Educational resources in the home
Ethnic differences
Analysis of 2000 PISA reading literacy data by the Ministry of Education found that Māori and Pacific students were much less likely than students of other ethnicities to have access to educational resources in the home.
The analysis also found that where Māori and Pacific students did have access to these resources, this was linked to higher attainment.
These findings were presented by Maree Telford and Shane Martin of the Ministry of Education at the 2004 SPEAR (Social Policy, Research and Evaluation) conference, in a paper entitled Some Factors Underlying High and Low Achievement in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2000) in Reading Literacy.
Note
We encourage you to be cautious about drawing conclusions from comparisons between ethnic groups. Apparent differences (in unadjusted data) between ethnic groups can often be explained by factors other than ethnicity per se, such as the different age, sex, geographical and socioeconomic distributions of different ethnic populations. In addition, datasets vary in the way that they collect and record ethnicity data.
