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

Table 5.

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

Smoking
Drinking
Drugs
S2 S4 S2 S4 S2 S4
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
Full model
School-level variance 0.003 0 0.008 0.012 0.034 0.020
Value-added
OR (CI 95%) 1.39 (1.13–1.70) 1.20 (1.05–1.37) 1.12 (0.97–1.29) 0.98 (0.85–1.12) 1.24 (1.01–1.51) 1.06 (0.92–1.24)
p 0.002 0.008 0.117 0.724 0.038 0.411
Poorer environment
OR (CI 95%) 1.08 (0.87–1.35) 1.09 (0.93–1.28) 1.25 (1.08–1.45) 1.10 (0.96–1.27) 1.01 (0.91–1.33) 1.01 (0.87–1.16)
p 0.480 0.303 0.003 0.169 0.324 0.933
Lower Involvement
OR (CI 95%) 0.95 (0.76–1.18) 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 (0.77–1.09)
p 0.636 0.500 0.356 0.533 0.733 0.319
Disengagement
OR (CI 95%) 1.74 (1.39–2.18) 1.82 (1.52–2.17) 1.58 (1.35–1.85) 1.47 (1.26–1.72) 1.87 (1.53–2.28) 1.59 (1.36–1.86)
p <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Poorer T/P relations
OR (CI 95%) 1.60 (1.31–1.96) 1.40 (1.20–1.65) 1.35 (1.16–1.57) 1.36 (1.17–1.59) 1.34 (1.12–1.61) 1.52 (1.31–1.77)
p <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 0.002 <0.001
Larger School roll
OR (CI 95%) 1.18 (1.00–1.40) 1.02 (0.92–1.13) 1.04 (0.93–1.16) 1.11 (1.00–1.23) 1.14 (0.97–1.33) 1.02 (0.91–1.13)
p 0.054 0.700 0.479 0.044 0.105 0.779
Non-denominational school
OR (CI 95%) 1.24 (0.33–4.70) 1.01 (0.45–2.29) 0.98 (0.40–2.37) 1.77 (0.83–3.79) 2.46 (0.66–9.18) 1.35 (0.60–3.03)
p 0.754 0.975 0.956 0.145 0.182 0.468
Poorer aggregated school-level school ethos
OR (CI 95%) 2.50 (0.75–8.39) 1.04 (0.53–2.05) 0.84 (0.36–1.93) 0.66 (0.34–1.31) 2.15 (0.66–6.96) 1.13 (0.54–2.36)
p 0.137 0.903 0.679 0.235 0.201 0.722
a

Odds ratios [95% confidence intervals] for 1SD increase in value-added scores.