On the 23rd, students of a high school in Seoul are applauding each other for encouragement after receiving their report cards for the college entrance exam. Photo Joint Report
It was found that only 3 out of 100 high school students in Seoul showed excellent academic achievement in low-income families. It is pointed out that related countermeasures are needed as the possibility of class movement through education, which is expressed as so-called’difficulty in the stream’, has become slim.
According to a report by Research Fellow Young-eun Ahn, Research Fellow,’Analysis of the Characteristics and Characteristics of Academic Resilience of High School Students in Seoul by Basic Autonomy District’ on the 27th, the percentage of students with academic resilience among high school students in Seoul in 2016 was 3.53%. A student with academic resilience means a student with a household average monthly income of the bottom 25% and academic achievement in the top 25%.
The percentage of academic elasticity in the first year of high school in Seoul increased from 1.92% in 2010 to 3.75% in 2014, and then slightly decreased to 3.53% in 2016. In particular, the proportion of students with academic resilience was lower in subjects that were more affected by private education. As of 2016, the ratio of students with academic resilience to the total number of students by subject was Korean (4.94%), math (4.24%), and English (3.69%). In the case of English, it can be interpreted that this is because low-income students are more difficult to enter into the academic resilience group than other subjects because the availability of private education, such as early study abroad or English kindergarten, depends greatly on the social and economic background.
It is also worth paying attention to regional academic elasticity. Among the 25 autonomous districts in downtown Seoul, Jongno-gu (7.69%) had the highest percentage of students with academic resilience. Among the low-income students, Yangcheon-gu (26.67%) was the most academically resilient student. On the other hand, the academic elasticity of Gangnam-gu was 1.82% and that of Seocho-gu was 0%. This means that in Seocho-gu, there was no student in the top 25% of the top 25% of their children in the bottom 25% of their families.
It was found that students with academic resilience used private education more than after school. Among the autonomous districts of Seoul, Dongdaemun-gu, Songpa-gu, Yangcheon-gu, and Jongno-gu, which have a high proportion of students with academic resilience, had the lowest after-school participation rate and the highest private education participation rate.
Research Fellow Ahn said, “It is interpreted that after-school schools are not very helpful to students with academic resilience who need to leap to the top and maintain grades.” “By improving the quality of after-school schools and opening various programs, public education is sufficient for low-income students. He pointed out that we need to support so that high-ranking students can be produced.”
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