Article: Attainment Gap and Responsible Factors: A quantitative study in Secondary Schools in Cyprus
Authors: Galatia Theodosiou-Zipiti, Iasonas Lamprianou, Mel West, and Daniel Muijs
Published in Intercultural Education, volume 22, Issue 6, 2011, pages 529–544.
DOI: 10.1080/14675986.2011.644954
The authors of the above article would like to draw readers’ attentions to the following:
On page 532, on lines 4–6 of the section ‘Descriptive statistics’ the following sentence should be deleted:
‘The correlation of the overall attainment with ethnicity using the Spearman’s Rho indicated significant attainment differences among ethnic groups (ρ = −0.169, p ⩽ 0.001).’
On page 535, lines 1–2 the following should be deleted:
‘(Spearman’s Rho: ρ = −0.295, p ⩽ 0.001)’.
On page 535, paragraph 1, line 4 the following should be deleted:
‘(Spearman’s Rho: ρ = −0.169, p ⩽ 0.001)’
On page 535, paragraph 2, lines 6–9 the following sentence should be deleted:
‘The correlation of the overall attainment with parental education using the Spearman’s Rho indicated that there were significant attainment differences among children with different parental education (ρ = −0.278, p ⩽ 0.001).’
On page 536, paragraph 1, lines 7–9 the following sentence should be deleted:
‘The correlation of the overall attainment with parental occupation using the Spearman’s Rho indicated significant attainment differences among children with different parental occupation (ρ = −0.294, p ⩽ 0.001).’
On page 536, paragraph 2, line 6 the following should be deleted:
‘(Spearman’s Rho: ρ = −0.078, p ⩽ 0.001)’
On page 538, paragraph 1, line 1 the sentence
‘In terms of generation status, first-generation minorities appeared to have significantly lower average attainment than native students in the first-year group.’
Should read:
‘In terms of generation status, first-generation and second-generation minorities appeared to have significantly lower average attainment than native students in all year groups.’
On page 538, paragraph 1, lines 6–7
‘The attainment of ethnic minority students of first- and second-generation status could partly explain their poor school performance. One would expect children with more experience in the national education system of a country to be more familiar with the local language, while children who migrated recently would probably have more language problems, leading to lower academic achievement.’
Should read:
‘The attainment of ethnic minority students, of first- or second-generation status could be partly explained by the language deficiencies that they usually have. One would expect children who are not very familiar with the local language to have more language problems, leading to lower academic achievement.’
On page 539, paragraph 2, lines 4–10 the following should be deleted:
‘A significant interaction emerged between gender and absenteeism. That is, third-year male students who were absent were significantly less disadvantaged academically compared to female students who were absent. The favourable position of male students can probably be explained by the fact that, on average, females tended to do better than males, and, as such, when females were absent from school they had much more to lose, in terms of attainment, than males.’
On page 539, following paragraph 2, the following should be inserted:
‘The variable school appeared to have a significant effect on student attainment, but no clear pattern was observed among the third-year groups in relation to the six schools examined. It is possible that specific school characteristics might be responsible for this result.’
On page 540, paragraph 1 the following should be deleted:
‘In addition, a significant interaction emerged in the analyses suggesting that being a student in a school with high proportion of minorities had a significantly positive effect on the average attainment of third-year Georgians. Again, this is in contrast to previous studies showing minority concentration having a more negative impact on ethnic minority rather than on majority groups (e.g., Goldsmith 2004).’
Finally, in line with the above correction, the following reference should be deleted:
‘Goldsmith, P.A. (2004). Schools’ Racial Mix, Students’ Optimism, and the Black-White and Latino-White Achievement Gaps. Sociology of Education 77:121–47.’