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The impact of schools on young people's transition to university

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C<strong>on</strong>tents<br />

Tables and figures 6<br />

Executive summary 8<br />

Introducti<strong>on</strong> 10<br />

Current knowledge about school effects in Australia 11<br />

Analysis 13<br />

Data and sample 13<br />

Multi-level modelling 16<br />

Results 17<br />

TER 17<br />

Further explorati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> influential school attributes 26<br />

Comparing influential school attributes against performance 29<br />

Differentiating the <str<strong>on</strong>g>impact</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>schools</str<strong>on</strong>g> by cluster 33<br />

C<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong> 36<br />

References 37<br />

Appendices<br />

A: Descriptive statistics 39<br />

B: Student-level measures 42<br />

C: Fac<strong>to</strong>r analysis for SES measure 44<br />

D: Fac<strong>to</strong>r analysis for percepti<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> schooling measure 46<br />

E: Technical details <strong>on</strong> multi-level modelling 48<br />

F: Results from multi-level modelling 50<br />

G: Informati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> the Logistic scale 57<br />

NCVER 5

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