Social Class, Ability and Choice of Subject in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Britain

By H. G. van de Werfhorst, A. Sullivan, Sin Yi Cheung. 2003

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Cross‐national differences in participating in tertiary science, technology, engineering and mathematics education (2005, background): “Based on rational choice theory, Bradley (2000) as well as van der Werfhorst et al. (2003) explained sex and social background differences in study choice by differences in the way male and female students and different social classes prioritize the benefits and drawbacks of various professions…”
• Entrepreneurial potential: The role of human and cultural capitals (2014, background): “Numerous studies indicate that parenting practices, expectations and interaction with children also have strong influences on intellectual and academic performance starting in infancy (West et al., 1998) and serve as a motivational base for continued learning in adulthood (Flouri et al., 2002).”
• Boys’ and girls’ educational choices in secondary education. The role of gender ideology (2016, background): “We controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) because having a higher SES increases a student’s uptake in mathematics and science tracks (Van de Werfhorst, Sullivan, and Cheung 2003).”