Family background, gender and reading achievement in Romania
| dc.contributor.author | Țoc, Sebastian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gheba, Andreea | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-30T08:19:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-30T08:19:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | The authors Sebastian Toc and Andreea Gheba are affiliated to SNSPA, Faculty of Political Science. The article is available on the Sfera Politicii.ro: https://revistasferapoliticii.ro/sfera/pdf/Sfera_184.pdf#page=85 Creative Commons License: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the last years, Romania formally tried to overcome the problems related to inequality of opportunity in education. This paper examines the role of home resources and gender in determining academic performance. Based on secondary data drawn from Progress in International Reading Literacy Study we suggest that both gender and home resources have a significant impact on the reading achievement of students. The existing work operationalizes the differences in reading achievement as an indicator for life chances, being proportional with economic success later in life. Our findings contradict ideas about equality of opportunity promoted by the official curriculum regarding the individual merit as the main factor that places students in privileged social positions. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Toc, S., & Gheba, A. (2015). Family background, gender and reading achievement in Romania 1. Sfera Politicii, 23(2), 83-92. https://revistasferapoliticii.ro/sfera/pdf/Sfera_184.pdf#page=85 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://revistasferapoliticii.ro/sfera/pdf/Sfera_184.pdf#page=85 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://debdfdsi.snspa.ro/handle/123456789/491 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Fundatia 'Orient Expres' | |
| dc.subject | Gender studies | |
| dc.subject | Home resources | |
| dc.subject | Academic achievement | |
| dc.subject | Primary school students | |
| dc.subject | Education system | |
| dc.subject | Romania | |
| dc.title | Family background, gender and reading achievement in Romania | |
| dc.type | Article |