scholarly journals How School Choice is Framed by Parental Preferences and Family Characteristics: A Study in Poor Areas of Lagos State, Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Dixon ◽  
Steve Humble ◽  
James Tooley
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Parental Preferences ◽  
Lagos State

What Do Parents Want From Schools? Evidence From the Internet

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Schneider ◽  
Jack Buckley
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Choice Behavior ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parental Choice ◽  
Reduced Pressure ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Parental Preferences ◽  
Search Patterns

One of the most contentious policy areas in the United States today is the expansion of school choice. While many dimensions of parental-choice behavior have been analyzed, many of the most enduring questions center on the aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools. Using Internet-based methodological tools, we study parental preferences revealed through information search patterns and compare these findings to the standard ones in the literature, which are based largely on telephone interviews. Based on this evidence we suggest that unfettered choice may lead to undesirable outcomes in the distribution of students, and it may also lead to reduced pressure on schools to improve academic performance.

scholarly journals School choice and post hoc family preference in Spain: Do they match up?

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Jesús Rogero-García ◽  
Mario Andrés-Candelas
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Parental Preferences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
School Preferences ◽  
Family Preference

The process of school choice depends on a wide range of circumstances including those related to the accessibility to schools and parental preferences. This paper has three goals: (1) Identify whether the preferences for the different kinds of schools (public, publicly-funded private, or private) vary according to the family’s traits; (2) estimate the degree of concurrence between the kind of school their children attend and the kind of school the parents prefer a posteriori; and (3) identify which social groups demonstrate lower levels of concurrence. We used a sub-sample of people with children registered in compulsory grades or post-compulsory grades up to university from representative national survey (2012). Results show that post hoc school preferences differ by educational level, economic status, religious orientation, and size of town. Likewise, we find divergences between the school parents prefer and the school their children attend, something that occurs more frequently among those with less economic resources.

scholarly journals Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lex Borghans ◽  
Bart H. H. Golsteyn ◽  
Ulf Zölitz
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
School Quality ◽  
School Characteristics ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Parental Preferences ◽  
Choice Criterion ◽  
School Preferences

Abstract Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters, we estimate models of school demand that incorporate heterogeneity in school preferences. Our results show that traditional measures for school quality matter, but other characteristics, such as school denomination and educational philosophy, are more important predictors of choice. Preferences for these school characteristics are strongly heterogeneous across parents.

scholarly journals School Choice in a Market Environment: Individual versus Social Expectations

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Catalina Canals ◽  
Eric Goles ◽  
Aldo Mascareño ◽  
Sergio Rica ◽  
Gonzalo A. Ruz
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Parental Preferences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Education Markets ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Educational Market

School choice is a key factor connecting personal preferences (beliefs, desires, and needs) and school offer in education markets. While it is assumed that preferences are highly individualistic forms of expectations by means of which parents select schools satisfying their internal moral standards, this paper argues that a better matching between parental preferences and school offer is achieved when individuals take into account their relevant network vicinity, thereby constructing social expectations regarding school choice. We develop two related models (individual expectations and social expectations) and prove that they are driven by a Lyapunov function, obtaining that both models converge to fixed points. Also, we assess their performance by conducting computational simulations. While the individual expectations model shows a probabilistic transition and a critical threshold below which preferences concentrate in a few schools and a significant amount of students is left unattended by the school offer, the social expectations model presents a smooth dynamics in which most of the schools have students all the time and no students are left out. We discuss our results considering key topics of the empirical research on school choice in educational market environments and conclude that social expectations contribute to improve information and lead to a better matching between school offer and parental preferences.

Family Characteristics of Adolescent Violent and Nonviolent Sexual Offenders

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley R. Chapnick ◽  
Charles M. Borduin ◽  
Scott T. Ronis
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Family Characteristics
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