TY - JOUR
T1 - Sense of justice about grades in school
T2 - Is it stratified like academic achievement?
AU - Resh, Nura
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Education is a distinct "sphere of justice" where resources and rewards (educational 'goods') are being constantly distributed, and the fairness of their allocation is being evaluated, eliciting a sense of justice or injustice among the evaluators. A sense of (in)justice is a subjective perception of an individual that the reward s/he receives (actual reward) does not match the reward s/he thinks s/he deserves (just reward). This study investigates students' sense of (in)justice about grades in school, focusing on two questions: (a) What is the level (intensity) of sense of injustice in three subjects: language, mathematics, science (b) Are students' sense of (in)justice stratified by gender and SES, similar to the well known stratification of academic achievement? The study was carried out in Israel in conjunction with PISA international assessment in a national sample of 165 high schools among 4,500 15 year old students.
AB - Education is a distinct "sphere of justice" where resources and rewards (educational 'goods') are being constantly distributed, and the fairness of their allocation is being evaluated, eliciting a sense of justice or injustice among the evaluators. A sense of (in)justice is a subjective perception of an individual that the reward s/he receives (actual reward) does not match the reward s/he thinks s/he deserves (just reward). This study investigates students' sense of (in)justice about grades in school, focusing on two questions: (a) What is the level (intensity) of sense of injustice in three subjects: language, mathematics, science (b) Are students' sense of (in)justice stratified by gender and SES, similar to the well known stratification of academic achievement? The study was carried out in Israel in conjunction with PISA international assessment in a national sample of 165 high schools among 4,500 15 year old students.
KW - Achievement stratification
KW - Distributive justice
KW - Grades
KW - Israel
KW - Schools
KW - Sense of justice/injustice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956287744&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11218-010-9117-z
DO - 10.1007/s11218-010-9117-z
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AN - SCOPUS:77956287744
SN - 1381-2890
VL - 13
SP - 313
EP - 329
JO - Social Psychology of Education
JF - Social Psychology of Education
IS - 3
ER -