The gene-environment interplay in Dutch educational performance is an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect¶
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q2 i? Based on the twin analyses, the authors conclude the gene-environment interplay is an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect, so reducing quality differences between schools alone would likely not reduce educational inequality. → Kim Stienstra 2024
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Kim Stienstra 2024¶
Kim Stienstra, Antonie Knigge & Ineke Maas. (2024). Gene-environment interaction analysis of school quality and educational inequality. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00225-x
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Conclusion drawn from the full sequence of twin ACE-moderation analyses on the Dutch administrative twin sample. The article states the interplay "turns out to be an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect".
"This gene-environment interplay in education turns out to be an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that reducing quality differences between schools would likely not be suf ficient to reduce educational inequality."
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Related Claims¶
- Genetic variance in educational performance decreases with increasing school SES, partly independent of parental SES — related
- Moderation findings are sensitive to the assumed genetic relatedness of same-sex twins: no school-quality moderation at rSSG 0.75 or 0.80, and the gene-SES moderation holds at 0.75 but not 0.80 — related
- School quality does not moderate genetic and shared-environmental influences on educational performance once moderation by school SES and parental SES is considered — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- School quality is positively but weakly associated with Cito performance (b = 0.61, β = 0.06), much more weakly than parental SES (b = 2.89, β = 0.30) — related
- Non-parametric moderation analyses show more genetic variance in the lowest-quality schools, with only the first-versus-fourth quantile difference statistically significant — related
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The gene-environment interplay in Dutch educational performance is an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect |
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The gene-environment interplay in Dutch educational performance is an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect |
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