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

CF Rodríguez-Hernández, E Cascallar… - Educational Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous educational research has extensively investigated the relationship between socio-
economic status (SES) and academic performance. In higher education, however, this …

STEM education

Y Xie, M Fang, K Shauman - Annual review of sociology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially
for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's …

Parental involvement and adolescents' educational success: The roles of prior achievement and socioeconomic status

AD Benner, AE Boyle, S Sadler - Journal of youth and adolescence, 2016 - Springer
Parental educational involvement in primary and secondary school is strongly linked to
students' academic success; however; less is known about the long-term effects of parental …

Koulutuksellinen tasa-arvo, alueellinen ja sosiaalinen eriytyminen ja myönteisen erityiskohtelun mahdollisuudet

V Bernelius, H Huilla - 2021 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Selvityksessä tarkastellaan suomalaisen peruskoulun ja varhaiskasvatuksen tasa-
arvotilannetta erityisesti sosiaalisten ja alueellisten jakojen tuottamien haasteiden …

The undergraduate self-perception of employability: Human capital, careers advice, and career ownership

WE Donald, Y Baruch, M Ashleigh - Studies in Higher Education, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study focuses on the undergraduate self-perception of employability. We aimed to
explore the impact of human capital, which incorporates social capital, cultural capital …

The three generations of cultural capital research: A narrative review

S Davies, J Rizk - Review of Educational Research, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

Scholarly culture: How books in adolescence enhance adult literacy, numeracy and technology skills in 31 societies

J Sikora, MDR Evans, J Kelley - Social Science Research, 2019 - Elsevier
A growing body of evidence supports the contention of scholarly culture theory that
immersing children in book-oriented environments benefits their later educational …

The influence of habitus in the relationship between cultural capital and academic achievement

SM Gaddis - Social science research, 2013 - Elsevier
Scholars routinely use cultural capital theory in an effort to explain class differences in
academic success but often overlook the key concept of habitus. Rich, longstanding debates …

Reading for pleasure and progress in vocabulary and mathematics

A Sullivan, M Brown - British Educational Research Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines inequalities in attainment in vocabulary and mathematics at age 16 for
a nationally representative cohort of people born in Britain in 1970 (the 1970 British Cohort …

From early starters to late finishers? A longitudinal study of early foreign language learning in school

N Jaekel, M Schurig, M Florian, M Ritter - Language Learning, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Foreign language education has now been implemented at the elementary school level
across Europe, and early foreign language education has gained traction following …