The impact of course-taking on academic achievements a systematic review and Meta analysis

Boaz Shulruf; Dominic Keuskamp; Dulcie Brake

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.523

The impact of course-taking on academic achievements a systematic review and Meta analysis

Boaz Shulruf, Dominic Keuskamp, Dulcie Brake

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Abstract

Students choose subjects in secondary schools that can be major determinants for their future educational career. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the effect of secondary school course-taking on educational outcomes in secondary and tertiary institutions. The findings of the review and the meta analysis suggest that course-taking predicts a number of educational outcomes such as further course-taking in secondary school, tertiary course-taking, and secondary school grades. However, these effects could not be easily disentangled from the diversity of factors, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES) and prior achievement that are co-correlated with course-taking and its outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages	3401-3406
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.523
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 2010
Event	WCES-2010 - Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → …

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Conference	WCES-2010
Period	1/01/10 → …

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academic achievements
Australia
educational career
Meta analysis
Systematically reviews

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