Hanna Ayalon
Biographic Data
| ID | 217176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Ayalon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayalon |
| SIGNATURE | AYALON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1992-7001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Immigrant Selectivity and Educational Outcomes of Immigrant Children
Despite much research on immigrant selectivity, little attention has been given to its temporal dimension. Thus, while immigrant selectivity has been theoretically identified and empirically demonstrated, it has been viewed as a relatively stable social occurrence. The study reported in this paper examined temporal changes in immigrant selectivity using an extensive dataset on migration from the former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel between 1989 an…
Child’s age at migration, high school course-taking and higher education
College gender composition and bachelor's degree completion
Women are now the majority in undergraduate studies in many higher education systems, yet men and women tend to enrol at different rates in different fields of study and institutions. As a result, gender segregation is a prominent feature of contemporary higher education. Most previous studies have focused on gender composition in fields of study. In contrast, we considered college-level study in the Israeli context and asked whether composition …
Institutional Selectivity, Curricular Policy, and Field of Study Stratification in Expanded Higher Education Systems
The Short Term Effects of Immigrant Students on the Educational Achievements of Native‐Born Students
Since 1989 nearly one million immigrants from the FSU have arrived in Israel. Although well‐educated on average, most of these immigrants lacked economic means. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether the presence of immigrants in schools affected the educational achievements of their Israeli‐born peers. We analyzed data pertaining to 8,288 Israeli tenth graders who attended 208 schools in 1994. Respondents' records were obtained f…
Ethno-Religious Differences in Israeli Higher Education
The worldwide expansion and diversification of higher education systems has sparked growing interest in the stratification of students according to higher education institution and field of study. This article focuses on Israel, where higher education has experienced significant expansion and diversification during the past two decades. Using generalized ordered logistic regression models, the study analyses vertical and horizontal ethno-religiou…
Educational standardization and gender differences in mathematics achievement
For-Profit Mid-Career Programmes as a Second Chance
Diversification and Inequality in Higher Education
This article explores how the structure of higher education in the United States and Israel mediates the relationship among race/ethnicity, social origins, and postsecondary outcomes. On the basis of differences in how the two systems of higher education have developed, the authors anticipated that inequality in college attendance will be greater in Israel, while inequality in the type of college or university one attends will be greater in the U…
CHAPTER TWO Israel
Stratification and Diversity in the Expanded System of Higher Education In Israel
Field of Study and Students' Stratification in an Expanded System of Higher Education
The paper examines the hypothesis that the opportunities that the expansion and diversification of higher education open to members of disadvantaged groups depend on field of study. The study is based on a survey conducted in 1999 on a sample of 4061 Israeli freshmen in the research universities and the academic colleges, which are often perceived as the second tier of higher education. Using multinomial logistic regression we compared socio-demo…
Educational Reforms and Inequalities in Israel
Israeli secondary school students sit for national matriculation examinations that result in their receiving either a plain or a university-qualifying diploma. During the 1990s, the Ministry of Education implemented policies that were designed to raise eligibility rates for the diploma. This article evaluates the consequences of these policies for gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities in the odds of obtaining the two forms of the diploma…
Women and Men Go to University
Gender Inequality in Leadership Positions of Teachers
By integrating individual and contextual approaches, the present study examines gender differences in appointment to leadership positions in schools in three different educational sectors in Israel. Based on a sample of 10,733 Israeli high school teachers in two Jewish educational sectors and one Arab educational sector, we performed a set of multinomial logistic regressions. The main findings indicate that gender has an independent influence on …
Math as a Gatekeeper
Using multilevel analysis on a sample of Israeli academic-track twelfth graders in 1989, the article examines between-school variation in gender and ethnic inequality in course taking of two scientific subjects, physics and biology. The main findings are that (1) the sciences are taken less often by students of the underprivileged Jewish ethnic group, and this inequality is more acute in schools that use math as a filter, and (2) physics is taken…
Monopolizing Knowledge? The Ethnic Composition and Curriculum of Israeli High Schools
Using multinomial and simple logistic regressions, the study presented here examined the availability of 12 school subjects in Israeli academic high schools that are differentiated by their ethnic composition. It found that academic subjects that are classified as more prestigious are offered less often at the highest curricular level in schools that are dominated by students of the underprivileged Jewish ethnic group. Thus, curricular decisions …
Learning to labour or labouring to learn? Curricular stratification in Israeli vocational high schools
Educational Opportunities and Occupational Aspirations
This article proposes that the study of early career formation has failed to notice that inequalities in educational opportunities may generate alternative patterns of occupational aspirations. In particular, standard scales of aspirations cannot identify the economically ambitious who aim at occupations that generate high income but require low education. This type of ambition is likely when schooling cannot function as an effective means of mob…
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship
Debates over the forms and levels of ethnic pluralism and the relationship between class and ethnicity in the Israeli Jewish population provide the background of an analysis of friendship networks of four groups of origin, two from the Middle East and two from Europe. It is shown that, whereas only small minorities have homogeneous networks based on country of origin, the broad ethnic division between 'Middle Easterners' and 'Europeans', and the …
Class consciousness in Israel
This study investigates dimensions of class consciousness (cognitive, affective, evaluative) in Israel and analyses their relationships to alternative and overlapping objectively conceived class classifications. Variance in a number of interrelated cognitive dimensions was found to be mainly associated with class classifications that focus on work-occupational situations, but none of the affective/evaluative dimensions were found to have a unifor…
Class Consciousness in Israel
Field of Study and Students' Stratification in an Expanded System of Higher Education
The paper examines the hypothesis that the opportunities that the expansion and diversification of higher education open to members of disadvantaged groups depend on field of study. The study is based on a survey conducted in 1999 on a sample of 4061 Israeli freshmen in the research universities and the academic colleges, which are often perceived as the second tier of higher education. Using multinomial logistic regression we compared socio-demo…
Educational Reforms and Inequalities in Israel
Israeli secondary school students sit for national matriculation examinations that result in their receiving either a plain or a university-qualifying diploma. During the 1990s, the Ministry of Education implemented policies that were designed to raise eligibility rates for the diploma. This article evaluates the consequences of these policies for gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities in the odds of obtaining the two forms of the diploma…
Women and Men Go to University
Ethno-Religious Differences in Israeli Higher Education
The worldwide expansion and diversification of higher education systems has sparked growing interest in the stratification of students according to higher education institution and field of study. This article focuses on Israel, where higher education has experienced significant expansion and diversification during the past two decades. Using generalized ordered logistic regression models, the study analyses vertical and horizontal ethno-religiou…
Diversification and Inequality in Higher Education
This article explores how the structure of higher education in the United States and Israel mediates the relationship among race/ethnicity, social origins, and postsecondary outcomes. On the basis of differences in how the two systems of higher education have developed, the authors anticipated that inequality in college attendance will be greater in Israel, while inequality in the type of college or university one attends will be greater in the U…
Educational standardization and gender differences in mathematics achievement
Stratification and Diversity in the Expanded System of Higher Education In Israel
Math as a Gatekeeper
Using multilevel analysis on a sample of Israeli academic-track twelfth graders in 1989, the article examines between-school variation in gender and ethnic inequality in course taking of two scientific subjects, physics and biology. The main findings are that (1) the sciences are taken less often by students of the underprivileged Jewish ethnic group, and this inequality is more acute in schools that use math as a filter, and (2) physics is taken…
Monopolizing Knowledge? The Ethnic Composition and Curriculum of Israeli High Schools
Using multinomial and simple logistic regressions, the study presented here examined the availability of 12 school subjects in Israeli academic high schools that are differentiated by their ethnic composition. It found that academic subjects that are classified as more prestigious are offered less often at the highest curricular level in schools that are dominated by students of the underprivileged Jewish ethnic group. Thus, curricular decisions …
Institutional Selectivity, Curricular Policy, and Field of Study Stratification in Expanded Higher Education Systems
Educational Opportunities and Occupational Aspirations
This article proposes that the study of early career formation has failed to notice that inequalities in educational opportunities may generate alternative patterns of occupational aspirations. In particular, standard scales of aspirations cannot identify the economically ambitious who aim at occupations that generate high income but require low education. This type of ambition is likely when schooling cannot function as an effective means of mob…
Class Consciousness in Israel
The Short Term Effects of Immigrant Students on the Educational Achievements of Native‐Born Students
Since 1989 nearly one million immigrants from the FSU have arrived in Israel. Although well‐educated on average, most of these immigrants lacked economic means. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether the presence of immigrants in schools affected the educational achievements of their Israeli‐born peers. We analyzed data pertaining to 8,288 Israeli tenth graders who attended 208 schools in 1994. Respondents' records were obtained f…
Gender Inequality in Leadership Positions of Teachers
By integrating individual and contextual approaches, the present study examines gender differences in appointment to leadership positions in schools in three different educational sectors in Israel. Based on a sample of 10,733 Israeli high school teachers in two Jewish educational sectors and one Arab educational sector, we performed a set of multinomial logistic regressions. The main findings indicate that gender has an independent influence on …
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship
Debates over the forms and levels of ethnic pluralism and the relationship between class and ethnicity in the Israeli Jewish population provide the background of an analysis of friendship networks of four groups of origin, two from the Middle East and two from Europe. It is shown that, whereas only small minorities have homogeneous networks based on country of origin, the broad ethnic division between 'Middle Easterners' and 'Europeans', and the …
College gender composition and bachelor's degree completion
Women are now the majority in undergraduate studies in many higher education systems, yet men and women tend to enrol at different rates in different fields of study and institutions. As a result, gender segregation is a prominent feature of contemporary higher education. Most previous studies have focused on gender composition in fields of study. In contrast, we considered college-level study in the Israeli context and asked whether composition …
Learning to labour or labouring to learn? Curricular stratification in Israeli vocational high schools
Class consciousness in Israel
This study investigates dimensions of class consciousness (cognitive, affective, evaluative) in Israel and analyses their relationships to alternative and overlapping objectively conceived class classifications. Variance in a number of interrelated cognitive dimensions was found to be mainly associated with class classifications that focus on work-occupational situations, but none of the affective/evaluative dimensions were found to have a unifor…
Class Consciousness in Israel
Educational Opportunities and Occupational Aspirations
This article proposes that the study of early career formation has failed to notice that inequalities in educational opportunities may generate alternative patterns of occupational aspirations. In particular, standard scales of aspirations cannot identify the economically ambitious who aim at occupations that generate high income but require low education. This type of ambition is likely when schooling cannot function as an effective means of mob…
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship
Debates over the forms and levels of ethnic pluralism and the relationship between class and ethnicity in the Israeli Jewish population provide the background of an analysis of friendship networks of four groups of origin, two from the Middle East and two from Europe. It is shown that, whereas only small minorities have homogeneous networks based on country of origin, the broad ethnic division between 'Middle Easterners' and 'Europeans', and the …
Learning to labour or labouring to learn? Curricular stratification in Israeli vocational high schools
Monopolizing Knowledge? The Ethnic Composition and Curriculum of Israeli High Schools
Using multinomial and simple logistic regressions, the study presented here examined the availability of 12 school subjects in Israeli academic high schools that are differentiated by their ethnic composition. It found that academic subjects that are classified as more prestigious are offered less often at the highest curricular level in schools that are dominated by students of the underprivileged Jewish ethnic group. Thus, curricular decisions …
Math as a Gatekeeper
Using multilevel analysis on a sample of Israeli academic-track twelfth graders in 1989, the article examines between-school variation in gender and ethnic inequality in course taking of two scientific subjects, physics and biology. The main findings are that (1) the sciences are taken less often by students of the underprivileged Jewish ethnic group, and this inequality is more acute in schools that use math as a filter, and (2) physics is taken…
Gender Inequality in Leadership Positions of Teachers
By integrating individual and contextual approaches, the present study examines gender differences in appointment to leadership positions in schools in three different educational sectors in Israel. Based on a sample of 10,733 Israeli high school teachers in two Jewish educational sectors and one Arab educational sector, we performed a set of multinomial logistic regressions. The main findings indicate that gender has an independent influence on …
Women and Men Go to University
Educational Reforms and Inequalities in Israel
Israeli secondary school students sit for national matriculation examinations that result in their receiving either a plain or a university-qualifying diploma. During the 1990s, the Ministry of Education implemented policies that were designed to raise eligibility rates for the diploma. This article evaluates the consequences of these policies for gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities in the odds of obtaining the two forms of the diploma…
Field of Study and Students' Stratification in an Expanded System of Higher Education
The paper examines the hypothesis that the opportunities that the expansion and diversification of higher education open to members of disadvantaged groups depend on field of study. The study is based on a survey conducted in 1999 on a sample of 4061 Israeli freshmen in the research universities and the academic colleges, which are often perceived as the second tier of higher education. Using multinomial logistic regression we compared socio-demo…
Stratification and Diversity in the Expanded System of Higher Education In Israel
CHAPTER TWO Israel
Diversification and Inequality in Higher Education
This article explores how the structure of higher education in the United States and Israel mediates the relationship among race/ethnicity, social origins, and postsecondary outcomes. On the basis of differences in how the two systems of higher education have developed, the authors anticipated that inequality in college attendance will be greater in Israel, while inequality in the type of college or university one attends will be greater in the U…
For-Profit Mid-Career Programmes as a Second Chance
Educational standardization and gender differences in mathematics achievement
Ethno-Religious Differences in Israeli Higher Education
The worldwide expansion and diversification of higher education systems has sparked growing interest in the stratification of students according to higher education institution and field of study. This article focuses on Israel, where higher education has experienced significant expansion and diversification during the past two decades. Using generalized ordered logistic regression models, the study analyses vertical and horizontal ethno-religiou…
The Short Term Effects of Immigrant Students on the Educational Achievements of Native‐Born Students
Since 1989 nearly one million immigrants from the FSU have arrived in Israel. Although well‐educated on average, most of these immigrants lacked economic means. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether the presence of immigrants in schools affected the educational achievements of their Israeli‐born peers. We analyzed data pertaining to 8,288 Israeli tenth graders who attended 208 schools in 1994. Respondents' records were obtained f…
Institutional Selectivity, Curricular Policy, and Field of Study Stratification in Expanded Higher Education Systems
College gender composition and bachelor's degree completion
Women are now the majority in undergraduate studies in many higher education systems, yet men and women tend to enrol at different rates in different fields of study and institutions. As a result, gender segregation is a prominent feature of contemporary higher education. Most previous studies have focused on gender composition in fields of study. In contrast, we considered college-level study in the Israeli context and asked whether composition …
Child’s age at migration, high school course-taking and higher education
Immigrant Selectivity and Educational Outcomes of Immigrant Children
Despite much research on immigrant selectivity, little attention has been given to its temporal dimension. Thus, while immigrant selectivity has been theoretically identified and empirically demonstrated, it has been viewed as a relatively stable social occurrence. The study reported in this paper examined temporal changes in immigrant selectivity using an extensive dataset on migration from the former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel between 1989 an…
Sociology (19 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Mathematics (11 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Higher education (9 works) · Mathematics education (9 works)