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. 2012 Jul;75(1):69–76. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.045

Table 3.

The influence on substance use of value-added education and pupils' perceptions of school life.a

Smoking
Drinking
Drugs
S2 S4 S2 S4 S2 S4
Individual Adjusted model
School-level variance 0.086 0 0.019 0.028 0.055 0.016
Model VA
School-level variance 0.070 0 0.015 0.028 0.052 0.016
Value-added
OR (CI 95%) 1.28 (1.02–1.61) 1.13 (1.00–1.27) 1.11 (0.97–1.28) 0.94 (0.82–1.09) 1.14 (0.93–1.39) 1.02 (0.90–1.17)
p 0.034 0.049 0.135 0.403 0.197 0.717
Model VA + PP
School-level variance 0.052 0 0.008 0.021 0.052 0.020
Value-added
OR (CI 95%) 1.36 (1.08–1.70) 1.20 (1.05–1.36) 1.14 (0.99–1.30) 0.96 (0.84–1.11) 1.20 (0.98–1.47) 1.06 (0.91–1.20)
p 0.008 0.006 0.065 0.601 0.085 0.542
Poorer environment
OR (CI 95%) 1.11 (0.89–1.39) 1.09 (0.93–1.27) 1.25 (1.08–1.45) 1.08 (0.94–1.24) 1.12 (0.93–1.35) 1.01 (0.88–1.16)
p 0.342 0.291 0.003 0.287 0.233 0.909
Lower Involvement
OR (CI 95%) 0.96 (0.77–1.20) 0.94 (0.78–1.13) 0.93 (0.80–1.08) 0.95 (0.80–1.12) 0.97 (0.80–1.17) 0.92 (0.78–1.09)
p 0.714 0.517 0.344 0.531 0.758 0.338
Disengagement
OR (CI 95%) 1.77 (1.41–2.23) 1.82 (1.52–2.17) 1.58 (1.35–1.85) 1.46 (1.24–1.70) 1.90 (1.55–2.31) 1.58 (1.35–1.85)
p <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Poorer T/P relations
OR (CI 95%) 1.60 (1.30–1.96) 1.40 (1.20–1.65) 1.35 (1.16–1.57) 1.36 (1.17–1.59) 1.33 (1.11–1.60) 1.52 (1.31–1.77)
p <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 0.002 <0.001
a

Odds Ratios (95% confidence intervals) for 1SD increase in value-added scores.