Pathways through Secondary School in a Comprehensive System: Does Parental Education and School Attended Affect Students' Choice?

Autor/in	Chesters, Jenny
Titel	Pathways through Secondary School in a Comprehensive System: Does Parental Education and School Attended Affect Students' Choice?
Quelle	In: International Journal of Training Research, 13 (2015) 3, S.231-245 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1448-0220
DOI	10.1080/14480220.2015.1102467
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Secondary School Students; Vocational Education; Nontraditional Education; Correlation; Social Stratification; Academic Achievement; Grade 9; Grade 12; Statistical Analysis; High School Graduates; Indigenous Populations; Certification; Graduation; Socioeconomic Status; Regression (Statistics); Institutional Characteristics; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Sekundarschüler; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Korrelation; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Schulleistung; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Statistische Analyse; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Sinti und Roma; Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Abschluss; Graduierung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Australien
Abstract	As the Australian labour market restructured during the 1980s and 1990s, Year 12 retention rates more than doubled between 1983 and 1993 secondary schools diversified to include vocational education and training programs as alternative pathways through school. From a human capital perspective, the completion of vocational qualifications in school may represent strategic investments that enhance labour market outcomes. Using data provided by the Education and Training Directorate of the Australian Capital Territory, this paper examines the links between parents' education and pathway through school. The results indicate that stratification within the comprehensive school system sorts students into different pathways according to parental education. After controlling for academic achievement in Year 9, students with lower-educated parents were more likely than those with university-educated parents to undertake a vocational education pathway. Furthermore, level of disadvantage of the school attended in Year 9 exacerbated rather than alleviated the effect of parental education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01