@article{Volante_Klinger_Bilgili_Siegel_2017, title={Making Sense of the Performance (Dis)advantage for Immigrant Students Across Canada}, volume={40}, url={https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/2557}, abstractNote={<p> <span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">International achievement measures such as the Programme for International Student </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">Assessment (PISA) have traditionally reported a significant gap between non-migrant </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">and immigrant student groups—a result that is often referred to as the </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPS’; font-style: italic;">immigrant performance disadvantage</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">. This article examines first- and second-generation immigrant student achievement results in greater detail across Canada. Overall, Canadian achieve</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">ment results are atypical in relation to the international community in that immigrant </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’TimesNewRomanPSMT’;">student groups significantly outperform non-migrants in some provincial jurisdictions, and also significantly underperform in other provincial jurisdictions, in relation to reading, mathematics, and scientific literacy. This article examines these diverse results in relation to the available literature and offers a conceptual framework that explains the unique case of Canada. The framework highlights the importance of assessing immigrant student achievement by taking into account the level of individual characteristics, provincial policies, as well as sociocultural and demographic contexts across Canada. </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p> </p></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’éducation}, author={Volante, Louis and Klinger, Don and Bilgili, Ozge and Siegel, Melissa}, year={2017}, month={Oct.}, pages={329–361} }