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

Tables and figures
Tables
1 Summary <strong>of</strong> school effects research in Australia 12
2 Results for school-level predictors <strong>of</strong> TER 18
3 Results for school-level predictors <strong>of</strong> university enrolment after
accounting for TER 22
4 Combined statistically significant school attributes by cluster 30
5 Academic and instructional/religious selection criteria 31
6 Sources <strong>of</strong> funding by sector and cluster 32
7 Geographic distribution <strong>of</strong> <strong>schools</strong> by sector 32
8 Geographic distribution <strong>of</strong> <strong>schools</strong> by performance cluster 33
A1 Descriptive statistics for student-level predictors (unweighted) 39
A2 Descriptive statistics for school-level predictors (unweighted) 40
A3 Descriptive statistics for outcome variables (unweighted) 41
C1 Eigenvalues for SES factor analysis 44
C2 One-factor model for SES measure 45
D1 Eigenvalues for perceptions <strong>of</strong> schooling factor analysis 46
D2 One-factor model for perceptions <strong>of</strong> schooling measure 47
F1 Variance components for null and final models across outcomes 50
F2 Results for student-level predictors <strong>of</strong> TER 51
F3 Results for school-level predictors <strong>of</strong> TER 52
F4 Results for student-level predictors <strong>of</strong> university enrolment 54
F5 Results for school-level predictors <strong>of</strong> university enrolment 55
G1 Conversion table <strong>of</strong> logistic scale to linear predictor 57
Figures
1 Variation accounted for by student versus school-level
characteristics (%) 17
2 Explained school-level variation for TER after multi-level modelling 21
3 Distribution <strong>of</strong> school idiosyncratic effects on TER 21
4 Tree diagram for TER 24
5 Tree diagram for university enrolment 25
6 Caterpillar plots <strong>of</strong> between-school differences for TER after multi-level
modelling 27
7 Caterpillar plots <strong>of</strong> between-school differences for university enrolment
after multi-level modelling 28
6 <strong>The</strong> <strong>impact</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>schools</strong> on young people’s transition to university