Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test- and Teacher-Based Assessments.

ABSTRACT: Qualitative work highlights the significance of students' interactional cultural capital in educational settings-that is, cultural resources that help to navigate/interact with educational institutions and gatekeepers. We make a first attempt to measure expressions of students' interactional cultural capital quantitatively, and examine their relationship with academic performance. Using data on over 1200 Dutch students in their final year of primary school, we find positive associations between several expressions of students' interactional cultural capital (knowledge about the educational system; perceived cultural match between home and school) and academic performance. These positive relationships are equally strong for teacher- and test-based assessments of performance, suggesting that

SUBMITTER: Geven S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12163557 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature