Michael Sciffer is a PhD candidate at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. His research focuses on the causes and outcomes of school segregation in Australia and internationally. He is a teacher and school counsellor working in a range of public schools in rural New South Wales.
Experience
–present
PhD Candidate, Murdoch University, Murdoch University
Education
2014
University of Wollongong, Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology
Publications
2022
The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition, Large-scale Assessments in Education
2022
Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?, Comparative Education
2021
Appropriate modelling of school compositional effects: a response to Malatinszky and Armor, and Marks, British Journal of Sociology of Education
2020
Critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?, British Journal of Sociology of Education