Ning Xiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5690445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ning Xiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ning |
| FAMILY NAME | Xiang |
| SIGNATURE | XIANG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9830-2749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adolescent mental health and parent engagement in secondary school
Rates of anxiety and depression are rising amongst adolescents, signalling a mental health crisis. High rates of anxiety and depression will increase the risk for adverse outcomes across their life course and put a strain on governments to provide services. While adolescence is a critical developmental stage that is vulnerable to mental health problems, it is also a critical window of opportunity to intervene. Empirical research has shown that st…
Socio-economic status, school performance, and university participation
Despite being a target of various policy interventions across developed countries, disparities in higher education participation among students from different socio-economic backgrounds remain persistent. While previous literature has outlined the processes through which parental resources can shape students’ educational decisions and pathways, the evidence remains scarce on how the effects of social origin on the participation in higher educatio…
Socio‐Economic and Gender Differences in Post‐Secondary Pathways in the UK, Germany, and Australia
This study investigates variations in school‐to‐work transitions (SWTs) by socio‐economic status (SES), gender, and socio‐cultural context. Leveraging data from three nationally representative longitudinal panel studies, we compare the experiences of young people coming of age in the 21st century (2011 to 2023) in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. We examine the role of different support systems that scaffold the SWT process along vario…
School climate, student engagement and academic achievement across school sectors in Australia
Driven by the focus on standardised assessment and performance-driven accountability, a considerable body of literature has documented differences in students’ academic achievement across school sectors, both internationally and in Australia. However, few studies have to date explored the potential mechanisms underlying such differences, particularly through the lens of school climate and student engagement. And despite extensive literature on sc…
Student mental health and dropout from higher education
Understanding the drivers of student dropout from higher education has been a policy concern for several decades. However, the contributing role of certain factors—including student mental health—remains poorly understood. Furthermore, existing studies linking student mental health and university dropout are limited in both methodology and scope—for example, they often rely on small and/or non-representative samples or subjective measures, and fo…
Disparité des trajectoires professionnelles des diplômés australiens en fonction de leur origine sociale
S'il est de plus en plus établi que les études supérieures améliorent les perspectives professionnelles, l'inégalité de leur rendement suscite des inquiétudes croissantes. Les auteurs utilisent un nouveau jeu de données administratives couplées couvrant l'ensemble des étudiants diplômés d'une université australienne entre 2005 et 2011 pour comparer, sur dix ans, la trajectoire professionnelle de publics défavorisés à l'aune de différents critères…
Explaining achievement gaps between students from regional and metropolitan areas
Australian children from regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas exhibit lower educational outcomes than their peers in metropolitan areas. The mechanisms driving the comparatively poorer educational outcomes of children in RRR areas, however, are not well understood. This paper proposes and tests two sets of factors that may be responsible for these disparities: population socio-demographic composition and school climate. Using rich survey and li…
The Impact of Effective Teaching Practices on Academic Achievement When Mediated by Student Engagement
Previous research has proposed a conceptual framework indicating the mediating role of student engagement on the relationship between effective teaching practices and student academic outcomes. This study is the first internationally to empirically test this conceptual framework for the key aspects of teaching practice—effective learning time and expectations for success—using robust, linked longitudinal survey–administrative data from 6825 publi…
Understanding access to higher education amongst humanitarian migrants
Investigating the drivers of higher education expectations among students from low and high socio-economic backgrounds in Australia
Student engagement as a mediator of the effects of socio‐economic status on academic performance among secondary school students in Australia
In this article, we contribute to understanding of the mechanisms through which students’ socio‐economic family background can translate into academic performance by focusing on the concept of student engagement. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from disciplines across the social sciences, and a major nationally representative dataset from Australia, which links survey responses with administrative records on school performance, we conduct a s…
The Australian Retirement Income System
Australia’s retirement income institutions are under scrutiny in response to population ageing and economic uncertainties, like those of many other advanced industrial societies. This article provides an overview of the current system of retirement income institutions in Australia. It places them in the context of Australia’s distinctive welfare state and population ageing patterns, along with retirement patterns. The article describes Australia’…
Student engagement as a mediator of the effects of socio‐economic status on academic performance among secondary school students in Australia
In this article, we contribute to understanding of the mechanisms through which students’ socio‐economic family background can translate into academic performance by focusing on the concept of student engagement. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from disciplines across the social sciences, and a major nationally representative dataset from Australia, which links survey responses with administrative records on school performance, we conduct a s…
The Australian Retirement Income System
Australia’s retirement income institutions are under scrutiny in response to population ageing and economic uncertainties, like those of many other advanced industrial societies. This article provides an overview of the current system of retirement income institutions in Australia. It places them in the context of Australia’s distinctive welfare state and population ageing patterns, along with retirement patterns. The article describes Australia’…
The Australian Retirement Income System
Australia’s retirement income institutions are under scrutiny in response to population ageing and economic uncertainties, like those of many other advanced industrial societies. This article provides an overview of the current system of retirement income institutions in Australia. It places them in the context of Australia’s distinctive welfare state and population ageing patterns, along with retirement patterns. The article describes Australia’…
Student engagement as a mediator of the effects of socio‐economic status on academic performance among secondary school students in Australia
In this article, we contribute to understanding of the mechanisms through which students’ socio‐economic family background can translate into academic performance by focusing on the concept of student engagement. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from disciplines across the social sciences, and a major nationally representative dataset from Australia, which links survey responses with administrative records on school performance, we conduct a s…
Investigating the drivers of higher education expectations among students from low and high socio-economic backgrounds in Australia
The Impact of Effective Teaching Practices on Academic Achievement When Mediated by Student Engagement
Previous research has proposed a conceptual framework indicating the mediating role of student engagement on the relationship between effective teaching practices and student academic outcomes. This study is the first internationally to empirically test this conceptual framework for the key aspects of teaching practice—effective learning time and expectations for success—using robust, linked longitudinal survey–administrative data from 6825 publi…
Understanding access to higher education amongst humanitarian migrants
Disparité des trajectoires professionnelles des diplômés australiens en fonction de leur origine sociale
S'il est de plus en plus établi que les études supérieures améliorent les perspectives professionnelles, l'inégalité de leur rendement suscite des inquiétudes croissantes. Les auteurs utilisent un nouveau jeu de données administratives couplées couvrant l'ensemble des étudiants diplômés d'une université australienne entre 2005 et 2011 pour comparer, sur dix ans, la trajectoire professionnelle de publics défavorisés à l'aune de différents critères…
Explaining achievement gaps between students from regional and metropolitan areas
Australian children from regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas exhibit lower educational outcomes than their peers in metropolitan areas. The mechanisms driving the comparatively poorer educational outcomes of children in RRR areas, however, are not well understood. This paper proposes and tests two sets of factors that may be responsible for these disparities: population socio-demographic composition and school climate. Using rich survey and li…
School climate, student engagement and academic achievement across school sectors in Australia
Driven by the focus on standardised assessment and performance-driven accountability, a considerable body of literature has documented differences in students’ academic achievement across school sectors, both internationally and in Australia. However, few studies have to date explored the potential mechanisms underlying such differences, particularly through the lens of school climate and student engagement. And despite extensive literature on sc…
Student mental health and dropout from higher education
Understanding the drivers of student dropout from higher education has been a policy concern for several decades. However, the contributing role of certain factors—including student mental health—remains poorly understood. Furthermore, existing studies linking student mental health and university dropout are limited in both methodology and scope—for example, they often rely on small and/or non-representative samples or subjective measures, and fo…
Adolescent mental health and parent engagement in secondary school
Rates of anxiety and depression are rising amongst adolescents, signalling a mental health crisis. High rates of anxiety and depression will increase the risk for adverse outcomes across their life course and put a strain on governments to provide services. While adolescence is a critical developmental stage that is vulnerable to mental health problems, it is also a critical window of opportunity to intervene. Empirical research has shown that st…
Socio-economic status, school performance, and university participation
Despite being a target of various policy interventions across developed countries, disparities in higher education participation among students from different socio-economic backgrounds remain persistent. While previous literature has outlined the processes through which parental resources can shape students’ educational decisions and pathways, the evidence remains scarce on how the effects of social origin on the participation in higher educatio…
Socio‐Economic and Gender Differences in Post‐Secondary Pathways in the UK, Germany, and Australia
This study investigates variations in school‐to‐work transitions (SWTs) by socio‐economic status (SES), gender, and socio‐cultural context. Leveraging data from three nationally representative longitudinal panel studies, we compare the experiences of young people coming of age in the 21st century (2011 to 2023) in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. We examine the role of different support systems that scaffold the SWT process along vario…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Academic achievement (4 works)