The Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육)

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Effects on equity in mathematics education: Multilevel analysis via the PISA 2015

수학교육 형평성에 미치는 학교 영향: PISA 2015를 이용한 다수준 분석

  • Received : 2021.08.08
  • Accepted : 2021.08.23
  • Published : 2021.11.30
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Abstract

The interaction between student and school levels should be considered to understand and examine equity in education. For this reason, we included the socioeconomic composition of schools to scrutinize the equity related to students' socioeconomic status and mathematical literacy in Korea. We applied the hierarchical linear modeling approach to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 data for binational comparison between Korea (5,548 students from 168 schools) and the U.S. (5,217 students from 161 schools). The findings show that school-level achievement and the socioeconomic composition of schools cannot be ignored to understand Korean students' achievement gap between high and low socioeconomic status. In addition, U.S. students from low socioeconomic status were likely to have similar mathematics literacy scores. These findings indicated that inequity in Korean mathematics education could be intertwined with the characteristics of Korean students like high demands for supplementary private education and school characteristics like curriculum selection. This research also reminds mathematics educators that people should not simply mimic other education systems to resolve education issues in their own system.

교육에서 사회경제적 지위에 따른 성취 수준의 차이를 이해하는데 개인배경 뿐만 아니라 학교의 영향력, 그리고 두 요인의 상호작용을 함께 고려하는 것은 중요하다. 이러한 이유로 본 연구는 각 학교에 재학 중인 학생들의 사회경제적 지위의 평균으로 표현되는 학교 수준의 사회경제적 지위를 고려하여, 수학적 소양에서 나타나는 형평성을 분석하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. PISA 2015에 참여한 우리나라 학생 5,548명(168개 학교)과 미국 학생 5,217명(161개 학교)의 자료를 계층적 선형 회귀 분석을 이용해 분석 및 비교하였다. 그 결과, 우리나라의 경우 개인 수준의 사회경제적 지위에 따른 성취 격차보다 학교 수준의 사회경제적 지위에 따른 성취도 차이가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 미국의 경우 대조적으로 개인의 사회경제적 배경이 열악할 때 학교 수준의 사회경제적 지위와 상관없이 기대할 수 있는 수학 성취도 수준이 낮았다. 이러한 결과는 우리나라 학생들의 수학적 성취에 학교 수준의 사회경제적 지위가 추가적인 불평등의 기제로 작용할 수 있음을 시사한다. 국내의 교육현실에서 학교 수준의 사회경제적 지위가 사교육 및 교육과정 선택 등의 이슈와 얽혀있다는 점에서 수학교육에서의 불평등 문제 해결의 실마리를 발견할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다. 또한, 수학 교육자들에게 우리의 문제를 해결하기 위해 단순히 다른 교육 시스템을 모방해서는 안 됨을 상기시킨다.

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