Educational inequality and COVID-19: who takes advantage of summer schools and other remedial measures? A latent mediation model analysis based on representative data from Austrian parents of school-aged children.

Autor/inn/en	Postlbauer, Alexandra; Helm, Christoph; Große, Cornelia S.
Titel	Educational inequality and COVID-19: who takes advantage of summer schools and other remedial measures? A latent mediation model analysis based on representative data from Austrian parents of school-aged children.
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung, 12 (2022) 2, S. 407-436Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2190-6904
DOI	10.1007/s35834-022-00356-4
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Empirische Untersuchung; Einstellung (Psy); Erwartung; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Herkunft; Bildung; Eltern; Erwartung; Österreich; Wahl; Wert; Soziale Herkunft; Datenanalyse; Ungleichheit; Sommerkurs; Hilfe; Förderungsmaßnahme; Pandemie; Eltern; Pandemie; Datenanalyse; Ungleichheit; Wahl; Hilfe; Sommerkurs; Wert; Österreich
Abstract	In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global crisis with far-reaching effects, not least on education. Since the beginning of the pandemic, its impact on learning losses and increasing educational inequality has been widely discussed. While empirical evidence of rising educational inequality and learning loss is steadily growing, at the same time little is known about the families who are interested in remedial measures like summer schools to bridge the negative effects of the pandemic and school closures. The present study addresses this lack of research by providing an initial examination of the empirical evidence of mechanisms underlying parental choice of remedial measures. We take a closer look on which parents are particularly attracted by remedial measures by using cross-sectional data from a parent survey (N= 3590 parents) in Austria. The findings, illustrated via a series of latent mediation models, indicate that parents' intention to use remedial measures is predicted by parents' attitudes towards the implementation of remedial measures, parents' assessment of their child's learning engagement and of the quality of distance learning during school closures. Moreover, the intention to use remedial measures is significantly influenced by the family's socioeconomic status. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2023/1