"Priority Education Conventions" (CEP) Program at Sciences Po
Research Team:
Agnès van ZANTEN (OSC and LIEPP)
Project funded by the LIEPP since September 2015
Description of the project:
This research focuses on the evaluation of the "Priority Education Conventions" (CEP) program based on an analysis of the backgrounds and experiences of students admitted to Sciences Po through this procedure. It aims to explore four key questions. The first concerns the discrepancies between the teaching content, the pedagogical practices and the evaluation methods implemented in the CEP upper secondary schools and the academic requirements and practices utilized at Sciences Po and the effects these differences have on the students' pathways and academic experiences. The second relates to the effects of the peer group outside and inside the institution on the academic achievement and educational choices of these students. The third one concerns the impact of student follow-up mechanisms, whether face-to-face tutorials or the online help offered by Sciences Po. Finally, one last question concerns the gender dimension of the pathways and experiences and whether or not there is a specificity of students admitted under the CEP procedure. The research, which is mainly ethnographic (interviews with different types of actors and students, observations), will also include an analysis of statistical data on students' academic background.
At the conceptual level, the project aims to contribute to the development of an approach to the evaluation of education, higher education and equal opportunities policies, with emphasis on:
- The implementation of the programs within institutions, and in particular the way in which specific mechanisms are integrated into the ordinary institutional operation, and the way various institutional actors interpret these mechanisms and their supporting role.
- The perspectives of the participants and their notions evolve following their temporal transition in the program and are differentiated according to the more or less satisfactory character of their backgrounds and their experiences.
In addition, at the political and pedagogical level the project aims to make recommendations, enabling institutional officials to increase the effectiveness of this policy and to reduce its shortcomings or its perverse effects.
Poster of the project - May 2020
Publications :
Agnès van ZANTEN, L'ouverture sociale bénéficie à tous les élèves, in Patrick Rayou (Ed.), L'origine sociale des élèves. Mythes et réalités, Paris : Retz, 2019, p.61-72.
German FERNANDEZ-VAVRIK, Filippo PIRONE, Agnès van ZANTEN, Discrimination positive, méritocratie et inclusion en tension : les "Conventions éducation prioritaire" de Sciences Po, Raisons éducatives, Vol.22, n°1, 2018, p.19-47.
Agnès van ZANTEN, Widening participation in France and its effects on the field of elite higher education and on educational policy, in S.Parker, K.Gulson, T. Gale (Eds.), Policy and Inequality in Education, Singapour : Springer, 2017, p.73-89.
Agnès van ZANTEN, French elite higher education: Facing the challenges of widening participation and globalisation, in C.Corsi, A. Magnier (Dir.), Quaderni Cesare Alfieri, n° spécial "L'Università alla specchio. Questioni et prospettivi", 2016, p.115-136.
Communications:
Congrès International de l'AREF, CO n°258, Les obstacles à l'ouverture sociale de l'enseignment supérieur: le cas des étudiants entrés par la voie Convention Education Prioritaire à Sciences Po du 3 au 5 juillet 2019 à Bordeaux, France.
BERA Annual Conference, Academic Barriers to widening participation in French elites. Disadvantaged students' responses and adaptations to the curricular expectations of history courses at Sciences Po du 11 au 13 septembre 2018 à l'Université de Northumbria à Newcastle, Angleterre.
In the Media :
L’école comme fabrique des inégalités, France Culture, 09/03/2017
Research group recent events
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- Les compétences socio-comportementales prédisent la réussite scolaire
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Publications of the Research Group
- Agnès VAN ZANTEN, Amelia LEGAVRE, Engineering access to higher education through higher education fairs- LIEPP Working Paper, n° 22, April 2014
- Nina GUYON, Elise HUILLERY, Choix d’orientation et origine sociale : mesurer et comprendre l’autocensure scolaire LIEPP Report décembre 2014
- Agnès VAN ZANTEN, Alice OLIVIER, Les stratégies statutaires des établissements d’enseignement supérieur. Une étude des « journées portes ouvertes » , LIEPP Working Paper n°40, novembre 2015
- Yann ALGAN, Elise HUILLERY, Nina GUYON, Comment lutter contre la violence et le harcèlement à l'école et au collège ? LIEPP Policy Brief n°19, juin 2015
- Laura Perna, Improving Higher Education of All Students: Lessons from the United States , LIEPP Working Paper n°48, February 2016
- Nina GUYON, Elise HUILLERY, Biased Aspirations and Social Inequality at School: Evidence from French Teenagers , LIEPP Working Paper, n°44, January 2016
- Nina GUYON, Elise HUILLERY, Track choice and socioeconomic origin: measuring and explaining academic inhibition , LIEPP Policy Brief n°23, february 2016
- Carlo BARONE, Antonio SCHIZZEROTTO, Giovanni Maria ABBIATI, Giulia ASSIRELLI, Gender, information barriers and fields of study choice: a field experiment , LIEPP Working Paper, n°63, January 2017
- Carlo BARONE, Denis FOUGERE, Clément PIN, Social origins, shared book reading and language skills in early childhood LIEPP Working Paper n°93, octobre 2019
- Carlo BARONE, Denis FOUGERE, Clément PIN, La lecture partagée: un levier pour réduire les inégalités scolaires? LIEPP Policy Brief n°44, septembre 2019
- Clément PIN, Evaluation du Plan de simplification pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche LIEPP Report octobre 2019
- Giulia ASSIRELLI, Carlo BARONE, Emilio Chambouleyron, Reka Vonnak Shared Book Reading Interventions and Children's Skills LIEPP Working Paper n°98, december 2019
- Giulia ASSIRELLI, Carlo BARONE, Emilio Chambouleyron, Reka Vonnak Shared Book Reading Interventions and Children's Skills LIEPP Working Paper n°98, december 2019
- Jérôme AUST, Ulrike LEPONT, Les LABEX réinventés les appropriations paradoxales d'un instrument d'action publique en biologie LIEPP Policy Brief, n°42, Juin 2019
- Béatrice BOUTCHENIK, Pauline GIVORD, Olivier MONSO, How do restrictive zoning and parental choices impact social diversity in schools? LIEPP Working Paper n°105, February 2020
- Laudine CARBUCCIA , Interventions to foster academic aspirations adjustment among disadvantaged and female students - A PRISMA systematic review of literature , LIEPP Working Paper n°114, Novembre 2020
- Clément PIN, Évaluation d'un plan national de simplification administrative. Le cas de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche LIEPP Policy Brief n°50, Mars 2021
- Marco OBERTI, Mathieu ROSSIGNOL-BRUNET, Elise TENRET, Pauline BARRAUD DE LAGERIE, Yannick SAVINA Reconfiguration du champ des formations en sciences humaines en Île-de-France : le poids de la sélection LIEPP Working Paper n°121, Juin 2021
- Pauline GIVORD, How age at school entry affects future educational and socioemotional outcomes: Evidence from PISA. LIEPP Working Paper n°120, Mai 2021
- Pauline GIVORD, Qu'est-ce qu'un bon lycée ? Questions de mesure LIEPP Policy Brief n°54, octobre 2021
- Pauline GIVORD, Francesco AVVISATI The learning gain over one school year among 15-year-olds: An international comparison based on PISA Sciences Po LIEPP Working paper, July, 2022
- Per ENGZELL, Bastian BETTHAUSER, Anders BACH-MORTENSEN A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning LIEPP Working Paper n°134, May 2022
- Laudine CARBUCCIA, Carlo BARONE, Coralie CHEVALLIER, Valentin THOUZEAU Unequal access to early childcare : What role do demand-side factors play ? A PRISMA systematic review LIEPP Working Paper n°138, 2023
- Olivier MONSO, Audrey FARGES Fréquenter l'internat à l'entrée du lycée a-t-il un impact sur la réussite scolaire ? Une évaluation sur les lycées publics de l'Éducation nationale LIEPP Working Paper n°141, 2023