Average educational achievement at age 12 increases with parental SES in the Netherlands¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Mean educational achievement was higher in each successive parental SES group among 12-year-old Dutch twins. → Eveline L. de Zeeuw 2019

Evidence¶

Eveline L. de Zeeuw 2019¶

Eveline L. de Zeeuw, Kees-Jan Kan, Catharina E. M. van Beijsterveldt, Hamdi Mbarek, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Gareth E. Davies, Michael C. Neale, Conor V. Dolan and Dorret I. Boomsma. (2019). The moderating role of SES on genetic differences in educational achievement in the Netherlands. npj Science of Learning 4:13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-019-0052-2

q2 · i? · associational · r3

Descriptive analysis of national EA test scores for 12,889 Dutch twins from 6929 families, stratified into four parental SES groups; the article reports that "the higher the SES, the higher, on average, the mean EA" (Fig. 2, Table 1).

"As expected, the higher the SES, the higher, on average, the mean EA."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

• Genetic and environmental variance components of educational achievement decrease with increasing parental SES — related
• The boys-versus-girls achievement gap narrows and disappears in the highest SES group — related
• Educational achievement is highly heritable, and the common environmental variance is attributable to SES effects — related