Decomposing ethnic differences in university academic achievement in New Zealand
| Autor: | Zhaoyi Cao, Tim Maloney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Higher education
business.industry 05 social sciences Ethnic group 050301 education Face (sociological concept) Sample (statistics) Academic achievement Quarter (United States coin) Education Test (assessment) 0502 economics and business Mathematics education Pacific islanders Demographic economics 050207 economics Psychology business 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Higher Education. 75:565-587 |
| ISSN: | 1573-174X 0018-1560 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10734-017-0157-6 |
| Popis: | We use individual-level administrative data to examine the extent and potential explanations for the relatively poorer academic performance of three ethnic minority groups in their first year of study at a New Zealand university. Substantial differences in course completion rates and letter grades are found for Māori, Pasifika, and Asian students relative to their European counterparts. These large and significant gaps persist in the face of alternative definitions of ethnicity and sample restrictions. We use regression analysis and formal decomposition techniques to test whether differences in other personal characteristics, high school backgrounds, and university enrollment patterns might account for these ethnic disparities in early academic achievement. We estimate that no more than one quarter of the relatively poorer performance of Māori and Pasifika students would be eliminated if they had the same relevant observable factors of European students. Substantial unexplained ethnic differences in early academic performance at university raise concerns about appropriate policies to close ethnic gaps in academic achievement at university. |
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