Revisiting free school meal eligibility as a proxy for pupil socio-economic deprivation
Revisiting free school meal eligibility as a proxy for pupil socio-economic deprivation
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DOI：
10.1002/berj.3260
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Vignoles, Anna
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作者：
Ilie, Sonia;Sutherland, Alex;Vignoles, Anna
某人是否曾在六年内享受过免费校餐（FSM）资格是衡量英国学校系统目前使用的社会经济劣势的标准。它用于监测教育系统中成绩的社会经济差距，识别面临低成绩风险的特定儿童，并向特定儿童和学校提供资金。在本文中，我们评估了与已知影响学生成绩的其他社会经济背景指标（例如父母教育或收入）相比，该指标对学生中学成绩的预测效果。我们询问密克罗尼西亚联邦衡量标准是否足以反映学生在教育背景下的社会经济劣势。为此，我们利用了英国年轻人的纵向研究和匹配的行政数据。我们发现，密克罗尼西亚联邦的资格衡量标准与其他社会经济劣势衡量标准高度相关，但它并没有识别生活在被视为贫困家庭的所有儿童。然后，我们比较了密克罗尼西亚联邦资格衡量标准相对于其他剥夺衡量标准预测教育成就的程度，发现其预测能力仅略低于许多更丰富的调查衡量标准。这为其在政策中的使用提供了一些保证。
Whether someone has ever had free school meal (FSM) eligibility over a six-year period is the measure of socio-economic disadvantage currently used in the English school system. It is used to monitor the socio-economic gap in achievement in the education system, to identify particular children at risk of low achievement and to direct funding to particular children and schools. In this paper we assess how well this measure predicts pupil attainment in secondary school in comparison to other measures of socio-economic background known to influence pupil attainment, such as parental education or income. We ask whether the FSM measure is an adequate proxy for a pupil's socio-economic disadvantage in an educational context. To do this we draw on the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England and matched administrative data. We find that the FSM eligibility measure correlates highly with other measures of socio-economic disadvantage, however it does not identify all children living in what would be deemed deprived households. We then compare the extent to which the FSM eligibility measure predicts educational achievement relative to other measures of deprivation and find that its predictive power is only marginally lower than many richer survey measures. This provides some reassurance on its use in policy.