School bullying and its effect on children’s academic performance in the Czech Republic
| Název práce v češtině: | Šikana a její dopad na prospěch žáků v České republice |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | School bullying and its effect on children’s academic performance in the Czech Republic |
| Klíčová slova: | šikana, dopad šikany, studijní výsledky, TIMSS 2015, metoda nejmenších čtverců, propensity score matching, average treatment effect, Česká republika |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | bullying, bullying effects, academic performance, TIMSS 2015, ordinary least squares, propensity score matching, average treatment effects, the Czech Republic |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2017/2018 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem |
| Datum přihlášení: | 03.04.2018 |
| Datum zadání: | 03.04.2018 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 11.06.2018 09:00 |
| Místo konání obhajoby: | Opletalova - Opletalova 26, O105, Opletalova - místn. č. 105 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 11.05.2018 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 11.06.2018 |
| Oponenti: | Mgr. Petr Polák, M.Sc., Ph.D. |
| Kontrola URKUND: | |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| UNESCO. (2017). School Violence and Bullying: Global Status Report, UNESCO. Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002469/246970e.pdf
Busch, V., Loyen, A., Lodder, M., Schrijvers, A. J. P., Yperen, T.A., Leeuw, J. R. J. (2014). The Effects of Adolescent Health-Related Behavior on Academic Performance: A Systematic Review of the Longitudinal Evidence. Review of Educational Research. Vol 84, Issue 2, pp. 245 – 274. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654313518441. Czech School Inspectorate. (2016). Tématická zpráva- Prevence a řešení šikany a dalších projevů rizikového chování ve školách. Praha. Oliveira, F.R., et al. (2017). Bullying effect on student’s performance. EconomiA (2017). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econ.2017.10.001. Delprato, M., Akyeampong, K., Dunne, M. (2016). The impact of bullying on students’ learning in Latin America: A matching approach for 15 countries. International Journal of Educational Development. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.10.002. Lisa K. Mundy, PhD; Louise Canterford, MBiostat; Silja Kosola, MD; Louisa Degenhardt, PhD; Nicholas B. Allen, PhD; George C. Patton, MD. (2017). Peer Victimization and Academic Performance in Primary School Children. Academic Pediatric Association. Volume 17, Number 8. Ma, L., Phelps, E., Lerner, J.V., Lerner, R.M. (2009). The development of academic competence among adolescents who bully and who are bullied. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 30 (2009) 628–644. |
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| Research question and motivation
School bullying is a behavioural phenomenon widely recognized as a worldwide problem, attracting attention of many educators and policy makers over the past decades. Global prevalence of school bullying is large, it is estimated that 246 million children and adolescents experience school violence and bullying in some form every year (UNESCO, 2017). One of the major consequences of bullying is its negative effect on children’s learning. In recent years, a number of research papers have been focused on examining the causal effect of peer victimization on academic achievement of students, bringing relatively rich evidence from other countries (Busch et al., 2014). However, there has not been any comparable study presented in the Czech Republic despite the fact that nearly half of all Czech primary schools (47,2%) reported presence of bullying during 2012 – 2015 (Czech School Inspectorate, 2016). Therefore, the aim of my thesis is to comment on risk factors of being bullied and to investigate the possible impact of school bullying on academic performance of primary school’s children in the Czech Republic. Contribution The thesis should broaden the existing research by studying the effect of school bullying on the primary school children’s academic performance in the Czech Republic. The results might be of interest to schools and policy-makers. Methodology The data I am going to investigate in my thesis are cross-sectional data from TIMSS 2015 (the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) and PIRLS 2016 (the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) for the fourth-graders in the Czech Republic. The data about the pupils’ performance in mathematics, science and reading are accompanied by data gathered through context questionnaires, allowing me to study and control other factors affecting the impact of bullying on the academic performance of pupils. I am going to apply an ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation controlled for a number of individual and family characteristics and school fixed effects. Also, I would like to use propensity score matching (PSM) techniques to mitigate the impact of confounding factors. Outline 1) Introduction 2) Literature review 3) Data 4) Methodology 5) Results 6) Conclusion |