Evaluating School Priorities for Equal Opportunity in Admission to Schools

Autor/inn/en	Prieto, Lydia M.; Aguero-Valverde, Jonathan; Flacke, Johannes; van Maarseveen, Martin
Titel	Evaluating School Priorities for Equal Opportunity in Admission to Schools
Quelle	In: Journal of School Choice, 17 (2023) 3, S.404-438 (35 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Prieto, Lydia M.) ORCID (Aguero-Valverde, Jonathan) ORCID (Flacke, Johannes) ORCID (van Maarseveen, Martin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-2159
DOI	10.1080/15582159.2022.2129334
Schlagwörter	Selective Admission; Admission Criteria; Equal Education; Educational Quality; Access to Education; Decision Making; Geographic Location; Family Characteristics; Academic Achievement; Socioeconomic Status; Magnet Schools; Middle Schools; School Choice; Parent Attitudes; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsselektion; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Schulleistung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Elternverhalten
Abstract	Schools' priorities in student selection constitute the basis for fairness in school admissions. We study the case where schools are active strategic players that rank their applicants in terms of priorities. A methodological framework is developed to examine the impact of the variation in the admission settings on the equality of opportunity in access to high-quality schools. The school's priorities are formulated following a Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) approach with several scenarios including geographic, family, academic, and socioeconomic variables. The matching is simulated using student preferences, multiple assignment algorithms, varying school capacities, and changing priority profiles. The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) logistic regression approach is used to examine how far from, or how close the admission is to being an equitable assignment, i.e., one that gives equal opportunities to children with different backgrounds. The analysis is based on choice admission data from a large specialized (magnet) middle school program in Florida. The results suggest that how the school priority is designed slightly affects the equality of opportunity. The second impact is due to the algorithm used to perform the selection. The availability of places in high-quality schools has a big impact and is tightly correlated with the parents' satisfaction with their most preferred school choices. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01