Socioeconomic status and wellbeing as predictors of students’ academic achievement: evidence from a developing country

Erdem, Cahit; Kaya, Metin

doi:10.1017/jgc.2021.10

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“…One approach examines well-being as a means or source of successful learning and academic achievement. This approach is supported by international studies that show positive effects of subjective well-being on self-confidence, curiosity, and openness to new situations (Cefai & Spiteri 2021;Erdem & Kaya 2021;Lavis & Robson 2015;García Bacete et al 2014;Andresen, 2010) and thus on important preconditions of learning processes. Since 2015, the comparative PISA studies have included student's well-being in their surveys.…”

Section: Child Well-being In Educational Researchmentioning

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Visibility and Well-Being in School Environments: Children’s Reflections on the “New Normal” of Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Kost

2023

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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This paper aims to contribute to the theory on school-related well-being by applying a qualitative approach that focuses on children’s experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic and conceptualizes them as an epistemic opportunity to reconstruct aspects of school-related well-being from children’s perspectives. Within the framework of the multinational qualitative study Children’s Understandings of Well-being (CUWB), it conceptualizes well-being as a cultural construct and argues for including children’s voices in the process of knowledge production. By drawing on statements from online interviews with 11- to 14-year-old children from Berlin, Germany in spring 2021 during school lockdown and by using a discourse analytical approach, the paper outlines the findings on visibility as a central feature of well-being in school environments that children make relevant for experiences of agency, security, and self. Visibility in school is constructed as a medium of control that subjects their bodies to norms of the school, exposes the individual to the gaze of others, and provides security in the context of the digital sphere and its temptations. The paper argues to systematically include these reflections and assessments of new digital learning arrangements during the Covid-19 pandemic into theoretical concepts on school-related well-being.

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Section: Child Well-being In Educational Researchmentioning

confidence: 84%

Visibility and Well-Being in School Environments: Children’s Reflections on the “New Normal” of Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Kost

2023

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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“…Previous studies published in this country have reported that socioeconomic status is significantly associated with various developmental aspects, such as cognitive level [ 44 , 45 ] and visual–motor skills [ 15 ]. Indeed, parental employment and their financial involvement in their children’s learning were significantly associated with children’s cognitive levels [ 46 ], reading interests [ 47 ], and academic achievements [ 48 ], contributing positively to children’s development.…”

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Association between Visual Perception and Socioeconomic Status in Malaysian Preschool Children: Results from the Test of Visual Perceptual Skills-4

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Visual perception in children can be evaluated using the Test of Visual Perceptual Skills—4th edition (TVPS-4) with normative data developed for the U.S. population. It is widely used by healthcare practitioners in Malaysia, despite reports that children in Asia outperform their U.S. peers in visual perception assessment. We compared TVPS-4 scores among 72 Malaysian preschool children (mean age: 5.06 ± 0.11 years) with U.S. norms and investigated the association between socioeconomic factors and TVPS-4 scores. Malaysian preschoolers had significantly higher standard scores (116.60 ± 7.16) than the U.S. norms (100 ± 15; p < 0.001). They also had significantly higher scaled scores (between 12.57 ± 2.10 and 13.89 ± 2.54) than the U.S. norms (10 ± 3, all p < 0.001) for all subtests. Multiple linear regression analyses revealed that socioeconomic variables were not significant predictors for five visual perception subtests and the overall standard score. The visual form constancy score could be predicted by ethnicity (β = −1.874, p = 0.03). The visual sequential memory score could be predicted by the father’s employment status (β = 2.399, p < 0.001), mother’s employment status (β = 1.303, p = 0.007), and low household income (β = −1.430, p < 0.037). In conclusion, Malaysian preschoolers outperformed their U.S. peers in all TVPS-4 subtests. Socioeconomic variables were associated with visual form constancy and visual sequential memory, but not with the other five subtests or TVPS-4’s overall standard scores.

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“…In the literature, many researchers state that home educational resources are highly correlated to students' achievement (Boulifa & Abdelali, 2022;Çoban & Kamış, 2019;Kılıç Depren et al, 2017). In addition, home educational resources are highly correlated to students' socio-economic and cultural status as well (Erdem & Kaya, 2021;Munez et al, 2021). Besides, in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage survey conducted by TUİK, it is revealed that %85 of people has an internet connection in Turkey and 62% of them had a fixed broadband (ADSL, cable, optic fibre, etc.)…”

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Absenteeism, Self-Confidence and Academic Performance: Empirical Comparison of Turkey and Singapore

Depren¹,

KALKAN>²,

Depren³

2023

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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<p style="text-align: justify;">In today's World, data-driven methods are behind the determination of potential action plans in every area of life. These data-driven methods help individuals or policymakers to figure out the strengths and weaknesses on the subject that are worked on and to make a comparison to the best practices. Thus, actions can be taken immediately on the specific factors that have a huge impact on the topic investigated. In the educational area, countries are using the same approach to measure, monitor, and improve the quality of education by attending international studies. In this study, for both Turkish and Singaporean students, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model is performed to predict the students' mathematics achievement and to identify factors that have a high impact on achievement using Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 2019 with the data of 3,586 Turkish and 4,750 Singaporean students. The reason behind comparing the results of Turkey to Singapore is that Singapore is the best-performing country in terms of mathematics achievement in the TIMSS in 2019. The model results show that the top two crucial factors in both countries are the frequency of absenteeism from school, and students’ confidence in mathematics with the accuracy of 75%. In addition, relevant policy implications are given based on the importance level of significant factors.</p>

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Socioeconomic status and wellbeing as predictors of students’ academic achievement: evidence from a developing country

Cited by 20 publications

References 63 publications

Visibility and Well-Being in School Environments: Children’s Reflections on the “New Normal” of Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Visibility and Well-Being in School Environments: Children’s Reflections on the “New Normal” of Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Association between Visual Perception and Socioeconomic Status in Malaysian Preschool Children: Results from the Test of Visual Perceptual Skills-4

Absenteeism, Self-Confidence and Academic Performance: Empirical Comparison of Turkey and Singapore

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