Coordinator: Teresa Aguado Odina
Ref: BS02003-04401
Duration: 2003-2006
OBJECTIVES AND TASKS
The initial assumption on which the issue under
study is based is the consideration that education should,
as a priority in the compulsory phase, attend to students’
cultural differences. There are two reasons for this:
first, axiological reasons derived from the principles
held by societies that defend the rights to equality,
equity, and social participation and second, because this
is the guarantee that makes it possible to achieve
essential educational objectives, such as the construction
of one’s own cultural identity and equal opportunity to
gain access to all the socioeducational goods and
resources available.
The objective of the
project is to test a causal explanatory model that
describes the relations between variables related to the
achievement in compulsory education of students belonging
to different cultural groups. The research starts out with
an exploratory model established in previous research
(Aguado and collaborators., 1999) that identifies critical
variables (of context and process) that are related to the
achievement in primary school of students belonging to
different cultural groups.
The causal model is made up
of ten constructs: previous school experience, student’s
level of command of the school language, parents’
educational level, didactic strategies and resources used
in class, student diagnosis and evaluation, teacher’s
teaching and intercultural communication style, overall
performance, student’s specific performance (language,
mathematics, social sciences), student’s intercultural
communication.
The causal model described will be tested with an
application of the LISREL approach, a method whose purpose
is not to discover causes but rather to validate causal
models previously created, based on theory and/or previous
evidence. The application of this approach requires a causal
model to test and the specification of the variables and
constructs that make it up.
PARTICIPANTS
Coordinator:
Teresa Aguado
Research team:
Beatriz Malik, Rosario Jiménez-Frías, Beatriz Álvarez, Belén Ballesteros, Marifé Sánchez, Inés Gil Jaurena, José A. Téllez, Caridad Hernández.
RESULTS
Final report (Cultural diversity and school achievement)
Publications related to the project