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Highest levels of parental education
As seen in Table STT1.3, 71% of students reported at least one of their parents’ highest levels of education was above secondary education and 56% of students had at least one parent with a university education.
University-level parental education and student performance
This information was compared with student achievement in the PILNA assessments. To simplify the analysis, parents’ highest level of education was grouped into two categories: below university level and university level. Table STT1.4 shows student performance in the PILNA domains by their parents’ highest level of education.
What does this mean?
Grade five students with at least one university educated parent tended to perform better than students without a university educated parent, but there was no difference for grade seven students. Higher levels of parental education may be associated with higher performance at the lower grade level, but not at the higher grade level. Students belonging to families with less education may be at a disadvantage compared to their peers.
