1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«The present paper aims to understand the reasons for[the] noteworthy difference in school performance of the South Asian youth in the French and English sectors [in Quebec].» (p. 691)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«[T]his paper presents the results of a specific data analysis emerging from a wider research project investigating the educational achievement of immigrant-origin students in Quebec (Mc Andrew et al., 2011). […] The data were extracted from province-wide data banks provided by the Quebec Department of Education in 2009.» (p. 695)

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

This study «provide[s] insight into the reasons why [the students of the South Asian community] have a positive graduation rate in the English sector, while in the French, they represent a vulnerable group when compared with their sector’s entire 1st and 2nd generation and 3rd-plus generation student populations.» (p. 706) The findings show that «in Quebec’s South Asian community, the typical “at-risk” student is male, born outside of Canada, and entering the French sector in secondary 1, or during the course of his secondary school studies. This student’s chances of obtaining a secondary school diploma would be even more meager if his family’s socioeconomic status was unfavorable and/ or if he accumulated an additional delay before secondary 3.» (p. 708)