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Table 4 Distributional analysis of PISA 2018 reading achievement

From: School socio-economic context and student achievement in Ireland: an unconditional quantile regression analysis using PISA 2018 data

Variable

10th

30th

70th

90th

Est

SE

Est

SE

Est

SE

Est

SE

Disadv. school

− 31.49***

8.83

− 26.42***

6.52

− 20.53***

6.13

− 9.56

6.61

Female

24.94***

5.89

22.44***

4.47

14.09***

4.01

8.18

5.91

ESCS

25.38***

4.23

27.36***

2.91

27.18***

2.90

24.71***

3.43

School year

9.19**

4.55

7.95***

3.06

4.70***

2.92

3.95

3.55

Native

12.04

7.32

10.95**

5.29

9.43**

4.76

4.87

7.06

Tch-directed instruction

− 14.10***

3.86

− 12.74***

2.88

− 10.35***

2.53

− 8.03***

3.05

Teacher support

11.26***

3.09

10.62***

2.42

6.87***

2.48

4.85

3.21

Single-sex sch

− 5.24

8.13

− 3.80

6.99

− 9.45

8.44

− 17.55

12.98

Student-staff ratio

2.80

2.37

2.13

1.54

− 0.77

1.54

− 1.46

2.05

School size

0.02

0.02

0.01

0.01

0.01

0.01

0.02

0.02

Percent SEN students

− 0.25

0.50

− 0.39

0.31

− 0.37

0.24

− 0.43

0.27

Staff shortage

8.25

7.04

8.17

5.01

8.28

5.19

8.52

6.32

Quality of teaching material

− 0.78

6.81

− 8.59

5.89

− 9.06*

5.51

− 10.31

6.83

Secondary school

11.87

7.89

17.43***

6.21

19.51**

7.81

27.90***

10.37

Small town/Rural

2.34

7.42

2.73

5.84

− 2.57

5.97

2.95

8.66

Student behaviour

4.53

4.47

3.86

3.34

0.29

2.91

0.73

3.54

Teacher behaviour

− 3.16

4.77

1.09

3.28

5.67*

3.24

4.83

4.74

Percentage—teachers recent prof. dev

− 0.05

0.08

− 0.08

0.07

− 0.04

0.07

− 0.08

0.09

Parental engagement

0.42**

0.19

0.51***

0.19

0.36**

0.18

0.18

0.32

Constant

240.95***

57.77

340.86***

37.50

510.68***

33.56

593.99

39.91

Observations

4923

 

4923

 

4923

 

4923

 

Adj-R2

0.07

 

0.11

 

0.09

 

0.05

 
  1. Source: Analysis of PISA data for 2018
  2. The table presents estimated coefficients from unconditional quantile regressions of PISA performance in mathematics with results for the 10th, 30th, 70th and 90th percentiles using the REPEST command
  3. ***Denotes statistically significant at 1%; ** denotes statistically significant at 5%; * denotes statistically significant at 10%
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