The school efficiency crisis beyond its walls: the social, cultural and economic capital's influence in science scholar achievement

Abstract:

We assess how the social, cultural and economic capital of the high school students on a global scale, affect their achievement in science and theorize how these results are related to the educational crisis as predicted by the neoliberal model. We use the results of science in the evaluations carried out by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009 for many countries and relate to levels of cultural, social and economic capital raised from international data. We analyze how each relates to the performance of science in countries in Statistics program. For this, we build figures that relate capital to its performance in science. The results show that economic capital is key to good performance in science, however, only the linkage between all capitals (economic, social and cultural) can provide a more complete explanation of the results.

Keywords:
High school; Science teaching; Neoliberalism; Students' achievement