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INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 631-652Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2020.1869996
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Upper secondary education; tracking; academic futility; academic achievement; structural equation modelling
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This research examines the relationship between academic futility and educational outcomes in vocational programmes. The findings suggest that academic futility is prevalent in vocational programmes in the Czech Republic, and it is negatively associated with student achievement. Additionally, classes with higher socio-economic status showed a lower culture of futility.
Research shows that the concept of academic futility is promising for studying the mechanisms that cause differences in educational outcomes in general and vocational programmes. The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that in the Czech Republic, a country with one the largest VET sectors in Europe, the worse achievement of students in vocational programmes can also be explained by academic futility, and to explore the relationship between futility and the track attended. The conceptualisation of academic futility returns to the three-dimensional concept proposed by Brookover and Schneider in 1975. The analysis was carried out on a sample of 4871 upper secondary students. Confirmatory factor analysis showed a good fit of the model for a two-level (student and class) concept of academic futility. Two-level structural equation modelling showed a negative relationship between futility and achievement and a lower culture of futility in classes with higher socio-economic status.
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