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Estimating the Importance of Families in Modeling Educational Achievement Using Linked Swedish Administrative Data

French, Robert; Sariaslan, Amir; Larsson, Henrik; Kneale, Dylan; Leckie, George; (2022) Estimating the Importance of Families in Modeling Educational Achievement Using Linked Swedish Administrative Data. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 10.1080/19345747.2022.2054480. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

While the family is a critical determinant of educational achievement, methodological difficulties and the availability of data limit estimation of the family contribution in school effectiveness models. This study uses multilevel modeling to estimate the proportion of variation in student educational achievement between families, family-level intraclass correlation coefficients, and specific family structure effects (family size, birth order, birth spacing, sibling sex ratio). We use cross-classified random effects to account for school and neighborhood variation. We analyze Swedish administrative education records linked with birth records for four academic cohorts of students, with siblings identified from a wider pool of 21 cohorts. We show that almost half of the variation in student achievement described as “between students” in traditional school effectiveness studies would be better described as variation “between families,” suggesting effectiveness research might give greater consideration to family-based interventions in tandem with existing student- and school-based approaches to raising low achievement.

Type: Article
Title: Estimating the Importance of Families in Modeling Educational Achievement Using Linked Swedish Administrative Data
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2022.2054480
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2022.2054480
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Educational attainment, educational achievement, family clusters, family structure, school clusters, neighborhood clusters, multilevel modelling, hierarchical linear modelling
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147662
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