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Educational engagement, expectation and attainment of children with disabilities : evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study

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Date
11/09/2019
Author
Cox, Fiona McLean
Marshall, Alan David
Keywords
Disability
Education
Health inequalities
Mental health
LB Theory and practice of education
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RJ Pediatrics
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Abstract
Government statistics show that children with special educational needs and disabilities do not achieve as well academically as their peers, which impacts on later employment and socioeconomic circumstances. Addressing these inequalities is a key policy area which currently lacks a satisfactory evidence base. To explore the issue, the present study used data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study which contains data from the 1991, 2001 and 2011 censuses along with other administrative data, from a representative sample of the Scottish population. Using this large and longitudinal sample, the present study examines educational engagement, expectations and attainment for children with self-reported disability, controlling for other early childhood factors. The results show that children with mental health problems were at higher risk of leaving school early, and that children with learning difficulties were less likely to gain advanced qualifications. Neither limiting long-term illness in early childhood or disability in adolescence were significant predictors of engagement, however they did predict measures of academic expectation and attainment. Results suggest there is a critical phase for attainment, with area deprivation in early childhood but not adolescence being important for later educational inequalities.
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Cox , F M & Marshall , A D 2019 , ' Educational engagement, expectation and attainment of children with disabilities : evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study ' , British Educational Research Journal , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3576
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British Educational Research Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3576
ISSN
0141-1926
Type
Journal article
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© 2019 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Census and Administrative data LongitudinaL Studies Hub (CALLS Hub) project (ref ES/K000446/1).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18464

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