Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2021, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (8): 116-126.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2021.08.010

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Can School Education Balance Equity and Quality?

Xiaoyu Wei1, Na Su2   

  1. 1. Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China
    2. Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
  • Online:2021-08-01 Published:2021-08-04

Abstract:

Achieving equity and quality is the goal of education policies in various countries. Governments at all levels in China always focus on the development of equity and quality in terms of education. Based on the data of China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), the study uses a hierarchical linear model to explore the relationship between the equity and quality of school education in junior middle school. The results indicate that: from the perspective of quality, after removing the influence of students’ background factors and school composition factors, the promotion effect of each school on the development of students’ cognitive ability is significantly different; from the perspective of fairness, the promotion effect of each school on the development of students of different genders and cognitive ability bases is different; from the perspective of relationship between the quality dimension and the fairness dimension, some schools not only has high performance in promoting the development of cognitive ability of students but also excels at reducing the cognitive gap between students of different gender or cognitive ability.This demonstrates that school education could balance equity and quality.

Key words: educational equity, educational quality, hierarchical linear model