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Motives for Primary School Choice: Do they differ between ethnic groups?

Motives for Primary School Choice: Do they differ between ethnic groups?. Claudia Schuchart, University of Wuppertal. Overview. Theoretical assumptions and research questions School choice in North-Rhine Westphalia Data and analytical strategy Research findings Summary and outlook.

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Motives for Primary School Choice: Do they differ between ethnic groups?

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  1. Motives for Primary School Choice:Do they differ between ethnic groups? Claudia Schuchart, University of Wuppertal

  2. Overview • Theoretical assumptions and research questions • School choice in North-Rhine Westphalia • Data and analytical strategy • Research findings • Summary andoutlook

  3. Results from other studies • Different degrees of choice (Söderström & Uusitalo 2005, Burgess et al. 2004) • Parental motives for school choice: • Proximity and average school achievement (Hastings et al. 2005) • Student composition (Bifulco et al (2007, 2008) • Riedel et al (2009): Beeing Turkish (and therefore, a Muslim) has a negtive effect on choice

  4. Research questions • Does the change in the degree of choice have an effect on the individual choice behavior? • What are the reasons lying behind the choices made by Muslim and non-Muslim parents?

  5. Overview • Theoretical assumptions and research questions • School choice in North-Rhine Westphalia • Data and analytical strategy • Research findings • Summary and outlook

  6. School Choice in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) Before 2008 Assigned public school Assigned denom. school other school

  7. School Choice in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) Before 2008 2008 Assigned public school Assigned denom. school Assigned denom. school other school Assigned public school other school

  8. Overview • Theoretical assumptions and research questions • School choice in North-Rhine Westphalia • Data and analytical strategy • Research findings • Summary and outlook

  9. Data description • Two sources: • Official and school statistics • Survey of parents conducted in May 2008 • Effect of change in the degree of choice: statistics • Individual choice behavior: survey data and statistics

  10. T1: Sample description (%)

  11. School structure in NRW Academic qualification Intermediate certificate Lower secondary certificate Academic track school Intermediate track school Basic track school Comprehensive school Primary School (Grundschule)

  12. T1: Sample description (%)

  13. Survey data • May 2008 Telephone survey of parents with preschool children • Questions about choice behavior, family socioeconmic characteristics, neighborhood and parish life • Use of sampling weights

  14. Survey interviews Full sample 08\09

  15. School Choice in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) 2008 Assigned denom. school Choice other school Assigned public school other school

  16. T 2: Sample description (Survey data)

  17. The analytical strategy • Two lines: • Studying choice behavior over the time (official and school statistics) • Explaining different choice behavior of Muslim and non-Muslim parents (survey data) • Method: Linear Regression models. • dependent variable: wether or not parents opt out of the assigned public school

  18. Overview • Theoretical assumptions and research questions • School choice in North-Rhine Westphalia • Data and analytical strategy • Research findings • Summary and outlook

  19. T 3: Results: Correlation analysis

  20. T 3: Results: Correlation analysis

  21. T 3: Results: Correlation analysis

  22. T4: Decision not to attend assigned public school 2007/2008

  23. T 5: Motives for school choice, by ethnic groups

  24. T 6: Motives for school choice, by ethnic groups

  25. Overview • Theoretical assumptions and research questions • School choice in North-Rhine Westphalia • Data and analytical strategy • Research findings • Summary and outlook

  26. Summary and outlook • After the new legislation, Muslim as well as non-Muslim parents choose more often not the assigned public school • However: Muslim parents choose clearly less often a not assigned school than non-Muslim parents • Different values of composition and achievement level of a school: • non Muslim parents: composition and achievement • Muslim parents: achievement, not composition

  27. Summary and outlook • Differences do not explain why Muslim parents do not choose more often a not assigned school • Keys to understand this finding: • Information seeking strategies • neighborhood • Further research: comparing the neighboring cities Solingen and Wuppertal

  28. Thank you for your attention! schuchart@uni-wuppertal.de Presentation based on the paper „Motives by primary school choice“ by Kerstin Schneider – Claudia Schuchart – Horst Weishaupt – Andrea Riedel

  29. T5: Decision not to attend assigned public school 2007/2008by denomination

  30. Sample description (%)

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