What Contributes to Low Achievement of Middle School Students: Evidence from Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling

Autor/inn/en	Park, Yujeong; Seo, Dong Gi; Moore, Eric J.; Kim, Byungkeon
Titel	What Contributes to Low Achievement of Middle School Students: Evidence from Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Research, 111 (2018) 4, S.404-416 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0671
DOI	10.1080/00220671.2017.1284040
Schlagwörter	Low Achievement; Middle School Students; Structural Equation Models; Ecological Factors; Psychological Characteristics; Personality Traits; Attention; Depression (Psychology); Socioeconomic Status; Parenting Styles; Peer Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship; Foreign Countries; Predictor Variables; Hypothesis Testing; Surveys; Regression (Statistics); Statistical Analysis; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Ökologischer Ansatz; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Aufmerksamkeit; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Peer-Beziehungen; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Ausland; Prädiktor; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Statistische Analyse; Korea; Republik
Abstract	The authors' purpose was to examine the degree to which low achievement is related to ontogenetic factors (i.e., personal psychological traits expressed as attention and depression) or microsystemic factors (i.e., socioeconomic status, parenting, relationship with peers and teachers), using a total of 721 middle school students in South Korea. Based on the percentile rank, low-achieving students (bottom 15%; n = 323) and high-achieving students (top 15%; n = 398) were grouped, and a multigroup structural equation modeling was employed to determine which ecological factor(s) contribute to predict low achievement of middle school students. Results from multigroup structural equation modeling showed that 3 of the 6 ecological and ontological factors had significant direct or indirect effect on low achievement: socioeconomic status (direct effect), attention (direct effect), parenting (indirect effect). The findings are discussed in terms of the intertwined influences of ecological factors on low achievement, finally leading to the discussion on the limitations and future directions for research. (As Provided).
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