From: School of golden touch? A study of school effectiveness in improving student academic performance
Variable | Mean/percentage (st. d) | Variable | Mean/percentage (st. d) |
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Individual level (N = 9266) | |||
Standard score for the cognitive ability test (grade 8) | .600 (.997) | Male | .521 (.500) |
Standard score for the cognitive ability test (grade 7) | − .046 (.869) | Urban hukou | .472 (.499) |
Value-added of the standard score for the cognitive ability test | .646 (.877) | Single child | .427 (.495) |
Family income | Parents’ occupation | ||
Low income | .214 (.410) | Farmers | .217 (.412) |
Moderate income | .721 (.449) | Clerks | .189 (.392) |
High income | .065 (.247) | Technicians | .159 (.365) |
Parents’ highest education | Professionals and government or state-owned enterprise staff | .247 (.432) | |
Primary school or below | .067 (.250) | Self-employed | .172 (.377) |
Middle school | .404 (.491) | Other | .016 (.126) |
High school | .288 (.453) | Learning habits of the last year | 3.154 (.757) |
Junior college | .105 (.306) | Additional tutoring | .357 (.479) |
Undergraduate and above | .137 (.344) | Learning foundation | 2.056 (.683) |
Class level (N = 291) | |||
Gender of headteacher: male | .364 (.482) | Education level: undergraduate and above | .436 (.497) |
Number of years teaching (year) | 14.667 (7.823) | ||
School level (N = 112) | |||
Period in school (month, second wave) | 17.875 (2.895) | Period between two surveys (months) | 12.982 (.910) |
School ranking | Teaching environment (teacher-student interactions) | 2.579 (.245) | |
Lower middle | .250 (.435) | School time schedule (time in school every day: hour) | 9.757 (1.175) |
Upper middle | .536 (.501) | High school promotion pressure | 1.991 (.411) |
Top | .214 (.412) | School socioeconomic status | .277 (.244) |
School material resources | 8.357 (1.582) | School’s academic level at the time of enrollment (median) | .677 (.079) |
Teacher quality(percentage of teachers with a bachelor degree or above) | .825 (.213) |