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The market(able) place of school geography scholarship, 2007–2016
Author(s) -
Taylor Mike,
Page Nick,
Evans Jane,
Foster Jane
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/nzg.12176
Subject(s) - scholarship , exploratory analysis , human geography , geography , exploratory research , sociology , political science , social science , economic geography , data science , computer science , law
This report analyses a decade of geography scholarship student entry and achievement data ( n = 10,205) to reveal patterns and trends of high‐achieving school students. The study is an exploratory analysis, the aim of which is to describe where the greatest scholarship success has occurred, as well as attendant demographic characteristics of New Zealand's most capable geography students and their schools. Emerging from the regions is a localised story of students from an extremely narrow number of schools achieving disproportionate scholarship success. This raises questions in the wider geography teaching community about the possibility of a broader constituency achieving scholarship awards.