- VOLUME
- Vol. 17 | (1)
5. KJEP Vol.17 No.1_Urban zoning and inequality in access to literacy.pdf
- TITLE
- Urban zoning and inequality in access to literacy: A case study of Kazakhstan
- KEYWORDS
- Reading Literacy, Urban Zoning, Kazakh, Russian, English
Abstract
The aim of the article is to find out the presence vs. absence of influence of the location and types (private and state) of secondary schools on reading literacy in Kazakh, Russian and English. Statistical analysis of 297 questionnaires of ninth grade students of the state and private schools of Almaty city was done. Four parameters of variable correlations were used: Pearson linear correlation coefficient (chi-square); p-level; comparison of the expected and obtained results, and median of levels of reading literacy in Kazakh, Russian and English. The research identified complex and coherent mutual relationships between social and economic inequality, and reading literacy. Social and economic inequality made a current and prolonged influence on the condition of the educational process.
DOI: 10.22804/kjep.2020.17.1.005