores may be influenced by parental characteristics as educational level and occupational industry.…”

Bridging contextual and individual factors of academic achievement: a multi-level analysis of diversity in the transition to higher education

“…Another line of research tackled students' educational or socioeconomic background. Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were found to have lower achievement (Rodríguez-Hernández, Cascallar, E., & Kyndt, 2020;Sirin, 2005). Several studies based on Social Capital Theory (Bourdieu, 1986) identified social capital as an explanation of how socioeconomic status is related to academic achievement.…”

“…Several studies based on Social Capital Theory (Bourdieu, 1986) identified social capital as an explanation of how socioeconomic status is related to academic achievement. Yet, this idea was recently questioned and criticized (Rodríguez-Hernández et al, 2020). The meta-analysis of Richardson and colleagues (2012) estimated a corrected correlation of .15 with academic achievement.…”