Delayed tracking and inequality of opportunity: Gene-environment interactions in educational attainment.

Autor: Knigge A; Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.knigge@uu.nl., Maas I; Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.; Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Stienstra K; Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands., de Zeeuw EL; Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Boomsma DI; Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: NPJ science of learning [NPJ Sci Learn] 2022 May 04; Vol. 7 (1), pp. 6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 04.
DOI: 10.1038/s41539-022-00122-1
Abstrakt: There are concerns that ability tracking at a young age increases unequal opportunities for children of different socioeconomic background to develop their potential. To disentangle family influence and potential ability, we applied moderation models to twin data on secondary educational track level from the Netherlands Twin Register (N = 8847). Delaying tracking to a later age is associated with a lower shared environmental influence and a larger genetic influence on track level in adolescence. This is in line with the idea that delaying tracking improves equality of opportunity. Our results further suggest that this is mostly because delaying tracking reduces the indirect influence of family background on track level via the test performance of students. Importantly, delaying tracking improves the realization of genetic potential especially among students with low test scores, while it lowers shared environmental influence on track level for students of all test performance levels.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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