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1429781

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-12-8
pubmed:abstractText
The educational attainment of over 2000 children aged 7-15 years from six different ethnic groups was assessed. Children of Pakistani and of Bangladeshi origin tended to obtain the lowest mean scores on all tests, often well below those of West Indian children, who tended to perform as well as Indian children and often no worse than the indigenous majority. There were few signs of any reliable trends over age. Differences were more pronounced on tests of reading and vocabulary than on tests of mathematics but, on tests of non-verbal reasoning, most ethnic minorities also obtained low scores. Many of these differences were associated with differences in social and family circumstances.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9320
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
539-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:otherAbstract
PIP: Researchers analyzed data on 2066 7-15 year old children (6 years 2 months to 16 years 4 months) from 6 ethnic groups attending either primary or secondary schools within a 50-mile radius of Cambridge, England to compare their performance with national norms and with each other and to gather recent data. The ethnic groups included British, Bangladeshi, European (other than UK), Indian, West Indian, and Pakistani. The tests were reading, vocabulary, mathematics, and reasoning tests. The only ethnic group that had mean scores on all tests higher than those of british children was the European group. Yet the differences were not significant. After the British children, the West Indian children received the next highest scores and almost always did better than the Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi children. The Indians generally did better than both the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. West Indian children always did better than Asians on reading and vocabulary tests (even doing better sometimes than the Europeans), yet often did worse than Asians on mathematics and reasoning tests. The difference between West Indian and British children tended to be the same regardless of the test, but Asian children, especially the Indians, tended to receive scores 50% lower than the standard deviation on mathematics and reasoning, but on reading and vocabulary the difference tended to be considerably over the standard deviation. Among 7 and 8 year olds, girls tended to do better than boys, but they did not consistently do better after 8 years old. Among children of at least 15 years old, the Pakistani boys received considerably higher scores than girls on the reasoning test and the West Indian girls received considerably higher scores than boys on vocabulary and mathematics tests. Family size and health and social problems did not affect test scores. Availability of free school meals and father's employment status were significantly associated with all 4 test scores.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Cognitive and educational attainment in different ethnic groups.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't