Different Students, Different Impacts? Effect of School Characteristics on Disadvantages and Advantages Students’ Learning Outcome
Different Students, Different Impacts? Effect of School Characteristics on Disadvantages and Advantages Students’ Learning Outcome

Summary/Abstract: During the last decades the improvement of school effectiveness is emerging objective of education reform strategies around the world. Increasing emphasis on academic performance gives new importance to investigating factors that contribute to student achieving .While there is a wide literature about complexity of quality and effectiveness of education, the most prevalent analytical approach measure quality of schools on the base of students’ performance or test results. Previous analyses show that student achievement is determined both by individual characteristics and the school resources (including the quantity and quality of teachers) and also the efficiency with which those resources are used. Researches on students’ outcomes reveal that student performance is most influenced by family background around the word, at the same time the extent of this effect can vary among countries, among schools and over times. Past decade researches increasingly focuses on the school-level and system-level factors that can modify effect of family background on students’ educational outcomes.

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