Sociometric popularity in a school context

Vera Titkova (), Valeria Ivaniushina () and Daniel Alexandrov ()
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Vera Titkova: Sociology of Education and Science Lab, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Researcher.
Valeria Ivaniushina: Sociology of Education and Science Lab, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Senior Researcher.
Daniel Alexandrov: Sociology of Education and Science Lab, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Professor

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Abstract: This study investigates how the sociometric popularity of schoolchildren is related to individual academic achievements in a context of different levels of academic culture and educational aspirations in the classroom. The sample includes 5058 students in 270 classes from 98 schools in St. Petersburg. To examine class-level effects, we employ multi-level hierarchical models using HLM 7 software. Different effects for boys and girls were found, indicating that the relationship between academic performance and popularity is gender-specific. The results demonstrate that in classes with a low learning motivation individual academic achievements of boys are negatively related to their popularity, while in classes with a high academic culture the relationship is positive

Keywords: popularity; sociometry; academic culture; motivation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Education / EDU, March 2013, pages 1-30

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