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"Major international and national tests show rural students, on average, do not
do as well at school as their city peers.
This includes lower scores on NAPLAN and the Programme for International
Student Assessment (PISA).
For example, in the 2018 PISA test, Australian students outside cities
performed at lower levels in reading literacy, mathematical literacy and
scientific literacy. Their average performance was between two-thirds of a year
and almost two years behind metropolitan students.
Most of the studies looking at rural students have focused on primary school
students. And most conflate rurality with low socioeconomic status.
In our new research, we looked at New South Wales Year 12 Higher School
Certificate results in standard and advanced English and maths. We controlled
for students’ social background characteristics to test if it is socioeconomic
status (SES) or a rural location that impacts student results.
SES measures a parents’ level of education and so, indicates a student’s
familiarity with finishing school, going to university or other forms of
educational attainment."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
