Genetic variance in educational performance decreases with increasing school SES, partly independent of parental SES¶
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q2 i? Controlling for parental SES, the genetic moderation by school SES is reduced by 40% but remains statistically significant, indicating school-based processes also play a role. → 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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Final ACE-moderation model (Model 4, Table 2) on the Dutch twin administrative sample. Adding parental SES as moderator reduces the school-SES genetic moderation: "a reduction of 40%", with the remaining effect statistically significant, suggesting school-based processes contribute beyond family SES.
"the genetic moderation effect by school SES becomes smaller in magnitude (a reduction of 40%) but a substantial part remains and is statistically significant"
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Learner Variables¶
- Socioeconomic Status — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
Related Claims¶
- The gene-environment interplay in Dutch educational performance is an SES composition effect rather than a school quality effect — 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
- Non-shared environmental variance in educational performance decreases with increasing school SES, but this moderation appears attributable to 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 — related
- Genetic and environmental variance components of educational achievement decrease with increasing parental SES — related
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Genetic variance in educational performance decreases with increasing school SES, partly independent of parental SES |
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Genetic variance in educational performance decreases with increasing school SES, partly independent of parental SES |
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