Post-school choices: additional short analyses

Publication Details

These four fact sheets are intended to supplement the report Post-school choices by building on the statistical model used in that report but narrowing the focus to look at the post-school choices of these three groups of students

High achieving students.
Māori students.
Students from low decile schools.

In addition, the fourth fact sheet looks at how the number of unit standard credits students attain while at secondary school is associated with their post-school choices.

Author(s): Scott Ussher

Date Published: June 2008

Key Findings

Students who undertook a higher proportion of level 1 unit standards while at secondary school were more likely to participate in industry training, but less likely to participate in bachelors-level study.
Māori male students were less likely than Māori female students to participate in bachelors-level study, holding all other known factors constant. This was not the case for European and Asian students.
High achieving Māori students were more likely than high achieving European and Asian students to participate in industry training rather than bachelors-level study.
Participation in bachelors-level study for Māori males was more sensitive to gaining good results in level 1 NCEA standards than it was for Māori females.
Attaining NCEA level 2 did not increase the likelihood of participating in industry training for students from low decile schools. This was not the case for students from higher decile schools.
The influence of peers was more strongly associated with the post-school choice of students from low decile schools than it was for schools from high decile schools.