Toward educational equity in China: The relationships between language performance and socioeconomic status at the individual, school, and district levels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbo Wen ◽  
Jianqiang Yang ◽  
Ningning Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Individual School ◽  
The Individual

scholarly journals Pengaruh Faktor Demografi dan Sosial Ekonomi terhadap Status Kesehatan Individu di Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Liani Surya Rakasiwi
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Indonesia Family Life Survey ◽  
Individual Health Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
The Impact

This study analyzed the impact of demography and socioeconomic status on individual health status in Indonesia. The data used Indonesia Family Life Survey 5 (IFLS 5). The study use logit regression model for analysis with health status variable as dependent variable. The other variable such as demography and socioeconomic status as independent variables. Socioeconomic status seen from two measures, namely education and income. The result of this study concludes the demography influence significantly on individual health status in Indonesia. Individual who lives in urban area has higher probability of being health by 1,02 percent compared to individual who lives in rural area. The other variable like socioeconomic status also influences significantly on the individual health status in Indonesia. Individual with longer years of education has higher probability of being health by 3,07 percent compared to individual with less years of education. Individual with high income has higher probability of being health compared to individual with low income.

scholarly journals Optimal Proxy Selection for Socioeconomic Status Inference on Twitter

Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Levy Abitbol ◽  
Eric Fleury ◽  
Márton Karsai
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Predictive Performance ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Combination Methods ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Professional Occupation

Individual socioeconomic status inference from online traces is a remarkably difficult task. While current methods commonly train predictive models on incomplete data by appending socioeconomic information of residential areas or professional occupation profiles, little attention has been paid to how well this information serves as a proxy for the individual demographic trait of interest when fed to a learning model. Here we address this question by proposing three different data collection and combination methods to first estimate and, in turn, infer the socioeconomic status of French Twitter users from their online semantics. We assess the validity of each proxy measure by analyzing the performance of our prediction pipeline when trained on these datasets. Despite having to rely on different user sets, we find that training our model on professional occupation provides better predictive performance than open census data or remote sensed expert annotation of habitual environments. Furthermore, we release the tools we developed in the hope it will provide a generalizable framework to estimate socioeconomic status of large numbers of Twitter users as well as contribute to the scientific discussion on social stratification and inequalities.

scholarly journals High excess mortality during the COVID-19 outbreak in Stockholm Region areas with young and socially vulnerable populations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga ◽  
Davide L Vetrano ◽  
Debora Rizzuto ◽  
Tom Bellander ◽  
Laura Fratiglioni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Viral Spread ◽  
The Individual

AbstractBackgroundWe aimed to describe the distribution of excess mortality (EM) during the first weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Stockholm Region, Sweden, according to individual age and sex, and the sociodemographic contextMethodsWeekly all-cause mortality data were obtained from Statistics Sweden for the period 01/01/2015 to 17/05/2020. EM during the first 20 weeks of 2020 was estimated by comparing observed mortality rates with expected mortality rates during the five previous years (N=2,379,792). EM variation by socioeconomic status (tertiles of income, education, Swedish-born, gainful employment) and age distribution (share of 70+ year-old persons) was explored based on Demographic Statistics Area (DeSO) data.FindingsAn EM was first detected during the week of March 23-29 2020. During the peaking week of the epidemic (6-12 April 2020), an EM of 160% was observed: 211% in 80+ year-old women; 179% in 80+ year-old men. During the same week, the highest EM was observed for DeSOs with lowest income (171%), lowest education (162%), lowest share of Swedish-born (178%), and lowest share of gainfully employed (174%). There was a 1.2 to 1.7-fold increase in EM between those areas with a higher vs. lower proportion of young people.InterpretationLiving in areas with lower socioeconomic status and younger populations is linked to COVID-19 EM. These conditions might have facilitated the viral spread. Our findings add to the well-known biological vulnerability linked to increasing age, the relevance of the sociodemographic context when estimating the individual risk to COVID-19.FundingNone.

scholarly journals Mentoring Nurse Scientists to Meet Nursing Faculty Workforce Needs

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A. Nies ◽  
Meredith Troutman-Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Faculty Mentor ◽  
Research Mentoring ◽  
Individual School ◽  
Faculty Success ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Workforce Needs ◽  
Common Vision

Research indicates that mentoring has been highly effective in promoting faculty success. Strong mentors in the area of scholarship are extremely valuable for junior faculty, not only because of their research and academic expertise but also for their role modeling behaviors. This paper highlights key components of research mentoring used by a senior nursing faculty member. The senior faculty mentor and junior faculty mentee developed a common vision, relating to research interests in health promotion for vulnerable populations. Impact at the individual, school, university, and society level is discussed, and benefits of mentoring to meet nursing faculty workforce needs are emphasized.

scholarly journals Comparative international testing of early childhood education: The democratic deficit and the case of Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Sousa ◽  
Sue Grey ◽  
Laura Oxley
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Individual School ◽  
The Individual ◽  
International Testing

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has a key role in driving educational discourse and global educational governance. Its comparative ‘Programme of International School Assessment’ (PISA) has explicitly linked the knowledge and skills of young people with the economic potential of countries. Through the International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study (IELS), the OECD plans to extend its reach to early childhood education (ECE) by developing metrics to measure ‘quality’ in ECE. This focus gives weight to discourses centred around ideas of ‘what works’. The rhetoric derives from the principles that standards of learning and well-being can be improved by emulating notions of ‘best practice’ identified through comparative data.  This article uses the case of Portugal to illustrate the significant disconnect between the aims and pedagogies of ECE and the increasingly influential de-contextualised discourses concerning ranking, performance and outcomes, as espoused by the OECD IELS project. Using evidence from three diverse Portuguese ECE settings, we illustrate how conceptual understandings of democracy in each school closely reflected the individual school philosophies. We discuss how the dampening of localised realities, for example, through standardisation and de-contextualisation, could lead to a democratic deficit enabled by discourses which displace the purpose, complexity and subjectivity of ECE policy and practice.

Citizen-Initiated Contacting of Government Officials and Socioeconomic Status: Determining the Relationship and Accounting for It

1982 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine B. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Sense Of Efficacy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The topic of citizen-initiated contacting of government officials has received increasing attention, but research has yielded conflicting findings on the relationship of socioeconomic status to contacting behavior. Various studies find that the two are negatively, positively, parabolically, or negligibly related. Data are presented supporting the claim of a positive relationship, and reasons for the conflicting findings are explored. The need-awareness model, associated with the finding of a parabolic relationship between socioeconomic status and contacting at the aggregate level, is tested at the individual level of analysis. While the importance of the need and awareness factors is affirmed, the overall model is not supported. As with other modes of political participation, sense of efficacy is found to be an important predictor of contracting, but the positive relationship between socioeconomic status and contacting remains when efficacy is controlled.

scholarly journals Utilization of Web-Based Services and Applications for Educational Purposes in Vocational Education and Training (VET)

2018 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Kotsifakos ◽  
Dimitrios Magetos ◽  
Christos Douligeris
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Individual School ◽  
On Line ◽  
Analysis Design ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

This paper introduces new web-based tools that can assist the teaching of Informatics courses in a Vocational Education and Training (VET) environment. In order to be able to utilize these tools for educational purposes, a web-based information system needs to be created (analysis, design, implementation, check). Such systems take advantage of already available on-line software which does not require an installation on a localized server, i.e. the installation of software at the individual school Informatics laboratories. This approach meets the educational needs of the courses, and avoids possible costly in terms of time and resources malfunctions. The tools we introduce can thoroughly cover the educational needs of modern Informatics courses which are taught during Vocational Training in accordance with the analytical schedule of the last three grades of Lyceum as well as afterwards.

scholarly journals Sociolinguistic Diversity Can Boost Cognitive Functions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Jue Chang
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Flanker Task ◽  
Set Shifting ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mixing Costs ◽  
Set Shifting Task

This study investigates the link between sociolinguistic diversity and executive functions. 127 healthy adults from Malaysia were recruited to complete three cognitive tasks and the Contextual Linguistic Profile Questionnaire (CLiP-Q). A sociolinguistic diversity score was derived for each participant, with a higher score reflecting a greater exposure and use of diverse languages both at the individual and the societal level. The results demonstrated a sociolinguistic diversity advantage in cognitive functions. Higher sociolinguistic diversity scores were associated with lesser interference in the Flanker task and better accuracy in the 2-back task. Additionally, a significant interaction between sociolinguistic diversity and socioeconomic status was found for the set-shifting task, showing that sociolinguistic diversity could reduce mixing costs and improve set-shifting task accuracy for low socioeconomic status participants who are usually disadvantaged in cognitive control. Thus, it is important for research in the multilingualism field to take sociolinguistic diversity context into account.

Religionsunterricht in Ostdeutschland. Zu alten und neuen Herausforderungen

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Michael Domsgen ◽  
Frank M. Lütze
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Instruction ◽  
Individual School ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Further Development

Abstract Religious education in East Germany is religious education in the plural. Different models stand side by side. Acceptance and structural anchoring in the individual school types also vary. Nevertheless, unifying challenges can be identified that need to be addressed. They make it clear that there is a need for a further development or readjustment of the models of religious instruction that on the one hand satisfies the positionality of religiosity, which is so important from the point of view of religious didactics, and on the other hand is capable of absorbing religious diversity and secularity on the part of students inside.

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