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Diversiteit in een Brusselse NL hogeschool: dringend naar de fase van interventies. Eric Depreeuw - K.U. Brussel - HUB Willy Lens - K.U. Leuven Tina Debrabandere. Educational context. Concern about failures and drop out – high cost (personal, societal, financial etc.)
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Diversiteit in een Brusselse NL hogeschool: dringend naar de fase van interventies Eric Depreeuw - K.U. Brussel - HUB Willy Lens - K.U. Leuven Tina Debrabandere Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Educational context Concern about failures and drop out – high cost (personal, societal, financial etc.) Significant differences among ‘groups’: cf. gender, ethnic origin Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Educational context: factors • Macro : SES / Ethnic-cultural • Meso: educational culture • Micro: educational home culture / religion • Language! • Personal: Ability / Skills / Attitudes / Self-confidence / Fear of failure / Vulnerability etc Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Research • Flemish school for Professional Higher Economic Education in Brussels (Professional Bachelor) • 1rst and 2nd year • 2005 – 2006 : Spring • Focus on high % of failures and drop out in segment of students with foreign origin – SFO Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Research Goals 1. Recrutement: diversity? 2. Success and failure: factors of influence 3. Relations between factors and …. Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Research Goals ….eventually… 4. Concluding advices for educational policy and practice ??? Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Definition of SFO: pragmatic Students with foreign origin - SFO? • 1rst generation, born abroad, with other than Belgian nationality • Or parents / grand parents born abroad + conservation of specific characteristics Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Definition of SFO: pragmatic * Skin colour or other somatic aspects: out of choice* Deliberately (+): religion, language, clothing, life style… Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Language at home(Huis van het Nederlands) • Homogeneous Dutch • Multilinguistic: Dutch + other // Other + Dutch • Otherlinguistic: no Dutch at all Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Methodology Questionnaires during class hours on line in computer class instruction and coaching by third author (master thesis) ± 30 minutes Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Questionnaires Q1 Identification + ethnic background and home language(s) Q2 Personal and context (54 items) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Questionnaires Q3 Mastery of Dutch: self evaluation, evaluation by significant others (7 items) Q4 VaSEV – TASTE Test Abilities for Study and Evaluation1. Valuation of studying 2. Self-confidence 3. Fear of failure 4. Lack of effort - procrastination Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Questionnaires Q2 + Q3: factor analysis Q 2 (54 items) and Q3 (7 items) 1. Relation with father (n=14 – 32.3% - alpha .96) 2. Relation with mother (n=13 – 25.9% - alpha .91) 3. Relation with peers (n=9 – 14.8% - alpha .80) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Questionnaires: factor analysis 4. Mastery of Dutch (N=7 – 14.6% - alpha .79) 5. Self-determination in study choice (N=9 – 12.5% - alpha .77) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Sample: participation Sample School %participation N = 287 491 58% 1rst yr 54% 62% 51% 2nd yr 46% 38% 70% F 46% 40% 67% M 54% 60% 53% Belg 82% 75% 63% SFO 18% (25%) 43% Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Sample: participation Sample School (%participation) N = 287 491 (58%) ASO 57% 49% (68%) TSO 43% 42% (60%) BSO 0.35% 8% (3%) Autocht. 82% 75% (63%) SFO 18% (25%?) (43%) Success 78% 58% (78%) Failure 22% 42% (31%) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Students Foreign Origin West – Southern Europe: N = 25 Rest SFO – N = 28 (Morocco 14 / Turkey 3) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Sample: description Language Dutch – 59% Multilinguistic – 23% Other-linguistic – 18% VaSEV – TASTESignificant difference with test norms on IV – 45 vs 40 Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Important remark Sample is underrepresented for 1rst year : 51% males: 53% SFO : 43% BSO : 3% (N = 1) Failure: 31% (versus 78% of success students) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Relation to study success Success School pop Sample Total 58% 78% • Male 53% 74% • Female 67% 82% • Autocht 65% 82% • SFO 39% 57% Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Relation to study success Success School pop. Sample Total 58% 78% • ASO 75% 85% • TSO 49% 67% • BSO 3% 100%! Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Relation to study success: research sample only LanguageDutch 84%Multi-linguistic 78%Other-linguistic 56% Differences continue in 2nd year (but Multi > Dutch: 96% vs 87%) SFO - W and S Europe: 60% SFO – Other: 54% Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Relation to study success Relation father: NS Relation mother: NS Relation peers: .03*success ~~ better peer relation Self-determination NS Mastery Dutch : .0011**(*) Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Relation to study success • VaSEV – TASTE Valuation ns Self-confidence .02* Fear of failure ns Lack of effort .0001*** Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Specific interrelations • VaSEV III - Fear of failure~ language : p .012* Dutch 51 – ML 56 – OL 64 • VaSEV II - Self-confidence~ gender: p .012* Male 54 – Female 62!!!~ secondary school: p .016* General 62 - Technical 54 Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Regression analysis 262 cases – model predicts exact result in 78% of casesR-square = 0.15 of 15% variance explained Contribution to prediction of failureSecondary school: Bêta 11.1 ***Ethnicity Bêta -1.0 *Language Bêta -0.4 (.07) Lack of effort Bêta 0.3 *** Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Policy and practice? • Underrepresentation rates in sample = significant information: first year, males, SFO, BSO and at later failures • Expected differences in success rates are confirmed: gender, former education, ethnic background, mastery of language, self confidence, effort Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Policy and practice? • Expected differences in success rates not confirmed: relation with father and mother, valuation and fear of failure Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Policy and practice? • Expected differences in success rates not confirmed: relation with father and mother, valuation and fear of failure Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007
Policy and practice? • UCLA – AAP: Pedagogy of excellence? • Qualitative pilot projects with output evaluation • Association KU Leuven: coordination of diversity projects: OOF-project – Tellen en Meetellen Depreeuw – Lens - Debrabandere – Diversiteit HO - VFO 2007