The links between a strong academic performance and the environment of schools in Bogotá. Are there differences which are due to the socio-economic level of the student body?

Abstract

This study of academic resilience does not inquire into the heterogeneous links between a strong academic performance and variables in the school environment of students of the low and medium-high Socio-Economic Level (NSE in Spanish), since it has exclusively focused on the students of the lower level. With the aim of filling that gap, this investigation employed multi-level logistical models of a heterogeneous choice, based on a representative sampling of students in the 11th grade in Bogotá. It found that a strong performance in reading was associated with diverse characteristics of the environment of the school and that those links were not affected by the NSE.