The shape of educational inequality
The shape of educational inequality
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教育不平等的形态
作者：
Christopher L. Quarles;Ceren Budak;P. Resnick
社区大学生的能力是成功的概念化，测量，并显示出指数分布。在美国，尽管有数十亿美元的资金和无数的教育改革，每年仍有数十万学生辍学。现有的研究往往着眼于容易衡量的学生特征的影响。然而，大量难以衡量的学生特质、技能和资源会影响教育的成功。我们提出了一个概念框架的累积效应的所有因素，我们称之为学生资本。我们开发了一种方法来估计学生群体中的学生资本，发现学生资本呈指数分布在140个队列的社区大学生。学生成功的能力并不像智力的标准测试那样表现。相反，它就像一种有限的资源，分布不均匀。结果表明，而不是消除与容易衡量的特征有关的障碍，干预措施应侧重于建立在学校取得成功所需的技能和资源。
The ability of community college students to be successful is conceptualized, measured, and shown to be exponentially distributed. Hundreds of thousands of students drop out of school each year in the United States, despite billions of dollars of funding and myriad educational reforms. Existing research tends to look at the effect of easily measurable student characteristics. However, a vast number of harder-to-measure student traits, skills, and resources affect educational success. We present a conceptual framework for the cumulative effect of all factors, which we call student capital. We develop a method for estimating student capital in groups of students and find that student capital is distributed exponentially in each of 140 cohorts of community college students. Students’ ability to be successful does not behave like standard tests of intelligence. Instead, it acts like a limited resource, distributed unequally. The results suggest that rather than removing barriers related to easily measured characteristics, interventions should be focused on building up the skills and resources needed to be successful in school.
影响因子：
10.5
作者：
Killewald A;Pfeffer FT;Schachner JN
通讯作者：
Schachner JN