Beyond school performance. An analysis of PISA 2006 from an intersectional perspective.
One of the central questions in recent discussions about Swedish school is those factors that influence school performance. Socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, birth country are some aspects that are mentioned in many international and national studies. Swedenis one of the participants in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the results ofPISA since 2000 show deteriorated results in reading performance, mathematics and science among 15-year-old students. In order to set school performance in a broader context we analyzed data for the Swedish part of PISA 2006, in which 57 countries (of which 30 OECD-countries) participated, with some multivariate methods from an intersectional perspective. Our analysis of PISA 2006 show complexity of different social, economic and cultural factors for students´ school performance which strengthens even by the preliminary results from PISA 2009 presented when we finished our analysis. Further, our results show that students´ school performance have connections also with social inequality in Swedish society.