英文摘要 |
Education assistance is an important mean to support socioeconomically disadvantaged students. The study aims to investigate the relationship between various assistances means (i.e., scholarships, tuition and miscellaneous fees exemption, extracurricular involvement and after-class tutoring) and the students' academic performance by applying a longitudinal approach with four-wave panel sample data collected from 5,895 socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Data analysis was performed using the latent growth curve modeling (LGCM). In addition, different students' background and their academic performances are further investigated. The main findings are as follows: (1) In the short term, various education assistances affect students' academic performance; (2) In the long run, after-class tutoring is positively related to change in students' semester grades, while scholarships are negatively related to change in semester grades; (3) The effect of assistance means on students' academic performances is moderated by students' different backgrounds. The study provides practical suggestions for both practitioners and future studies based on the results. |