Abstract

Studies in different countries comparing the quality of education in private and public schools have used a variety of measurement methods to determine educational quality and findings have been mixed. For the unique situation of Greece, the variable of student admission to the Greek university system, depending on whether the student’s secondary education was in the public or the private system, provides an apt outcome variable to measure relative educational quality. We provide estimates of the effect of private secondary schooling in Greece on students’ admission to their preferred university academic department, using data from nationwide surveys conducted identically in 2000 and 2015. This repeated-measures research design allowed us to compare the same set of factors between the two administrations, thus examining for the stability or change of their contribution over time. Our final sample consisted of 4740 secondary school students. We used a weighted questionnaire to investigate the effect of private schooling on the trajectory to university. In our empirical model, a multinomial logistic regression was performed to classify subjects based on values of a set of predictor variables. Results indicate that attending a private high school offers secondary education students a significantly higher probability of stepping successfully into an academic department of higher relevance to their academic preferences and future career expectations. We also find that private high school education significantly minimizes the efforts required for a student to enter a desirable university department. Positive correlations between the attendance of private high school education and demographic attributes of both students and their families were also found. Research and policy recommendations are included.

中文翻译：

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私立高中出勤是否会影响首选大学的选择？研究视角

摘要

在不同国家进行的比较私立和公立学校教育质量的研究，已经使用了多种测量方法来确定教育质量，并且得出的结论是混杂的。对于希腊的特殊情况，根据学生的中学教育是公立还是私立，希腊大学系统的学生录取变量为衡量相对教育质量提供了适当的结果变量。我们使用2000年和2015年进行的全国范围调查得出的数据，估算了希腊私立中学教育对学生入读其首选大学学术系的影响。这种重复测量的研究设计使我们能够比较同一组因素在两个主管部门之间，从而检查其贡献随着时间的推移是否稳定或变化。我们的最终样本包括4740名中学生。我们使用加权问卷调查了私立学校对大学轨迹的影响。在我们的经验模型中，执行了多项逻辑回归以基于一组预测变量的值对主题进行分类。结果表明，就读私立高中将使中等教育学生成功进入与其学术偏好和未来职业期望相关程度更高的学术部门的可能性大大提高。我们还发现，私立高中教育大大减少了学生进入理想的大学系所需的工作。还发现私立高中教育的就读与学生及其家庭的人口统计学特征之间呈正相关。研究和政策建议也包括在内。