Social Dimensions of School Success in Romania: A Comparison with USA Data

By Diana Damean, Maria Roth and Paul Teodor Haragus.

Published by The Learning Collection

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The paper is focused on the adaptation of the School Success Profile (SSP) questionnaire, designed and validated in the USA, to the Romanian context. The Romanian research team assumed that school success in Romania is influenced by similar social-contextual factors as it is in the United States. The paper shortly presents the SSP instrument and compares the results obtained on nationally representative samples in the USA and in Romania. In both contexts, each social environment dimension (school, peers, neighbourhood and family) had a significant effect both on school attitudes and behaviour, and on personal beliefs and well being. Data revealed significant associations between demographic variables (gender, ethnicity, school level, income) and respondents’ school performance.

Keywords:	The School Success Profile, Ecological Perspective, Education, Inequalities

The International Journal of Learning, Volume 17, Issue 8, pp.367-380. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 720.563KB).

Diana Damean

Research Assistant, Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance, Department of Social Assistance, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Diana Damean has a PhD in Sociology. Her areas of interest are education reform, school improvement, school effectiveness, pupils’ school performance, evaluation and quality assurance in education, media and communication and gender studies.

Maria Roth

Professor, Head of Department, Social Work, Babes Bolyai University, Romania

Maria Roth has a PhD in Psychology and is a Professor at the Social Work Department, BBU. Her main research areas are Children and violence, Child welfare, Program and service evaluation, School Social Work.

Paul Teodor Haragus

Lecturer, Social Work, Babes Bolyai University, Romania

Paul Teodor Haragus has a PhD in Sociology and is a lecturer at the Social Work Department, BBU. His main research interests range from the sociology of family and social policies to school performance measurement and educational policies.

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