Unique effects of home language on academic achievement among Myanmar students: A home and school perspective

IF 2.6 2区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Studies in Educational Evaluation Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI:10.1016/j.stueduc.2025.101478

Xin Ma , Yanhong Zhang , Malar San , Aye Myint Than Htay , Jing Yuan

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Abstract

Using Myanmar national sample (5707 students from 202 schools) from 2019 Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics, this study discovered unique effects of home language on academic achievement at levels of homes and schools, after control of student and school characteristics. Against the background finding that schools were significantly responsible for academic achievement, there was a lack of interaction effects between socioeconomic status (SES) and speaking Myanmar versus non-Myanmar at home as well as interaction effects between school mean SES and within-school proportion of students speaking Myanmar at home across academic achievement in mathematics, reading, and writing. Speaking Myanmar at a home resulted in significant academic advantage at the home level across mathematics, reading, and writing. Over and above, a higher proportion of students speaking Myanmar at home within a school resulted in significant academic advantage at the school level across reading and writing.

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母语对缅甸学生学业成绩的独特影响：家庭和学校的视角

本研究使用2019年东南亚小学学习指标的缅甸国家样本（来自202所学校的5707名学生），在控制学生和学校特征后，发现了家庭语言对家庭和学校层面学业成绩的独特影响。在学校对学业成绩负有重大责任的背景下，社会经济地位（SES）与在家说缅甸语与不说缅甸语之间缺乏相互作用效应，以及学校平均SES与在家说缅甸语的学生在数学、阅读和写作方面的学业成绩之间缺乏相互作用效应。在家里说缅甸语的孩子在数学、阅读和写作方面都有显著的学术优势。更重要的是，在学校里说缅甸语的学生比例越高，在学校的阅读和写作方面就越有学术优势。

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6.90

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62 days

期刊介绍： Studies in Educational Evaluation publishes original reports of evaluation studies. Four types of articles are published by the journal: (a) Empirical evaluation studies representing evaluation practice in educational systems around the world; (b) Theoretical reflections and empirical studies related to issues involved in the evaluation of educational programs, educational institutions, educational personnel and student assessment; (c) Articles summarizing the state-of-the-art concerning specific topics in evaluation in general or in a particular country or group of countries; (d) Book reviews and brief abstracts of evaluation studies.