Jascha Dräger
@jaschadraeger.bsky.social
Sociology Postdoc SOEP/DIW Berlin. Social stratification, inequalities in education, wealth, quant methods.
🔍Using linked survey & administrative school data from England & Wales
➡️ Absences in any school year are harmful for GCSE achievement.
➡️ Absences in years 1 and 6-10 are particularly harmful.
➡️ Both authorized (e.g., illness) and unauthorized (e.g., truancy) absences have similar negative effects.
➡️ Absences in any school year are harmful for GCSE achievement.
➡️ Absences in years 1 and 6-10 are particularly harmful.
➡️ Both authorized (e.g., illness) and unauthorized (e.g., truancy) absences have similar negative effects.
July 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🔍Using linked survey & administrative school data from England & Wales
➡️ Absences in any school year are harmful for GCSE achievement.
➡️ Absences in years 1 and 6-10 are particularly harmful.
➡️ Both authorized (e.g., illness) and unauthorized (e.g., truancy) absences have similar negative effects.
➡️ Absences in any school year are harmful for GCSE achievement.
➡️ Absences in years 1 and 6-10 are particularly harmful.
➡️ Both authorized (e.g., illness) and unauthorized (e.g., truancy) absences have similar negative effects.
🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
July 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Using harmonized longitudinal data, we find a stronger growth of SES-achievement gaps in secondary school in Germany and England than in France and the US. Country differences can largely be attributed to between school differences, whereas within school differences are similar across countries.
December 11, 2023 at 8:33 AM
Using harmonized longitudinal data, we find a stronger growth of SES-achievement gaps in secondary school in Germany and England than in France and the US. Country differences can largely be attributed to between school differences, whereas within school differences are similar across countries.